Perfect Attendance Myth?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm new to this site....but it seemed like a good place to clarify this.</p>

<p>Someone told me last week that if you have had perfect attendance from elementary school all throughout high school, you will receive a certificate of some sort with the President of the U.S.'s signature. Is this true? I Googled it up and didn't see anything on this, but I thought it could be a new thing that came into effect just recently, or....yeah.</p>

<p>Random: When do the UC's (UCI) send out their appeals decisions?</p>

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<p>who told you that? lol</p>

<p>can’t verify if it’s true</p>

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<p>Just one of my friends, I said that I had perfect attendance all these years and he got excited and told me that. I’m still not sure, although my school has told all of the 4-year perfect attendees to tell the office so we’d be “recognized” at graduation.</p>

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<p>How would that even be possible, to not miss a single day of school from K-12 grade. I would give that person a freaking day off, not an award.</p>

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<p>I have perfect attendance too, but I don’t think we get anything for it. Lame. But still, it’s an accomplishment.</p>

<p>Yay for dedication!</p>

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<p>Some schools recognize perfect attendance, but it’s not something that the President is personally involved in.</p>

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<p>I would have had perfect attendance, but I missed a day because of pink-eye in the 6th grade. </p>

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<p>Anyways, here we just get a page in the yearbook. Not sure if anything happens in graduation.</p>

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<p>I don’t think this should be rewarded. Students should not come to school when sick.</p>

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<p>^^ nightpwnsj00, how did you get crap in your eye?</p>

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<p>I’ve gotten ridiculously lucky and have only gotten sick over breaks. I’ve never once been sick (during high school and junior high at least) during the school week. <3 my immune system</p>

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<p>perfect attendance K-12 is just sad. and freakishly scary.</p>

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<p>Well, then that’s not a problem. But there’s no reason for being rewarded even in that situation. The general impact is still a perverse incentive.</p>

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<p>@SheenR - I just remember that I caught it from my neighbor’s kid. I remember insisting to go to school that day, too. </p>

<p>I hate catching up in my classes, so I don’t miss school. I don’t get seriously sick either, mostly just the occasional cough or runny nose. Believe me, if I was contagious, my mom would never have let me go to school, despite my protests. =)</p>

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<p>I’m offended.</p>

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<p>This really isn’t something to be rewarded. Beyond sickness, involved students should occasionally miss school for other reasons (tournaments, etc.).</p>

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<p>Nonono,
I read a news article where this girl had perfect attendance K-12, and got on the newspaper. Then she received a special letter from the amused Mr.President. I think this is where this came from.
Will EVERYONE who has perfect attendance receive this letter? I don’t think so.</p>

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<p>@kameronsmith - Whenever I had to miss a day due to an extracurricular, it was considered an educational absence, and thus not counted.</p>

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<p>Schools discourage this because they don’t want kids to come to school sick just to have perfect attendance. No awards. No recognition.</p>

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<p>@nightpwnsj00: Heh. My school doesn’t have “educational absences” — either you’re absent or you’re not.</p>

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<p>At our school, there’s this graduation award you can get but you have to get 95% attendance to be eligible.</p>

<p>Nobody in the top 4 is eligible.</p>