95% attedance activity-reward for going to school

by Matthew Fitzgerald
SJHS Staff Writer

After all the blood, sweat and tears students at SJHS puts forth towards school work, who wouldn’t want a reward? If you have 95% attendance for a term, the school will reward you with the option of getting out of school and watching a movie at the Spanish 8 Theater!

Of course, to earn this fabulous reward you have to fulfill a few requirements, but at least they’re pretty simple. For one, you have to have 95% attendance, which means you can only miss two days in the whole term. You also can’t have any F’s, nor unsatisfactory or needs improvement citizenship grades.

As a result of having this activity, teachers have noticed an improvement in attendance. Kathryn Crandall organized the activity and she said, “Yes, it definitely improves their attendance! They’re more motivated.” Students definitely like the 95% activity. Eric Mageno, a ninth grader said, “Who wouldn’t want to get out of school to have fun for a while?” Gavin Hurlburt said it was definitely a motivation.

Students are supervised while they’re out taking advantage of their prize. Mrs. Crandall explained they have one or more teacher per bus, supervising. The teachers make sure everybody gets on and off the bus so they don’t leave anybody, which is accomplished by checking of their names as they walk in. Mrs. Crandall proudly said that nobody has gotten in too much trouble before.