Archbishop: teacher quarantine request was wrong

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz says the decision by a Catholic school to ask a teacher to quarantine herself after a mission trip to Africa was "not the right judgment."

The school, St. Margaret Mary in eastern Louisville, had asked Susan Sherman to submit to a 21-day quarantine after her return from Kenya, which is far removed from the Ebola epidemic in western Africa.

Sherman resigned her teaching job last month.

Kurtz said Thursday the school "made some very prudent judgments in the midst of an awful lot of confusion at the time." He says he would be open to Sherman returning to teach at the school. Kurtz says he regrets any pain that has been caused to the Sherman family.

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