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Reply to "Absenteeism-reduction measures at Dranesville ES feel like misplaced student pressure"
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[quote=Anonymous]Attendance-based rewards are terrible. It leads to kids coming to school sick. I graduated with a guy in 2000 who received a special award at the senior awards assembly because he had not missed one day of school his entire K-12 career. His brother received the same award the next year when he was a senior as well. There is no way that he never came to school sick. I remember plenty of times when he was coughing and sneezing in our AP Chem class. There was even an incident during our 8th grade trip where he had to switch seats with someone in the back of the coach bus so he'd be closer to the bathroom because he was "carsick" but the carsickness lasted the entire trip to the amusement park, while at the park, and back. He wasn't a walker or drop-off kid who wasn't used to riding on a bus, either. He road the bus daily and was even on the tennis team and took the rinky-dink, rickety team bus to games. [/quote]
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