It’s bad enough that the Monday after the Super Bowl isn’t a national holiday, but the following story makes even less sense in my mind.
According to the Denver Post, 24,152 enrolled students in Denver area school districts, which makes for about 26 percent, were absent on Tuesday, the day of the Denver Broncos Super Bowl 50 victory parade.
Denver Public Schools released numbers Wednesday showing 24,152 students had an excused or unexcused absence from one class period or more on Tuesday. That is about 26 percent of the 90,234 students enrolled in Denver schools.
It was 9,268 more than were gone Monday.
Late Tuesday, Jeffco schools reported 21,902 students, or a quarter of the district’s enrollment, missed one class period or more Tuesday. That was 6,701 more than were gone Wednesday last week and 5,481 more than were gone Monday.
It has been estimated that over 1,000,000 people attended the parade. According to Wikipedia, the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 2,754,258. I’m certainly not one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, but even I can figure out that’s over 1/3 of the region’s population.
School should have been canceled, plain and simple.
