Monday, May 29, 2017

KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL senior finishes perfect attendance streak

(Via Dave Herndon, The News-Herald Newspapers)

When school is over for Kennedy High School seniors, Dylan Jones will have attended 2,227 consecutive days. That’s every single day between kindergarten and the end of his senior year.

“What a neat kid,” Supt. Ben Williams said.

Jones was more consistent than a postal worker, going to school through rain and snow and any various illness he had.

“I’ve never been so severely sick that I couldn’t do anything that day,” he said.

His mother, Stacy Jones said that on the rare occasion he did get sick, it was always on a Friday afternoon.

“He’d be better by Monday,” she said.

Appointments and other errands that needed to be run were always scheduled for later in the day.

Dylan said it wasn’t a goal he personally set, but more one his mother Stacy Jones had from the time he was born.

“She decided when she was in high school that she was going to have a kid who didn’t miss a day of school,” Dylan joked.

“He’s a very good student,” Stacy Jones said. “He’s on the honor roll.”

Dylan said he wasn’t involved in a lot of clubs while he was in school, so he never wanted to miss an opportunity to see his friends.

“I was in art club for awhile,” he said, “but not much else.”

The reason he wasn’t in many extracurricular activities was he was focusing on his education, taking courses at Wayne County Community College.

“I’ve got a full year of college finished already,” he said.

It wasn’t always easy to make it to school every day.

“There were a few days when I hit the snooze button and had to rush to get there on time,” Dylan said.

In the fall he is off to Eastern Michigan University to study nursing, like his mother did.

“He’s hoping that some group will offer some type of scholarship or something to help with room and board for next year,” Stacy Jones said. “He’s got a full academic scholarship already. It would take over an hour and a half to commute, in good weather.”

He will have a work-study job to help offset those costs as well.

Outside of school he spent years studying karate, drums and the guitar.


“He’s a very dedicated student,” Stacy Jones said.

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