MOM WON’T LET KID ACCEPT ‘PERFECT ATTENDANCE’ AWARD

A U.K. author is making waves with a recent parenting decision: Rachel Wright won’t allow 10-year-old son JJ to accept a perfect-attendance award from school. In a blog post, she outlines the reasons JJ won’t be accepting the award:
1. It was Wright’s responsibility to get JJ to school each day, not his.
2. One should not be rewarded for the “luck” of not getting sick.
3. In her house you are not encouraged to spread germs when you are not well.
Rachel writes, “Can you imagine a work place that at the end of each week marked out all the people who hadn’t been sick? Where all the departments with the least number of people off were rewarded – in front of everyone else? It happens in schools all the time. Can you imagine what kind of atmosphere that would create with people who had days off because of bereavement, mental health problem or chronic conditions? What on earth are we teaching our kids about value and worth? What are we teaching them about looking out for each other and looking after the sick or disabled in our community?”
* So, reason number 4: Mom’s an attention whore.
* Is she OK with them mailing the kid a certificate?
* This must have happened on Blow Everything Out of Proportion Day. Oh, wait – that’s now every day.
* It’s almost as if school isn’t a realistic representation of life in the outside world.
* Imagine this poor kid as an adult: “Mom, I just found a cure for cancer.” “Oh, think you’re better then everyone else, do ya?
* PHONE TOPIC: Do perfect attendance awards encourage kids to go to school sick?