Perfect attendance defined my high school years. In retrospect, I was philosophically deciding each day - “should I go to school and maintain my perfect attendance or should I commit suicide… I think I’ll maintain my perfect attendance”. The scary thing is: philosophy was not offered as a subject at my high school. However, I was recognized for my perfect attendance each semester with my name in the school bulletin. At least, now, I can point to my high school diploma, smile, and say “I did it.”
Sorry I sneezed at ya, Queen Tonya.
School’s main mission is to prepare students for the work world, and you’re expected to show up at work.
(sneezes all over etv78)
Sorry, dude. I should have called in.
I don’t recall ever having perfect attendance in any year. I usually got sick once and then violin stuff was good for 2-3 (excused) absences a year.
Senior year second semester I had a lot of absences. 3 days for college visits, 5 days for violin stuff, and then my school had a policy where seniors taking 5 or more AP/IB exams were excused from the day of the first exam through the day of the last exam, so many of us essentially missed the entire month of May. I think I must have had 15-20 absences. All excused. No one cared.
The end of senior year was the biggest waste ever. I think in one class the teacher just gave us the TV remote and told us not to get too loud. No wonder people stopped showing up.
Apology accepted! BTW, VIOLENTLY ill people, whose illness makes it difficult/impossible to function SHOULD stay home obviously. But minor sniffles, and non-contagious illness, minor injuries need to be “sucked up” and you should go to work.
I had perfect attendance at both primary (grade) school and secondary (high) school and seem to recall I got some random piece of paper for it, at least in primary school. It was hardly exciting or useful though, and I doubt the school got anything from it either.
More strangely, I am now 35 and have been working professionally for 14 years solid since Uni* and in all that time I have yet to take a sick day from work! Either I’m really that guy from Unbreakable, or I’m just an unlucky sucker who only gets sick when on holiday. Still, wish I worked in one of those firms that rewards non-taking of sick days with some sweet financial benefits.
- I can’t quite say the same for my attendance record at Uni, but girls & beer prevailed…
My son had perfect attendance from K-5. When he woke up one day in grade six not feeling well neither of us gave his attendance record a moment’s thought.
There was a girl in my sister’s grade who was never absent, but she did come to school like death warmed over a few times, and forced herself to stay long enough to be counted present (the cutoff was 11:45 or something like that).
A boy in my grade had perfect attendance for all of his school years, but I don’t remember him ever seeming like he shouldn’t have come in.