For the first time in 30 years, the Kansas City Royals have won the World Series in 4 games to 1.

In Kansas City fashion, the Royals took game 4 by not giving up. Mets pitcher Matt Harvey had been dominating the entire game with his performance, but when he came back for the ninth inning, the Royals tied the game at two.

We go to extras, and in the twelfth inning, the royals get five runs and win it 7-2.

All of Kansas City was electric. The game went very late, and students and teachers alike were exhausted the next day, with plenty of students arriving late due to sleeping in. It is difficult to learn in this sort of environment. If De Soto High School had not had school, we would not have had this problem.

However, we can still redeem ourselves.

The celebratory parade is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and many students and teachers plan on attending. During first block of the day after the royals clinched, I personally heard teachers panicking because it was being called a “high usage day” for substitutes. This means that too many teachers  had already called in for subs. Because there would not be enough substitute teachers, the teachers could not attend.

Keep that in perspective. Less than 12 hours after the royals won, that many teachers had already called in for subs to go to the parade. The unlucky few who didn’t get the chance to call in yet are stuck.

De Soto High School should cancel school for the parade, so students and teachers could stop stressing out about missing school, and simply enjoy the Royals win.

If they used a snow day or something similar (I, for one, would personally trudge through some snow in January if it meant seeing the parade tomorrow), students would not have to worry about missing classes, and teachers would not be bitterly longing to be outside of their classroom.

Learning in this atmosphere will be difficult, and actually having school would be practically useless anyway. Useless because teachers with subs usually leave students movies to watch and busy work to do because subs can’t actually teach the class for them.

Additionally, if DHS cancelled school, students would not have to worry about making up the work they would miss and attempt to understand a concept on their own.

It’s been thirty years. Teachers and students should be able to miss school for an occasion like a parade for the hometown team winning a World Series. Especially since we never know when we will get to witness another World Series victory parade.

It’s been thirty years. Have a heart.