Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl Victory Parade Leads to 24,000 Absences from School

February 11, 2016   ·   Kyle Newport   ·   Jump to comments

There's no denying that a child's education is important, but sometimes, there is an event that will lead to a lifetime memory and makes it worth missing a random Tuesday of school.
Sports may be games, but a championship celebration doesn't happen every year in most cities.
Just look at Kansas City last year. Back in November, some Kansas City-area schools recognized that and gave students and faculty a day off so they could celebrate the Royals' first World Series title in 30 years at the victory parade.
Those schools realized they were going to have an enormous amount of absences, so they just closed for the day. This past Tuesday, every school in Denver would have been better off doing the same.
According to the Denver Post's Yesenia Robles, Denver Public Schools announced that 24,152 of 90,234 students (roughly 27 percent) were absent—both excused and unexcused—for at least one period on the day of the Broncos' Super Bowl 50 par...

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