A school-wide attendance challenge encouraged a crucial component to success in high school, which is being present. The december attendance challenge revealed that the staff have had the highest attendance compared to the student body. While the freshman class currently has the lowest attendance.

Attendance is an important aspect of your grades and future. Missing even one day of school keeps a student from many learning opportunities.  Students who have higher attendance have higher grades and achievements in their academics. High school dropouts have been reported to have more absences, which can be tracked all the way back to kindergarten. 

Some students really struggle to come to school, whether it’s home life, procrastination, or lack of effort. So if you ever want to improve your attendance, there are many ways to get to school more often. 

One of which is to take care of yourself. Get good sleep, eat well, exercise often, and rest when you need to. Taking care of yourself can dull or eliminate the things that make you want to skip school. 

Exhaustion from school can be helped by getting adequate sleep, and sick days can be reduced by living a healthy lifestyle. 

That’s not the only reason people skip school, though; they also skip to catch up on their schoolwork.

Try to keep up with your work. Finish your work in class and avoid procrastination to keep homework from piling up. Keeping your work manageable can help you avoid missing school. If you miss a lot of days on vacation or doing things, try to plan better. Don’t plan vacations or trips on school days. You can also keep a time-manageable daily routine in order to complete everything on time.

The biggest contributor to having good attendance is motivation. To avoid absences, ways you can keep motivated to come to school.  Join clubs, make good friends, pick classes you enjoy, and think positively about the week ahead. Motivate your mind by saying things such as; wednesday is halfway through the week, and how fast the week will go by. Reward yourself at the end of the week to stay motivated to if not just go to school, not skip school.

Keeping up good attendance helps you in life and in school. You might think it’s useless right now, but in the future, you’ll regret it. Attending school makes your future brighter!