Also it encourages people to attend school with communicable diseases. Which then spread and can lead to disability, hospitalization, or death in at-risk people. Deeply concerning and makes me very angry

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This one girl didn’t miss a single day k-8th and was going to get an award. Her grandfather died and she missed one day. They didn’t give her the award and no one won it that year, and she had perfect attendance in high school but couldn’t get the k-12 award because she was attending a funeral.

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Schools are always so f*cked with their awards systems. The richest girl in my grade was awarded like six scholarships because of “leadership qualities,” meanwhile I had friends in honors classes who couldn’t buy lunches

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i literally had cancer. always hated that award. also, i feel bad for the kids who didn’t miss a day tbh

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