It\u2019s hard to even conceive of anyone having perfect attendance from kindergarten all the way through senior year of high school.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It takes supreme dedication to the process, and James Dusek has it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe advantages of never missing a day is that I\u2019m always there, so I always understand, I never need to make up work, I never need to review, I usually always know what\u2019s going on so I\u2019m never lost of confused or behind,\u201d said James, a senior at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Where does that motivation to just show up every day come from? It\u2019s a family tradition; his older sister also never missed a day of school.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust pushing yourself out of bed in the morning is just the start you need,\u201d James explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That work ethic and mature-beyond-his-years outlook carry over to everything James does, fueling his ambition to be an aerospace engineer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI never saw school as a burden; it\u2019s always just an opportunity,\u201d James said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year, Broward County Public Schools has two more students graduating with unblemished attendance, and they\u2019re identical twins.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone knows Jayden and Jovaun Stevens at South Plantation High School. The brothers motivate each other, with a huge push, they say, from their mom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether she was coming home from work late or going early, she made sure we were up and at school on time,\u201d Jovaun said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They\u2019re each in the top 10 of the senior class, but they see absolutely nothing special about their record of showing up every single day.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d they answered in unison.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just what I need to do, every day,\u201d Jayden said, speaking for both of them.<\/p>\n
The benefits of never missing a class are obvious, the brothers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t miss my school work, so I don\u2019t have to turn it in late,\u201d Jayden said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially those tests, I know my math teacher likes to make the makeup tests harder, I know she does,\u201d Jovaun added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James, Jayden and Jovaun are an employer\u2019s dream. The twins went back and forth on that topic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll just show up,\u201d said Jayden.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo the best that I can,\u201d Jovaun said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re never gonna have to worry about, OK, am I gonna bail on you, I\u2019ll just always be there,\u201d Jayden added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWilling and able,\u201d Jovaun said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All three students plan on keeping that same mindset through college. The twins are going to Gainesville to study veterinary medicine at the University of Florida. James wants to major in aerospace engineering at UCF.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to even conceive of anyone having perfect attendance from kindergarten all the way through senior year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25530,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-266316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county-public-schools","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}