A question.

[ZERO.]

I was wondering is there any such thing as a scholarship for perfect Attendance at school?

I have herd abunch of parents bitch about their kids not going to school just because of this. Can anyone fill me on on this?

[gurusloth]

I've never heard of a scholarship specifically for attendance. I know that many schools will dock grades for failing to attend class, and eventually you face the risk of suspension and/or expulsion, so maybe that's why the parents are bitching. Also, if you miss too much school your parents can be judged unfit and you could be removed from your home and put into foster care.

[ZERO.]

Thank you for filling me in.

[P-Sleazy]

not any that I know of, BUT! there is an upside to attending school everyday from 1st grade to 12th grade and never missing a day in those 12 years. You get an award in the form of a piece of paper along with your diploma. :)

[adamark]

not any that I know of, BUT! there is an upside to attending school everyday from 1st grade to 12th grade and never missing a day in those 12 years. You get an award in the form of a piece of paper along with your diploma. :)
Pfft. honestly, who the fuck cares? :rolleyes:

[Mike McC]

Also, attendence is looked at by a lot of institutions, so having perfect attendence on your record will help with college applications.

[Muffin Mage]

Or even not skipping all the time.

Of course, here, if you miss six days in a class without permission, you fail the class.

And then I laugh at you.

[P-Sleazy]

Pfft. honestly, who the fuck cares? :rolleyes:

...the person who never missed a day apperently

[ZERO.]

I think its kinda sick in a way, I mean think about it, what are the chances of you having to miss school because your sick or some other reason, so if you never miss a day of school you either have a lucky horse shoe shoved up your ass, or an asshole of a parent.

[Eltargrim]

I think the institutions would pay more attention to chronic inattendance; I mean, really, who gives a fuck over 1-2 days missed in a year of 200?

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

institutes of learning really don't care about attendance anyway. yeah, they're gonna fail you if you miss four classes, and dock you a letter grade for missing three (at least that was the rule at my college). however, YOU'RE paying THEM for the class, so as long as the tution check clears, the school doesn't give two tugs of a dead dog's cock about what you do or if you go to class. this additude is the guiding factor in a majority of a private school's decisions.

[P-Sleazy]

heh, its 180 days of school here. And seniors in Highschool really only have 170 with all that senior stuff going on throughout the year.

[Bobbey]

I personnally know one person who never missed a day of school in her five years of high school...I think she got an award and a hundred bucks for it...so yeah, nobody cares. I prefer staying home when I'm sick and feverish than sitting my ass on a chair, listening to a teacher saying something that probably wont serve any use to me in my futur while having an urge to vomit all the time.

[P-Sleazy]

hey hey hey! thats what bathrooms are for in the school. The're there so we can vomit in them! Thats the only purpose of having them in there! What'd you think they were for?

So go ahead! show up to school with a fever and quesy stomach. Get the credit for showing up for the day in school, but get to leave early! Its Foolproof!

[ZERO.]

Hey, last time I got sick in school I used my barf as a threat and a wepon, it was a good day.

[Hectonkhyres]

I think they might give a scholarship out of pure pity.
Highschool these days is akin to being drug around on meathooks while reciting latin.

[Muffin Mage]

Are you kidding? High school is a joke! Goodness, I took (almost) all of the hardest classes I could, never did more than two hours of homework a night, and walked off with a 3.4 GPA and my college giving me eighteen grand a year.

[P-Sleazy]

18 grand you say? I did the same thing you did in terms of classes (just less of them, I only took 5 total classes this year), did MAYBE 10 minutes of homework each morning the work was due, walked off with a 4.013 GPA and only got 7,500 in scholarships thus far and probably all I will get. BUT I did get 5 known college credits and possibly 5 more this year so I guess that could save me an entire years worth in tuition costs:p

[Hectonkhyres]

Didn't say it was hard... not in the form of schoolwork anyway. It was however embarassing, violent, tedious, exhausting, and you leave it without having learned anything besides that you should hate and fear your fellow man. At least that is what it was like for me.

[Muffin Mage]

That's because you didn't walk in with a goal. I decided as a sophomore that I would go to college for music and play professionally, and as a junior that I'd also major in Classical languages. It made it unbelievably easy to pick useful classes, and it let me recognize the stupidity of my fellow man and ignore it as such.

And B_Real, barring some bizarre, unknown error somewhere, I'll be going in with at least 11 AP classes, worth between 3 and 9 credit hours apiece. And I'll still be taking 19 and 20 hours a semester. Plus practice time. Plus gigs. Plus, on occasion, sleep and meals. You pansy.

[Hectonkhyres]

I don't know what highschool you went to, but it must have been eden in comparison to mine. In the locker room a favorite trick some bastards would pull would be to stick one or two locks into a plastic newspaper bag and swing it like a mace. I lost a tooth senior year and my nose still isn't quite right. No joke.

Better than what could have happened. Freshman year a fight in the cafateria got out of hand and one kid died. So I am not talking about any petty teasing or stupidity. College is endless bliss for me.

[DarkCORN!]

one kid died.
Doubt it.
High school, looking ahead and based on what others say, is going to be pure hell.

[Fenris]

Doubt it.
High school, looking ahead and based on what others say, is going to be pure hell.
Depends on where you go. I was a Freshman last year, and I had a rather good time. Knew a lot of the Seniors and was fairly well respected.

Just don't take any anti-Freshmen remarks seriously. Unless your school allows hazing.

[Mondt]

Anti-freshmen remarks? It's anti-rookie remarks at my school. Freshmen get to make fun of 8th graders, instead of everyone making frun of freshmen. Since it's 8-12, I just finished 8th, I get to make fun of 'em. Woot!

I miss at least a week of school every year. I go on a vacation in Semptember every year. Sooooo much fun. Plus, friends I only get to see once a year.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

not any that I know of, BUT! there is an upside to attending school everyday from 1st grade to 12th grade and never missing a day in those 12 years. You get an award in the form of a piece of paper along with your diploma. :)

Unless that piece of paper is a cheque for 2000 bucks. I can tell you at most in my 12 years in School I missed a total of 30 days from being sick or on a trip or being suspended.

[P-Sleazy]

And B_Real, barring some bizarre, unknown error somewhere, I'll be going in with at least 11 AP classes, worth between 3 and 9 credit hours apiece. And I'll still be taking 19 and 20 hours a semester. Plus practice time. Plus gigs. Plus, on occasion, sleep and meals. You pansy.

*cough*overacheiver*cough*

Damn, you got me beat. Me and my lazy fat ass. I went in to get out and into college. Now I dont want to leave my school tommorow. Ohwell, now there's college awaiting me, a broken transmission, and a bleak future that I'll have enough money to pay off my transmission and have money left over for college. (spending money, my parents said they'd help pay tuition after scholarships)

[Dwarfburg citizen]

In other news, some of "us" who have assholes of parents only let us skip unless were on a deathbed. Youd be surprised how little I are about a shitty paper when all you feel is hatred for the damn institution that your forced to suffer through unlike everyone else.