He had gone so infrequently in the past that they did not aim for perfect attendance immediately.
Students can be recognized for perfect attendance at the end of each year.
At graduation last year, there was a long list of students with perfect attendance.
"Then for the mayor to turn around and actually say he had perfect attendance is equally ridiculous."
But then I thought perfect attendance is not such a bad behavior to reward.
The deputy must have a near perfect attendance throughout their year.
"I think we had perfect attendance for a year until we joined."
Each pupil having perfect attendance was given a silver dollar at the end of the school year.
A year's perfect attendance in school wins a student a $100 savings bond.
I do not support this approach to encouraging perfect attendance and thought I had changed the policy in 1984.