100% attendance prizes.

[vintageteacups]

I'm sure it's not me and dh but I cannot believe that primary schools actually make a huge deal of giving out prizes to children with 100% attendance.

For goodness sake - it's punishing the children who have been ill or been to hospital. In the assembly this morning, they actually added on 2 more children who's parents had obviously complained as their kids couldn't have their hospital apps at any other time than in the day! I mean - who gives a toss?!

My kids came home and without us saying anything, dd said she thought it was really unfair to punish her because she had been to hospital and had been off sick.

Out of 250 kids, 12 got the book prizes. It's basically just to make the parents feel utterly bad for keeping them at home.

Well fine - next time dd is throwing up, I'll send her in so she can vomit all over their carpet and not mine!

Still can't see what all the fuss is about - one way or another all the children in schools these days will get an award for something but having 100% attendance or punctuality is a very good thing and something that all pupils should strive for.....
Sorry to those parents who have children with chronic illnesses but that's life - the schools could factor in average % days absence for each year group to make it a bit more fair....But it's not as if it's everyone bar the ones with chronic illness who get the awards. Get the impression that children are going to become increasingly immune to bugs as they rise through the school. DS who got 100% attendance this year had 13 days off sick in Reception through sickness bugs etc.... took it to be because of poor hygiene and all the new children's bugs he was exposed to in Reception!
In the scheme of things it is of little consequence and nothing that will be remembered from one year to the next so not sure why you take such offence to it.
At the end of the day in this day and age all the children will be awarded certificates for some spurious reason or another and we all know it's worked like that....Does it really matter?