KUSA – Hundreds of thousands of people flooded Civic Center Park Tuesday to bask in the glory of the Denver Broncos Super Bowl victory.
So perhaps it’s no wonder that more kids than usual took a day off from school.
According to Denver Public Schools, 24,152 kids had an excused or unexcused absence from class on Tuesday.
For context, the district serves more than 90,000 students – so almost a third of kids were absent for at least part of the day.
The 24,152 kids who missed class on Tuesday is 10,000 more than the number who were absent last Wednesday – and 9,268 more than were gone on Monday.
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