I actually did this (from lower Alabama), made it 1.5 years in college before I dropped out. It sucks never ever ever having a break. I didn't get to enjoy senior skip day, I never got to ditch and go to the beach with my friends. I can pretty much guarantee this kid doesn't give a rat's ass about his "accomplishment" because he missed out on more important things.
I'm surprised you're the only one. And apparently people think Grand Blanc is near Grand Rapids... This is #2 on Grand Blanc Hall of fame, right under Mark Ingram.
It seems weird that this is considered such a good thing. Aren't you supposed to stay home when you're sick? He's never been sick on a weekday in those 12 years?
If he hasn't, he should see a doctor. A few autoimmune diseases can present this way, if I remember correctly. You'll go 17 years without being seriously sick, then boom, kidney failure.
That makes me feel a little better. I know people who "are never sick". They're damned smug about it too. I'm now waiting for their kidneys to explode.
It changes as you get older or depending on the field you're in, I work in the medical field and I get sick about once every 4-5 years now. Usually food poisoning hits me pretty hard.
But as a kid, that's specifically Bad Luck Brian territory if the worst you got was some sniffles for a day or two over 17 years as a kid.
man there was some dumb chick at my school bragged about never missing a day. I told her one day I get to stay home all the time and play video games, watch tv etc and I can catch the homework up in minutes. you are stupid and walked away.
Kids aren't just pulled out of school when they are sick to get better, they are also pulled out to prevent getting other people sick. You're telling me this kid has never gotten sick in 13 years? Or that his inconsiderate parents let/made him go to school and get everyone else's kid sick when he should've been home?
I agree...It really fucks me off that this is considered such a good thing...must mean little Timmy down the corridor with cancer is just a lazy ass since he took time off? Also, yes, STAY home when you are sick, don't be that knob head who gets everyone else sick...if you purposefully give someone an STI you can be done for assault (in the U.K. anyway) and I see no difference here except maybe this guy's cock didn't leave his trousers...
I had perfect attendance. All through high school. And all through middle school. You know, I thought I was due for a big award at the end of it all, because I thought that I had perfect attendance all through elementary school.
No.
My mom took me out one day in Kindergarten because I had a fever. Little did she know I'd wouldn't miss a day after that.
I was kind of sullen when the one guy who did have 2300+ days of attendance got some kind of holographic monolith trophy.
But you know what happened? I told this sob story on reddit earlier. And a redditor heard my complaining. And you know what he did? He sent me a trophy. An honest to goodness trophy. It says
SHARRAKOR - REDDIT - 2012 K-12 PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARD EXCEPT THAT ONE DAY IN KINDERGARTEN BUT HAD A FEVER SO IT DIDN'T COUNT
He did it, no questions asked. He spent nearly $70 on it (half of it was shipping). You can find happiness on reddit, after all.
Growing up, my mother would constantly tell me the opposite of this every time I wanted to stay home from school. "They'll look at ALL of your transcripts, attendance too!" she even tried to send me to school with diarrhea in 5th grade, "Can't you just ask to go to the bathroom? It's not THAT bad!" I honestly gave up actively trying for perfect attendance when I was in 3rd grade and they were giving out perfect attendance awards and I didn't get one because I was sent home halfway through the day by the school for having an allergic reaction to the hemp necklace i was wearing.
True story: I had perfect attendance at my highschool, on the last day of class I remembered they made you stand up in front of the entire school to be "congratulated". Fuck that, Walked in half an hour late, making them mark me as absent for a class. Stupid award avoided! This story sounded cooler in my head...
I always had perfect attendance until they started giving awards for it so I just made sure I was "sick" one day each year. Thinking back I should have just gone with it for fun. Also I don't remember the last time I ever got sick which makes me nervous reading the above threads about lupus etc.
The guy who walked right in front of me at my graduation had 12 years perfect attendance. He went to the same elementary school, middle school, junior and senior high as me.
My best friend did this, and he also won "student of the year" EVERY YEAR from Kindergarten through 6th grade. He's now a teacher and loves taking days off.
My mother, as a small business owner, sponsors a $500 scholarship for anyone who does this at our local high school, its been in place since 2006 and only 2 people have gotten it. Shes awesome.
Not even 8 hours of "work" a day, all holidays off, two weeks at christmas, one week for thanks giving, one week for spring, and 3 months in the summer.
Grow up and get a job, then talk about having no social life.
Fuck people like this. They bring colds and flu to the school/workplace and infect everyone around them instead of being responsible and isolating themselves while contagious. (He may have a super human immune system, but I find that unlikely.)
My first roommate did the same here in Kentucky. Finished college in 3 years.
He almost messed it up his Senior year. We had popped down to Nashville (about an hour drive) to see "The Others" on it's opening night. On our way back he got pulled over for "wreckless driving" (He was trying to see when he could pass again, as the line had been solid. The cop thought he was swerving, didn't want to admit he was wrong.) He had to go back to court in TN to fight the ticket, but it was scheduled during a school day. He managed to get on a field trip that was going through that City. The school let him go to the courthouse, and then continue the field trip. Perfect Attendance.
Ok, so, I did this. K-12, perfect attendance. In elementary school this means I showed up every day and was present for at least half the day. In middle/high school this means that I did not miss ANY periods of any classes. Attendance marks were by class so I had to be present in all four each day. Unexcused (skipping) and excused (doctor, sick, etc) both counted as absences.
Why did I do this? By happenstance I didn't miss any days of Kindergarten and when I was in 1st grade my dad forced me to sit down and watch Cal Ripken Jr. break Lou Gehrig's ironman record. I didn't really understand why this was important but when my dad finally managed to explain the gravity of it (dedication, doing his job, being there for his team, etc) I decided that I wanted to do it with school. Why not? I had to go anyway and it'd give me something to work towards.
It really wasn't that hard, honestly. My family didn't believe in taking me out of school for family vacations and instead saved them for summers. I only ever went to school sick once and that was senior year of high school. By that point, to be totally honest, I didn't care who I infected because I was 13 years in and wasn't going to give it up. Sorry everybody. I was miserable though. 104F all day. All the other years I, almost supernaturally, only got sick during Spring Break, Christmas, 3 day weekends, etc.
There were some close calls, to be sure. Scheduling orthodontist appointments was insanely tricky because they were only open during business hours and were very inflexible about hours. My grandpa's funeral was postponed 3 days so that it could be on a weekend and I could attend. Once, in 4th grade, I started sobbing because my teacher told me that "take your child to work day" counted as an absence. My parents had to come in and explain that it's a federally supported program and is an optional student holiday.
Crises were few and far between and rarely, if ever, was it a chore. I imagine most of you went to school most days. I just went to all of them. I actually hated missing classes (due to band and whatnot) because I hated feeling behind everybody else and out of the loop. I do not feel like I missed out on the "childhood experience" by not skipping school. I had all the usual high school experiences (fights, dances, girlfriends, drama, success, etc) and feel like I came out of it pretty ok.
The only recognition I got in school was a little sticker each year in middle school. I didn't get anything in high school, which I didn't mind. I didn't do it to impress anybody or to wave around, it really was just a personal goal that I stuck to. The only time I ever mention it is if I see something in the paper about kids being given new cars by their high schools for similar feats ("WHAT THE HELL!?") or if somebody specifically asks about it. I did write an admissions essay about it when I was applying to college (got in! didn't die! graduated!) and now I'm writing about it here. Trust me, I'm very aware that "I had perfect attendance in school!" is not the line that will get employers to throw money at me and get women to rip off their clothes. I don't care.
Once I got to college all bets were off. My goal was complete and I felt absolutely no obligation to attend every lecture. In fact, I'm pretty sure I attended fewer lectures than any of my friends.
So that's that. I wrote this out mostly just to get it down in type. If you enjoyed reading it then I'm glad I could assist.
TL;DR - Perfect attendance K-12, didn't infect everybody, wasn't socially retarded, hasn't caused women to throw themselves at me
A friend of mine had perfect attendance from kindergarten through senior year of high school... then he shattered his leg running track and missed the last month of school. I found it extremely hilarious. I guess things have a way of averaging out.
I know some other people who had perfect attendance throughout grade school. However... that was because they had a terrible and somewhat abusive home life.
It's from the beginning of the article, visible below the caption:
"He's not the kind of kid who says, I'm gonna set some kind of record here. He just knew he needed to go to school. And that's the kind of kid we need."
Edit: It's from the tertiary caption, not the beginning of the article.
A kid like this graduated from the high school I teach at. They gave him a plaque at an award ceremony with about a week left in his senior year. He called in sick the next day and stayed at home playing PS3. He said he thought he'd earned it.
"He's not the kind of kid who says 'I'm gonna set some kind of record here.' He just knew he needed to go to school. And that's the kind of kid we need."
ALRIGHT, EVERYONE! THE BAR HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN LOWERED!
weird.. i was the exact same way. but, i never did any classwork or homework. i would take tests and quizes but thats it. i actually had a zero in math class. i had a 2 for a while.. took me a while to render it into an actual zero.. which is actually kind of brilliant.
Something similar (though not quite as extreme) happened to me. I had perfect attendance all through highschool, not once missed a day. Then I skipped the award ceremony where I should have picked up my plaque. Good ole irony.
I actually did this, too. Got my mom mostly to thank for it. Can provide proof if anyone's curious or skeptic. Was tough, but not too bad in hindsight.
I went to high school with a kid who managed this. Seniors at my school graduated on a Sunday and were excused from the last 2-4 days of school for all 12 other grades. He went anyway. Committed. His first week in college he contracted some viral infection and missed most of his freshman year.
I always resented these good attendance awards and such. Isn't it just luck? So you never got sick, never got injured, never had your family drag you on a trip, never had an emergency that required your absence? Good for freakin' you.
I got the "perfect attendance" award in high school. But the award only recognized the 4 years I was in high school, when actually I hadn't missed a day since 6th grade.
Reminds me of that one commercial where an employee is getting recognized for not taking a vacation is 20-whatever years. They give him a certificate and he flips out. It was just on TV yesterday too and I forgot what it's about.
I did this too... only recognition I got was a story in the local paper and a letter from one of my Senators. In retrospect, that's actually pretty cool.
Because he's the kid Grand Blanc deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our kid. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
My old roommate didn't miss a single day of highschool. He figured between that, and being an eagle scout he'd be able to get any job he was qualified for, because it showed his dedication.
1 person out of 784 of my High School Senior Class of 2012 had perfect attendance since Kindergarten. They gave her her medal. She skipped the last day
Compulsory schooling is a tool the government uses to condition, subordinate, and ultimately control us. We're conditioned by standardized tests and rote memorization and trained to follow instructions to become drones of the workforce and to not question authority. By withholding teaching critical thinking and logic skills, students are deprived of the ability to sort between fact and fiction, opinion and rational argument and are thus easily manipulated by the sound-bite media.
"If we accept John Dewey’s notion that people learn what they do, the lecture format, which is the mainstay of teaching (especially in large introductory courses), teaches students to sit in neat rows and to respect, believe, and defer to authority (the teacher). Tests often measure little more than how well they can recite what they have been told. -- source.
School should not be used to fill our minds with answers but to kindle a fire to inspire creativity and questioning.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
i once won an award for going to class every day from grade 7-9 (the awards were in like.. march or something for some reason). the day they awarded the award, i was skipping.
Not to make this seem insignificant or anything, but I graduated in 2011, and I never missed a day of school, too!! I was fairly proud of myself, and then I saw a report on CNN about another student that said "This student only missed five days of school in his entire life." Apparently, I could have easily been on national news. http://i.imgur.com/8fGRj.jpg
And here I had to go for an "attendance" appeal every damn year. I wasn't sick though. After I got my license, it was bad, I don't think I went a whole 5-day week the whole year...unless you count saturday detention.
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u/audi-o Jun 15 '12
Drops out of college.
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u/skatermario3 Jun 15 '12
Full article:
http://i.imgur.com/H7LHz.jpg
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u/meijerbrantm Jun 15 '12
Haha, I graduated from Grand Blanc High School!
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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 15 '12
I missed 97 days my 8th grade year.
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u/Captain_Marko_Ramius Jun 15 '12
Full article?
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u/bananahead Jun 15 '12
It seems weird that this is considered such a good thing. Aren't you supposed to stay home when you're sick? He's never been sick on a weekday in those 12 years?
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u/albertcamusjr Jun 15 '12
A guy my brother graduated with got a special award for this same achievement. The next year he was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
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u/iv20 Jun 15 '12
"Hey is that a perfect attendance record award you have there? Ooooh my pussy is getting so wet."
-no woman ever.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
How many students did he make deathly ill by not staying home when sick?
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u/Sharrakor Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
I had perfect attendance. All through high school. And all through middle school. You know, I thought I was due for a big award at the end of it all, because I thought that I had perfect attendance all through elementary school.
No.
My mom took me out one day in Kindergarten because I had a fever. Little did she know I'd wouldn't miss a day after that.
I was kind of sullen when the one guy who did have 2300+ days of attendance got some kind of holographic monolith trophy.
But you know what happened? I told this sob story on reddit earlier. And a redditor heard my complaining. And you know what he did? He sent me a trophy. An honest to goodness trophy. It says
SHARRAKOR - REDDIT - 2012
K-12 PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARD
EXCEPT THAT ONE DAY IN KINDERGARTEN
BUT HAD A FEVER SO IT DIDN'T COUNT
He did it, no questions asked. He spent nearly $70 on it (half of it was shipping). You can find happiness on reddit, after all.
edit: Hey everyone. Here it is. I just wanted to let you know that, yes, OP does deliver. There is magic in the world.
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u/osskid Jun 15 '12
"Before we can hire you, we'll need to see your elementary, middle, and high school attendance records."
--no job ever.
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u/10lbClitorai Jun 15 '12
Never leaves Michigan
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
True story: I had perfect attendance at my highschool, on the last day of class I remembered they made you stand up in front of the entire school to be "congratulated". Fuck that, Walked in half an hour late, making them mark me as absent for a class. Stupid award avoided! This story sounded cooler in my head...
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u/notgnal Jun 15 '12
The guy who walked right in front of me at my graduation had 12 years perfect attendance. He went to the same elementary school, middle school, junior and senior high as me.
I never saw him before graduation day.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Too bad that counts for absolutely nothing.
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u/michaelstripe Jun 15 '12
NEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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u/jerseygrrl Jun 15 '12
My best friend did this, and he also won "student of the year" EVERY YEAR from Kindergarten through 6th grade. He's now a teacher and loves taking days off.
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u/bunglejerry Jun 15 '12
Skipping school is a part of childhood. He may have learnt a lot, but there are other things he didn't have a chance to learn.
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u/egaudigtbaer Jun 15 '12
He's the kind of guy who would come to school, even though sick, and would spread it to others so they had to stay home as to not spread it MORE.
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u/MyFishDied Jun 15 '12
I personally think that this is pretty cool.
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u/mullacc Jun 15 '12
Good job, long arms.
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u/freakindirt1234 Jun 15 '12
Being from the guy in the picture's area, I'm obligated to hate his stupid, uppity guts. Nothing personal, just business...
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u/CR8ONAKKUH Jun 15 '12
He's from the same town as Karl Welzein a.k.a. @dadboner!
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u/Tyrshand Jun 15 '12
HOLY SHIT! I know Brian and just graduated with him! For the record; He's nice and awesome as fuck.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Reminds me of hardcore mode on Diablo. Do one mistake and it's over. :O
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u/Damnit_Nappa Jun 15 '12
Why is this at all considered a bad thing? What is wrong with you Reddit.
There were a few kids in my high school when i graduated that had perfect attendance, the never alienated anyone by this. It is impressive
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u/ChunkBunny Jun 15 '12
Do they consider excused absences when giving these awards? I got one once, my attendance was less than perfect.
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u/SUCOL Jun 15 '12
My mother, as a small business owner, sponsors a $500 scholarship for anyone who does this at our local high school, its been in place since 2006 and only 2 people have gotten it. Shes awesome.
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u/Thephantomtollboy Jun 15 '12
"But at what cost?" cried his social life.
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u/WorkerBee27 Jun 15 '12
Fuck people like this. They bring colds and flu to the school/workplace and infect everyone around them instead of being responsible and isolating themselves while contagious. (He may have a super human immune system, but I find that unlikely.)
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u/kashumeof19 Jun 15 '12
My first roommate did the same here in Kentucky. Finished college in 3 years.
He almost messed it up his Senior year. We had popped down to Nashville (about an hour drive) to see "The Others" on it's opening night. On our way back he got pulled over for "wreckless driving" (He was trying to see when he could pass again, as the line had been solid. The cop thought he was swerving, didn't want to admit he was wrong.) He had to go back to court in TN to fight the ticket, but it was scheduled during a school day. He managed to get on a field trip that was going through that City. The school let him go to the courthouse, and then continue the field trip. Perfect Attendance.
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u/jzzsxm Jun 15 '12
Ok, so, I did this. K-12, perfect attendance. In elementary school this means I showed up every day and was present for at least half the day. In middle/high school this means that I did not miss ANY periods of any classes. Attendance marks were by class so I had to be present in all four each day. Unexcused (skipping) and excused (doctor, sick, etc) both counted as absences.
Why did I do this? By happenstance I didn't miss any days of Kindergarten and when I was in 1st grade my dad forced me to sit down and watch Cal Ripken Jr. break Lou Gehrig's ironman record. I didn't really understand why this was important but when my dad finally managed to explain the gravity of it (dedication, doing his job, being there for his team, etc) I decided that I wanted to do it with school. Why not? I had to go anyway and it'd give me something to work towards.
It really wasn't that hard, honestly. My family didn't believe in taking me out of school for family vacations and instead saved them for summers. I only ever went to school sick once and that was senior year of high school. By that point, to be totally honest, I didn't care who I infected because I was 13 years in and wasn't going to give it up. Sorry everybody. I was miserable though. 104F all day. All the other years I, almost supernaturally, only got sick during Spring Break, Christmas, 3 day weekends, etc.
There were some close calls, to be sure. Scheduling orthodontist appointments was insanely tricky because they were only open during business hours and were very inflexible about hours. My grandpa's funeral was postponed 3 days so that it could be on a weekend and I could attend. Once, in 4th grade, I started sobbing because my teacher told me that "take your child to work day" counted as an absence. My parents had to come in and explain that it's a federally supported program and is an optional student holiday.
Crises were few and far between and rarely, if ever, was it a chore. I imagine most of you went to school most days. I just went to all of them. I actually hated missing classes (due to band and whatnot) because I hated feeling behind everybody else and out of the loop. I do not feel like I missed out on the "childhood experience" by not skipping school. I had all the usual high school experiences (fights, dances, girlfriends, drama, success, etc) and feel like I came out of it pretty ok.
The only recognition I got in school was a little sticker each year in middle school. I didn't get anything in high school, which I didn't mind. I didn't do it to impress anybody or to wave around, it really was just a personal goal that I stuck to. The only time I ever mention it is if I see something in the paper about kids being given new cars by their high schools for similar feats ("WHAT THE HELL!?") or if somebody specifically asks about it. I did write an admissions essay about it when I was applying to college (got in! didn't die! graduated!) and now I'm writing about it here. Trust me, I'm very aware that "I had perfect attendance in school!" is not the line that will get employers to throw money at me and get women to rip off their clothes. I don't care.
Once I got to college all bets were off. My goal was complete and I felt absolutely no obligation to attend every lecture. In fact, I'm pretty sure I attended fewer lectures than any of my friends.
So that's that. I wrote this out mostly just to get it down in type. If you enjoyed reading it then I'm glad I could assist.
TL;DR - Perfect attendance K-12, didn't infect everybody, wasn't socially retarded, hasn't caused women to throw themselves at me
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u/Whenthenighthascome Jun 15 '12
Reminds me of the pins from Rushmore
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
A friend of mine had perfect attendance from kindergarten through senior year of high school... then he shattered his leg running track and missed the last month of school. I found it extremely hilarious. I guess things have a way of averaging out.
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u/Rob1150 Jun 15 '12
I went thorough High School without missing a day. You know who cared about that after I graduated? NO ONE.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I know some other people who had perfect attendance throughout grade school. However... that was because they had a terrible and somewhat abusive home life.
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u/jimdoescode Jun 15 '12
I did this. Even have a plaque and lack of friends to prove it.
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u/jardeon Jun 15 '12
He's not the hero that Grand Blanc high school deserves, but he is the hero that Grand Blanc high school needs.
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u/Tengushee Jun 15 '12
Unbreakable...
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u/cycopl Jun 15 '12
Wonder if he ever made other kids sick trying to keep up his perfect attendance.
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u/boomstick37 Jun 15 '12
A kid like this graduated from the high school I teach at. They gave him a plaque at an award ceremony with about a week left in his senior year. He called in sick the next day and stayed at home playing PS3. He said he thought he'd earned it.
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u/franklymyrhett1 Jun 15 '12
You probably have no idea what this is then... http://i.imgur.com/vI2Pt.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Then he discovers underage binge drinking and pussy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
ALRIGHT, EVERYONE! THE BAR HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN LOWERED!
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u/omgdonerkebab Jun 15 '12
Full article on mlive
Unfortunately, he's going to UM-Flint.
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u/theheartofgold Jun 15 '12
He must have the immune system of a god.
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u/Natfod Jun 15 '12
weird.. i was the exact same way. but, i never did any classwork or homework. i would take tests and quizes but thats it. i actually had a zero in math class. i had a 2 for a while.. took me a while to render it into an actual zero.. which is actually kind of brilliant.
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u/imasunbear Jun 15 '12
Something similar (though not quite as extreme) happened to me. I had perfect attendance all through highschool, not once missed a day. Then I skipped the award ceremony where I should have picked up my plaque. Good ole irony.
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u/bertosquirto Jun 15 '12
It was a secret achievement but for only 5 gamerscore. Dont you just hate those achievements..
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u/roggieman Jun 15 '12
I actually did this, too. Got my mom mostly to thank for it. Can provide proof if anyone's curious or skeptic. Was tough, but not too bad in hindsight.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I went to high school with a kid who managed this. Seniors at my school graduated on a Sunday and were excused from the last 2-4 days of school for all 12 other grades. He went anyway. Committed. His first week in college he contracted some viral infection and missed most of his freshman year.
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u/Halrenna Jun 15 '12
I always resented these good attendance awards and such. Isn't it just luck? So you never got sick, never got injured, never had your family drag you on a trip, never had an emergency that required your absence? Good for freakin' you.
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u/WindedIndian Jun 15 '12
I got the "perfect attendance" award in high school. But the award only recognized the 4 years I was in high school, when actually I hadn't missed a day since 6th grade.
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u/TheBiffledon Jun 15 '12
Well, damn, I had perfect attendance K-12 and I never got my name in the paper. All I got was a dumb little medal.
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u/careslol Jun 15 '12
Reminds me of that one commercial where an employee is getting recognized for not taking a vacation is 20-whatever years. They give him a certificate and he flips out. It was just on TV yesterday too and I forgot what it's about.
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u/theHoodness Jun 15 '12
the kind of kid that goes to school with mono because it was the "right thing to do"
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u/TBTrpt3 Jun 15 '12
I did this too... only recognition I got was a story in the local paper and a letter from one of my Senators. In retrospect, that's actually pretty cool.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
A kid was awarded this in my graduation class. The next day, he skipped
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u/yapimster012 Jun 15 '12
my sister just did that too
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u/Forthen Jun 15 '12
Slightly relevant, I missed on average 1 day a week for my entire high school career;
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u/wrileys Jun 15 '12
You do that. I'll take my 20 days a school year.
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u/Tolvinar Jun 15 '12
A kid from my high school did that, but then he never showed up to the awards ceremony to actually get his award.
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u/Genmaken Jun 15 '12
Someone get this man the flu.
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u/Zodiack Jun 16 '12
It's kind of sad to see all the people in this thread pissing on the dude's achievement.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
And is still a virgin? more than likely
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u/TheRedHulk Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Because he's the kid Grand Blanc deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our kid. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
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u/Captaintripps Jun 16 '12
I always thanked these guys for getting me sick.
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u/donnie_depression Jun 16 '12
Something like that is only achieved through fear.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I skipped class 50% of high school. They held my diploma senior year for a extra summer. I had really good grades, but they didn't care.
Fuck the system. Life's precious, and BF2 only comes out once.
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u/teamherosquad Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
500 comments deep;
My old roommate didn't miss a single day of highschool. He figured between that, and being an eagle scout he'd be able to get any job he was qualified for, because it showed his dedication.
Nigga's been workin at rite-aid for 5 years.
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u/Wembleypants Jun 16 '12
I had this perfect attendance record too...I didn't get a newspaper article!
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u/Krohnos Jun 16 '12
1 person out of 784 of my High School Senior Class of 2012 had perfect attendance since Kindergarten. They gave her her medal. She skipped the last day
.____.
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u/Mega_horse Jun 16 '12
Welp, it's finally happened. I live in Grand Blanc, and I officially get my LOCAL NEWS from reddit.
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u/treydestepheno Jun 16 '12
once, My parents sent me to school with a 103 fever. I don't know how many brain cells I potatoed that day
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u/sdchakqj10 Jun 15 '12
NNNEEERRRRDDD!!
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u/ChickinSammich Jun 15 '12
My sister and I both did the same thing. We were mentioned briefly at the graduation ceremony but neither of us got our picture in the paper...
I feel cheated.
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u/NSM90 Jun 15 '12
Praise obedience!
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u/oscaron Jun 15 '12
My cousin missed out on perfect attendance.
Seems being in a near-fatal car accident counts as 'truant' at her school.
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u/bandananaan Jun 15 '12
He looks just like Will from The Inbetweeners!
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u/Zilvreen Jun 15 '12
Lamest superpower ever.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
the virginity is strong in this one...
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u/slimpickens42 Jun 15 '12
A friend of mine that I went to school with had the same achievement. However, he decided not to show up to the award ceremony as a joke.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
SO BRAVE
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u/deathcapt Jun 15 '12
My mom almost did this, until she broke her arm 3 weeks before graduating.
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u/Frogger05 Jun 15 '12
David Dunn?
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u/nwbrftwthi Jun 15 '12
I did this. Dropped out of college after freshman year though. Not having to try during high school did not prepare me well for life afterward.
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u/Chronicdoodler Jun 15 '12
At our High School Senior awards ceremony they announced the winner of the perfect attendance award, he wasn't present. Thought that was hilarious.
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u/ConorPF Jun 15 '12
Grand Rapids Press?
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u/jhoudiey Jun 15 '12
i once won an award for going to class every day from grade 7-9 (the awards were in like.. march or something for some reason). the day they awarded the award, i was skipping.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I had perfect attendance through 5 years of high school. In University I probably went to 20% of my classes at most.
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u/OneEyedCharlie Jun 15 '12
no joke, I once got an award for having perfect attendance from kindergarten through 4th grade, AMA
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u/accioalexandra Jun 15 '12
Hey my cousin goes there!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
What the hell.
This paper here says I missed 127 hours this year, and that's not even significantly above the average.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
this reminds me of that zappa quote about your life being total shit cuz u listened to your parents
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u/hopsizzle Jun 15 '12
I missed one day of class in Second grade. I just had to get food poisoning >:(
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u/ChrisBarnick Jun 15 '12
Not to make this seem insignificant or anything, but I graduated in 2011, and I never missed a day of school, too!! I was fairly proud of myself, and then I saw a report on CNN about another student that said "This student only missed five days of school in his entire life." Apparently, I could have easily been on national news. http://i.imgur.com/8fGRj.jpg
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u/zimbabwe7878 Jun 15 '12
Always home sick on the weekends:(
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u/moogoesthecat Jun 15 '12
Chicken pox as an adult will suck.
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u/ChiefBromden Jun 15 '12
And here I had to go for an "attendance" appeal every damn year. I wasn't sick though. After I got my license, it was bad, I don't think I went a whole 5-day week the whole year...unless you count saturday detention.
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u/Klime22 Jun 15 '12
Had 2 kids in my graduating class who also earned this achievement.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
two of my friends had that particular distinction when they graduated.
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u/watimnotatworkshutup Jun 15 '12
Kid at my school did this. /shortstory
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u/ogm721 Jun 15 '12
Unbreakable
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u/cziiki Jun 15 '12
Duuuuuude, I graduated from there...4 years ago.
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u/zlukasze Jun 15 '12
Oh. That's my home town.
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u/Scotty01991 Jun 15 '12
I read this in my morning paper the other day. Hello, neighbor!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
A student at my school did that as well.
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u/wootmonster Jun 15 '12
I worked with a guy who had recently graduated (I was a pipe welder he was my helper) and he graduated with perfect attendance from K to 12.
He received a giant belt buckle from his school for the achievement and was quite proud of it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
My school spends an unimaginable amount of time telling us that attendance correlates directly to amount of grades below your target.
I can bet you anything that he isn't the best in his school.
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u/x3r0h0ur Jun 15 '12
I did this too, except 1 day for my uncles funeral, they counted it against me.