(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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