<p>Or a venerable accolade? I heard that you can get scholarships for perfect attendance, but that doesn’t sound plausible. Are there any benefits to getting perfect attendance?</p>
<p>“Venerable accolade”? Seriously, did you swallow a thesaurus, or something?</p>
<p>No, not particularly. Sorry.</p>
<p>Getting perfect attendance is not a “venerable accolade”.</p>
<p>So it’ll be okay if I miss some classes? Like I won’t be missing out on anything right?</p>
<p>And what’s wrong with “venerable accolade”?</p>
<p>I saw on the news last week that the Los Angeles Unified School District gave away two new cars to two graduating students with perfect attendance.</p>
<p>It is fine to miss as long as you don’t start missing so much that your grades go down. Colleges don’t see any attendance records…</p>
<p>I missed a quite a few days in high school. It all worked out in the end. Unless you have a legit truancy problem, attendance is irrelevant.</p>
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<p>Knowing the words venerable and accolade isn’t worth much. But knowing when to use them is. (And so is knowing that the adjective venerable almost always describes people, not accomplishments.)</p>
<p>The only benefits to perfect attendance are not missing any class work. No special value for admissions.</p>
<p>There’s also the benefit of no make-up homework. </p>
<p>I have a kid who’s chronically ill. Before she dropped out of school altogether, she had a lot of absences. First, she’d be sick. Then she’d be better, but if she’d been out for X days, they’d give her X days to make up the work, while also having to do the homework that was being assigned. So, if she was well enough to drag her backside back to school, the school expected her to be doing double homework. It was really the homework and not the attendance issues that drove her out of high school.</p>
<p>But somehow, I think this isn’t the kind of information that PromotionMan was looking for.</p>