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Article: Perfect attendance record spans 12 years of school
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- June 13, 2008
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Many students strive to have good attendance. Some students even manage to achieve perfect attendance for a year or more.
But few students can claim the achievement PHS graduate Michael Szymanski can: perfect attendance for all 12 years of school.
PHS attendance officer Lynette Dean described it as "an amazing accomplishment." After his third-grade year, Michael realized he had had perfect attendance since first grade. He decided to "just keep it going." The end-of-the-year parties for perfect attendance provided an added incentive.
"It's really hard to do," he said. "You have to be pretty lucky. In elementary school, I had ...