cases after schools opened. are you worried what could happen if you lifted these mandates in your district? >> so we are seeing the improvement in our covid cases, and we are having the opportunity to not have to quarantine as many students. we are still worried because 11 and under, the age group, they do not have access to the vaccine yet, and we don't want to risk it. we're almost at the end of this. as our doctors have pointed out, we're in the fourth quarter. this is not the time for us to quit. we need to finish game. our board members have added an additional four weeks to our masking for our children in middle school and elementary school. and we are allowing a parent option for our high school students. so we're slowly transitioning out, but we don't want to, you know, stop before we're finished and we want to make sure we have