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Coming to school has its benefits. Aside from being enriched by education, apparently you can also earn a car. At least that's what happened to Michigan's Andria Baker. According to this article that BoardBuzz came across via AOL.com, Baker's father promised her a car for perfect attendance. What's remarkable is that it wasn't just perfect attendance for one year, or even her entire high school career -- no, Baker never missed a day of school in her life!

At a party Sunday, her father, Tim, presented the young woman with the keys to a new, $17,000 Pontiac G6, complete with a "0 DAYS" personalized license plate. "Without a doubt, it was worth every penny I spent," he said. The look on his daughter's face when she saw the car was priceless, Tim Baker said. "When she turned around after seeing the car, she did not know what to do," he said. "We got her into the car and she just sat there. Then she ran into the house to get her driver's license, and she and her best friend got in the car and tooled down the road." Andria Baker, 19, said she probably would have gone ahead with her quest for perfect attendance even if a new car had not been promised. "A lot of my friends thought I was crazy, but I just kept going," she said.

So . . . BoardBuzz wonders, how many days of school did you miss over your 13-year career?

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).