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Yeah- award effort and improvement and kindness. Things a child actually can have some level of control over.

Perfect attendance is stupid. I missed out on perfect attendance last year because I had COVID.

These stupid awards encourage sick kids to come to school sick and get everyone else sick. Yeah - good job, Sarah. You're a real hero...

Many schools have stopped this thankfully

I will never understand grading attendance with school children, who have absolutely no control over: getting sick, parent having car trouble, school bus running behind, death in the family, doctors appointments, etc. I actually received a detention in fourth grade over it. Utterly ridiculous.

Encouraging parents and students to spread disease to vulnerable classmates - classy..

They're acting like no one can miss school for any genuine reason, like I'm sorry I had to get tested for learning disorders, it's not my fault I have them.( I had a perfect attendance before that happened)

They do it for the National Honor society turds! Who else gets those but them! I refered to them as. The Teachers Suckup awards! Said heck with that and went fishing instead! Sure my parents beat n punished me for it. But they did not have a problem eating any of the fish? You are just being a good supportive mother. And the world needs a lot more of that! They are jerks and don't realize it! If they were giving out awards for imperfections those jerks would be in line for one just as much as anyone else!

We used to give out the perfect attendance certificates at the annual Honors Night, a ceremony which is held in the evening. No perfect attendance winner ever showed up to accept it. (We discontinued the award.)

You go mom!

Absolutely despise the whole concept. I used to work with a kid who bragged that he had perfect attendance from kindergarten through high school. Said if he was sick, he came to school anyway, then went home after attendance. I said, "great, now you've possibly gotten several other kids sick." This is encouraged in the work place too, people are shamed for taking a sick day, or only get a couple a year, so they come in sick. NO! I don't want whatever you have. Do the responsible thing and STAY TF HOME!

Attendance prizes in general are stupid. Do you want people to go to school or work sick and spread it to everyone? No? Then stop punishing people who take off for being sick.

I used to have to have a lot of "mental health days" off. because the school couldn't be arsed to stop people bullying me. so it was THEIR fault I needed days where I didn't go, not mine.

I hated attendance awards at school. My first year in high school my mother died. I had a half day off for her funeral so didn’t get it.

With so many kinds of families too I wish they would broaden ( not remove) mothers/Father’s Day or dances or events with just “Special adult in your life” which can include moms and dads but then kids can bring or make a gift for any positive adult in their life or if they have no one they can make teacher something fun. My daughter made a Father’s Day card every year so kids wouldn’t ask why she didn’t have a dad and then throw it away when she got home. :(

I got attendance awards when I was younger, when I was in grade 1 I didn't mind because I was super young; but any year after that I hated it because it just singles out kids to get made fun of for going to school

It's this kind of attitude/award system that is a big reason incompetent lowest-common-denominators get hired/promoted... actual *ability, skill and intelligence* get ignored while simpleton 'just following orders, and not thinking!' gets rewarded.

Excellent Mum! I grew up with a chronic illness as well and despite having almost perfect grades through university, attendance always threatened to get me held back or failing a class. They focus on the wrong things. I now work from home for a wonderful company that focuses more on my efficiency than if I'm at my computer all day every day. I hope your little one can to (I recommend getting her into computers ;) )

I'm a chronic illness sufferer as well, and I was always getting s**t from teachers. BUT, interestingly enough, they always ended up having me take the test for the spelling bee (sometimes from home!) because none of my classmates made the cut. I truly believe I learned more on my own than I ever did in class.

Thats it burn the princble office and destroy all his pc's make the harddrives unreadble and leave an mesage take care of poeple with an ilnes with live and care not like you you prick

There's nothing wrong with rewarding certain things. Get over it.

Had a guy who never missed a day in his whole 12 years. No idea who this guy was as he was not in any of the AP and advanced classes, but there he was with us on honors night getting a special achievement plaque. I didn't think it was physically possible to not miss A SINGLE DAY in 12 years! Man, we were blown away. According to those that knew him, dude NEVER got sick. EVER. Incredible.

Your daughter doesn't need school, when she's got you as a mum, you're lovely and amazing!! : ) : )

here's the thing: in seventh grade, I was about to get the perfect attendance record (literally- only had three days left in the school year). and sudenly in the middle of 6th period algebra, I got called over the loudspeaker to go home....because my grandfather had just gone into cardiac arrest at the wheel of his car. So, the attendance award went to the stoner whose parents forced him to never stay home because he had been arrested for truancy, and so he only missed 2 days and I missed 3 while i was mourning my dead grandfather. Woo-hoo for attendance awards.

This is one of the reasons I was never able to attend public schools: I would have been absent due to illness too much and they would have reported my parents

What if they had a valid reason such as an illness?

I have never heard of a school with attendance award where I live