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Article: Getting recognized for perfect attendance, or not
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- July 23, 2007
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The conversation about perfect attendance continues. It all began
in June when some young people were congratulated for attending 12
years of school without missing a day.
As a result, at least two readers wrote to share that they were
not recognized for perfect attendance because the school felt it
might encourage students to come to school sick to preserve a record.
Mary Hartman, the mother of Jerry Hartman who attended Northmont
High and the Montgomery County Joint Vocational School, graduating in
1982, thinks her son should have been recognized.
"Since he made this effort to attend classes every day for 13
years he needs to be honored. JVS gave Jerry an award, but Northmont
said if ...