The Royals Win the World Series- Stay

Imagine the cheering, crowded masses of people, sea of royal blue and the Royals themselves. Now, imagine being stuck in school while this is happening.
“I’d say about half for the student body and only a couple of the staff was gone,” said Natalie Patton, mathematics teacher.
Patton said the parade affected the students who didn’t attend.
“I wasn’t able to move on to new material,” Patton said.
Freshman Katie Rogers was in Patton’s class the day of the parade.
“We worked on missing assignments because there weren’t many people in our class,” Rogers said. “I am glad I stayed at school because I had an opportunity to get my work done.”
Sophomore Carrie Short said she experienced minimal class activity as well.
“All of my classes had a maximum of 11 students,” Short said.
Short said the school atmosphere was very different with more than half of the student body gone.
“It was a lot quieter, it kind of felt empty,” she said.

Out of 800,000 people attending the Royals Parade on Nov. 3, senior Zane Clark was not one of those in the crowd.
“My largest class of the day was probably Physics with nine people,” Clark said. “My smallest class was gifted with only four.”
Clark said he stayed at school because of football.
“If I would have gone to the parade, I wouldn’t have been able to go to football practice,” he said. “Plus there are only so many games left this season.”
Junior Cole Decker said he decided not to go to the Royals parade simply because of school.
“I’m not a fan of massive crowds, plus I had a better view of the parade on TV so I won’t really regret not going either,” Decker said.
Though Clark and Decker said they will not regret not going to the parade, senior Eric Haefele said he will.
“I just didn’t go, but it would have been really fun so I will regret not going,” Haefele said

Callie Rolf, attendance secretary, said 385 students were not at school on Nov. 3.
“On average there where about seven people per class,” said freshman Jackson Macfarlane.
Jackson said he decided not to go to the parade.
“I’m glad I stayed,” he said. “From what I heard, it was crowded and some people didn’t leave until 8 at night.”
Sophomore Colton Gleghorn came to school because he had to attend football practice.
“Coach Dumpert made us; he wanted to make sure we would make it [to practice] on time,” Gleghorn said.
Some of the teachers had so few students in class, they didn’t want to move on to new material.
“My Health and Wellness class walked to McDonald’s because Mrs. Wulfkuhle didn’t want to teach,” said junior Brittany Feugate.

Juniors Ethan Palsmeier and Blaine Hanf, and senior Emma Ure, also chose to attend school as usual.
“I didn’t see the point in attending the parade,” Palsmeier said. “I didn’t want to be mobbed by 800,000 people, plus I was afraid my teachers would assign homework while I wasn’t there.”
Palsmeier said he thought more students should have considered school a priority.
“A lot of students around here don’t really care about their schoolwork,” he said. “It gets frustrating after a while with all the work, but it is work that is going to be necessary to get on with your future.”
Hanf said he didn’t attend the parade because football coach Mike Dumpert told all his players not to go.
“We have to be here for the last two hours of the day to be able to go to practice,” he said.
Hanf said he felt as if it was a waste of his time to come to school.
“I had three people in my English class and five in my math class,” he said. “Nobody was here and we didn’t really do anything all day.”
Senior Emma Ure said although she is happy the Royals won the World Series, she didn’t feel the need to attend the parade.
“I just didn’t feel the need to go be with that many people,” she said.
Ure said school should have been canceled.
“We didn’t do anything all day,” she said. “Most of the classes were just sitting there and talking.”
Ure said she thinks school wasn’t rescheduled so the kids who wanted to come would have the opportunity.
“For those of us who actually do come and show up, we had the ability to learn something,” she said.