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Attendance... I wanted to pay props to a kid I just read about in the nespaper. He had perfect attendance through all 13 years of school and it reminded me of me a little bit. The kid goes to my old high school and while I didn't have perfect attendance k-12 I did have perfect attendance in high school which I am quite proud of.
I probably only missed 2 or 3 days in the the 13 years of school and I only missed a few classes in college as well. OAKDALE: Senior scores a perfect 13 in yearly attendance BY JENNIFER JEFFERSON Pioneer Press "James Flaherty?" "Present." That's an exchange that's been repeated regularly for Flaherty, 18, a senior at Tartan High School in Oakdale. Today, he completes his 13-year perfect school attendance record, which dates to kindergarten. How'd he do it? Good health, according to his mother, Nancy Flaherty. "He's a very, very healthy child. He was never sick." A stay-at-home mother in Oakdale, she also concludes that it must be much harder for kids to fake being sick when their mom is around the house during the day. Skipping school to go elsewhere also was out of the question, James Flaherty says. The only thing he did skip was the graduating class's traditional Senior Skip Day. Flaherty insists that his relatively rare achievement wasn't anything he set out to do. "Only in the last two years I got serious (about perfect attendance)," he says. His friends, he says, have been making the perfect-attendance goal a bigger deal than he has. "They think it's cool," he says. His brother, Nathan, a senior at Carleton College in Northfield, and his sister, Nicole, a junior at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, missed about 15 days combined during their 13-year pre-college academic careers, their mom says. James Flaherty attended Castle Elementary School and Maplewood Middle School and received a certificate for his perfect attendance at both schools. He took part in his high school choir and likes to play guitar in his spare time. Flaherty will attend University of Minnesota in Duluth to study criminology, but he's already hedging his bets. "I don't know if I'll continue my record in college," Flaherty says. | |
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I would like to add that I think the ability to show up is a very, very important trait in people. People who you absolutely know are going to show up are the people who are going to be successful in this world and are the people I want to be associated with.
I can't tell you how much I am put off by people who are constantly calling in sick to work 5, 10 or even 15 times a year or constantly skipping classes or whatever. In my mind these people cannot be counted on. I realize that people occasionally get sick, but I would venture that at least 75 percent of the time the sickness was either self-inflicted (drinking) or pretty damn minor. There are some people who think that the tiniest little ailment in the morning is reason to call in sick, but come on...nobody feels great in the morning. I have a sister who is constantly calling in sick to work and then later the same night going out and playing softball or whatever. She will say she was sick, but how sick could you be if 8 hours later you are able to play? . [This message was edited Wed Jun 4 7:06:37 PDT 2003 by lovemachine] | |
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I will now allow this thread to drop like a lead-balloon, but once again I offer props to that kid.  | |
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good for him!
i know i had some issues in school and missed way too much class! in college, though, i try to never miss a class. hell, i'm paying for it! | |
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lovemachine said: I probably only missed 2 or 3 days in the the 13 years of school and I only missed a few classes in college as well.
NERD!!! 
ps..I tend to have good attendence myself...and I never call in due to "self-inflicted" illness | |
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I probably only attended about 10% of secondary school...  And I am a nerd, so what does that say about you  | |
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lovemachine said: I would like to add that I think the ability to show up is a very, very important trait in people. People who you absolutely know are going to show up are the people who are going to be successful in this world and are the people I want to be associated with.
Then you wouldn't want to be associated with me. "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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  You had no friends...for which to ditch with...   |
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moderatorya know...when i was in high school...i had horrible attendance...i mean...fer fucks sake in my senior year i think i missed 92 days  LOL
HOWEVER..i think i am a very reliable person now...im always on time...in fact..i tend to run early
people change every minute of every day..so just cuz your attendance may have sucked in high school...or was perfect in high school...may not have any indiction as to what kinna person you are now  
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I harldly ever went to school or college I skipped class a lot! But I always did well in school,made the dean's list in college and whatever. My teacher's have told me I am an underachiever. Oh well funny thing is I became a teacher myself!
Anyway,I have a friend who never missed school from pre-k all the way through college. He's a fireman now along with all of the guys I used to skip school with so go figure.. Congrats to this kid though! In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
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endorphin74 said: lovemachine said: I probably only missed 2 or 3 days in the the 13 years of school and I only missed a few classes in college as well.
NERD!!!
ps..I tend to have good attendence myself...and I never call in due to "self-inflicted" illness How can I be a nerd? I am clearly the coolest person on the org | |
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that's one of the things my dad taught me--keep your attendance up, at work and at school. i had perfect attendance durin my school days, as well as nowadays at my job.  | |
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violett said: im always on time...in fact..i tend to run early
eh-hem. Maybe to work, but not much else... |
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CarrieMpls said: violett said: im always on time...in fact..i tend to run early
eh-hem. Maybe to work, but not much else... co-sign  | |
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lovemachine said: endorphin74 said: lovemachine said: I probably only missed 2 or 3 days in the the 13 years of school and I only missed a few classes in college as well.
NERD!!!
ps..I tend to have good attendence myself...and I never call in due to "self-inflicted" illness How can I be a nerd? I am clearly the coolest person on the org oh yeah, that's right...I forgot... 
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endorphin74 said: CarrieMpls said: violett said: im always on time...in fact..i tend to run early
eh-hem. Maybe to work, but not much else... co-sign hey now!!!  i thought you guys were my freinds!!! im more on time than most...arent i?? 
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violett said: endorphin74 said: CarrieMpls said: violett said: im always on time...in fact..i tend to run early
eh-hem. Maybe to work, but not much else... co-sign hey now!!! i thought you guys were my freinds!!! im more on time than most...arent i?? "something fucked" tends to come up a lot... :LOL: but we still love you 
face it toots, NONE of us kitties are very good at timeliness unless it's really important, like a wedding, then we are good! | |
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endorphin74 said: violett said: endorphin74 said: CarrieMpls said: violett said: im always on time...in fact..i tend to run early
eh-hem. Maybe to work, but not much else... co-sign hey now!!! i thought you guys were my freinds!!! im more on time than most...arent i?? "something fucked" tends to come up a lot... :LOL: but we still love you
face it toots, NONE of us kitties are very good at timeliness unless it's really important, like a wedding, then we are good! ok.
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I had horrible attendance in school--I was a sickly kid. One year when report cards were being given out on the last day I really thought I was going to be left back. For all my bad attendance I never seemed to get far behind in schoolwork and maintained pretty decent grades. | |
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