Attendance Matters: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due! An Inspirational Teacher. Makes All The Difference!

This Is Most Demonstrative when it comes to Attendance and non attendance and who is Making All The Difference; to whom is attendance attributed

The Institution of Education it's Leadership and the learning environment apparently The Biggest Factor Contributing To Attendance and non attendance?

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Post; All 'Here': Fifth Grade Class Has Perfect Attendance for Year CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Denisa McBee's fifth-grade class was just perfect this year. All 21 of the students in her Mathis Intermediate School class in Corpus Christi earned perfect attendance honors, answering a challenge that began after no one missed class for the first two weeks. McBee challenged them to make it six weeks, then a semester, then a year. And they did it — for 175 days. "The kids felt awful some days but were determined to do this," McBee said in a story for Monday's Corpus Christi Caller-Times. "One child was in a car accident with his father on a Sunday. We had Monday off, but he came limping in on Tuesday," McBee said. She said the students learned about dedication and commitment, their grade-point averages increased and she never had to re-teach a lesson to absent students. McBee said she never had to bribe the students. "It wasn't like if you do it, you get this," she said. "All they got was recognition, and that was enough for them." Along the way they road in a holiday parade, had a picnic and went to movies to celebrate their accomplishments. The final celebration was an overnight camping trip at Lake Mathis on May 30. McBee joked that she was afraid no one would want to be in her class next year. "I just happened to have a group of kids who had the initiative to come up with this idea and do it," she said. "Every year your group of kids is different. I'd never put pressure on kids or tell them you have to do this. According to the Texas Administrative Code, a student must be in the classroom for at least two hours to be considered present. School administrators said if a student is in class until 10 a.m., he or she is counted present. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,367350,00.html

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senojekips Tribunus Laticlavius	More teachers like Mrs McBee. Now there's a teacher who can relate to kids, I think that she's worth a pay rise. __________________ "Too thick to change, and too old to care" http://www.geocities.com/senojekips/Index.htm

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AikiRooster Centurion Gear	Yeah, obviously she was doing something right and knows how to get production from folks, kids no less, even harder probably than adults. These are our future leaders, at the very least, the attendance is great and sets a great example for themselves in their future and for others, kids and adults.

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Sevens Forum Brat Gear	Awesome. __________________ Woe to the man or woman who thinks that the capacity to kill is not lurking behind these civilized eyes. -- James Woods Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can't lose.

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Del Boy Tribuni Angusticlavii	Inspirational teacher. Makes all the difference. __________________ . I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing . Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race.