TAMPA (FOX 13) -
It's awfully hard to be perfect – but not for nine recent
high school graduates.
The group from different Hillsborough County
schools scored a perfect attendance.
But we're not talking this past year. We're talking
about kindergarten through senior year.
They never missed a single day.
"There must be something in the water," Heather Koch of King High
School said about the achievement. "I don't know,
just my mom always telling us to go to school, encouraging us, yes."
Even through sick days, the students say they kept pushing.
"For sure, I've been sick but I just pushed through and woke
up," Durant's Samuel Nowakowski said. "I didn't want all that make-up work. I'm
a dedicated person, and I wanted to make sure I cam every day."
But preventing make-up work wasn't the only perk.
Each of these nine students was awarded $500 in savings from
Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union, and they got laptop computers from Toyota of
Tampa Bay.
They're also in the running to win a car from Toyota, which will be
given away Saturday.
