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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I associate those awards with kids in schools with lowest performing students/low income schools. Saddest (ridiculous) "award."[/quote]

I’m the PP from above.  I went to an Ivy and have a PhD. I also played 3 Varsity sports in HS and was captain of each team. I won plenty of other awards, but I was actually pretty proud of that one.  Very few kids besides me cared or noticed that I won it.  I doubt it was encouraging others to try for perfect attendance.  [/quote]

I'm a different PP who -also- went to an Ivy, has a PhD, and had perfect attendance from 2nd - 11th grade. (I did do Senior Skip Day in 12th so ended my streak in 11th). And guess what? Honestly perfect attendance really doesn't matter. I was so prideful of it when I was in grade school, but in the end missing a day or two really didn't matter. I had various friends stay out sick when they were sick, miss the first week of school due to family vacation - heck one of my friends even failed her first 7th grade bio quiz because she'd missed the first 2 weeks of school for a family vacation. In the end, didn't matter, all those friends went to just as great schools as me (some even better such as MIT) and went on to have great careers. Now that I'm older and I see perfect attendance doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, I'd rather have had another happy, unique memory with my family than a handful of extra days in school.

It's nice and cute that there's an award to award students who do want to be diligent I guess, but I agree with PPs who note it's dangerous with this age of Covid.

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