SNOW DAY SPRING MAKE UP DREW POOR TEACHER AND STUDENT ATTENDANCE

So it only took a month of requests, but the school district finally released the attendance figures for April 25, 2014, the extra day added into spring break to make up for too many snow days.

As we predicted, it found that nearly one out of four teachers, or 24%, missed school that day and some 42.1% of students, or two out of five, skipped class.

In raw numbers, that means 126 of the 527 teachers did not show up and 2,861 of the district's 6,795 students ignored the extra day. Perhaps the state, which forces the practice by disallowing days to be added at the end of the year if they change graduation day, can look at this and see what a stupid practice it is. 

The school district, which made us file a public records request for the information that it had just handed over in the past, spelled it out in a letter below. The letter that also could have used spell check.