MISD schools and offices will reopen  Jan. 19, after a two-day shutdown that extended the MLK weekend. An uptick in cases of COVID-19 in students and staff across the district and lack of classroom substitutes and bus drivers prompted the temporary closure. This news came as a shock to some, a sigh of relief to others and the rest puzzled. “The district felt giving everyone five days off would give us all enough time to rest and heal,” Dr. Shelly Butler, principal, said. “I knew that [closing the schools] was a possibility. We've been monitoring the number of subs needed at our campus. Also, by watching neighboring school districts maneuver through the same decision-making process we were in, I felt like this would happen to MISD as well.” Even though schools won’t be returning...