where have all the students gone?

Yesterday the rumor was that the attendance office reported 780-odd absences on the day of the bomb threat, over half of Capital's student body. But in The Olympian, the official estimate was 20 percent. Why the discrepancy?

It's not that Capital's administrators aren't trustworthy, or the Daily O misreported the story. Early in the day, about twenty out of thirty students per class showed up. I checked sixth period's attendance list around 9:00, and only about five students out of thirty were marked "excused absent." By the time the last class rolled around, though, well over half of the students had disappeared, and at least fifteen were now marked "excused."

I'd figure, then, that the Olympian got called in the middle of the day, right when absenteeism hovered at a fifth of the population.

Moral of the story: don't trust the liberal media.