They have provided 200 meals to the neighborhood, financed by the Evanston Community Fund. The loss of all those potential customers half a block away is having an impact on merchants near ETHS.Īt the Litehouse Restaurant in the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center, owner Tanisha Ford noted “it’s pretty empty.” Ford usually had a good lunchtime crowd from ETHS, but as of around 1pm today, all she had received were a couple of pickup orders.Īnd at the C&W Market and Ice Cream Parlor, owned by Clarence Weaver and his wife Wendy, Clarence said his business model was built on foot traffic from the high school, but now “that traffic is gone.” Since the pandemic began, however, C&W has found an opportunity to help the community and the store as well. The last “normal” attendance figures show an average of 92 per cent for the class of 2019 over all for the years that class spent at ETHS. The numbers may be skewed because the last day for seniors was May 14. During the first two weeks of the shutdown, attendance was not even taken, and after that, there was no punishment for not showing up.ĭata obtained from ETHS by Evanston Now shows the school averaged 80 percent attendance in April and May, based on students who checked in on line. A through F are back.Īttendance will also mean something. And unlike in the spring, grades will actually mean something.ĭue to the shutdown, the state “strongly advised” that no F’s be given, nor anything else which would lose a student’s overall grade.

Teachers spent much of the summer polishing their computer teaching skills. ETHS officials promise e-learning will be better this semester than in the spring, when changes had to be made on the fly.

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