Webster Area Elementary and Middle School attendance incentives bring positive change

Webster Area eighth grade students, from left, Harley Valley and Casen Fish make root beer floats Feb. 2 at Webster Area Middle School as the class reward for having the highest average attendance for the month of January. Principal Craig Case said this is one change the school has made to help incentivize higher attendance among elementary and middle school students. Reporter & Farmer | Leyton Beardslee
Webster Area eighth grade students, from left, Harley Valley and Casen Fish make root beer floats Feb. 2 at Webster Area Middle School as the class reward for having the highest average attendance for the month of January. Principal Craig Case said this is one change the school has made to help incentivize higher attendance among elementary and middle school students. Reporter & Farmer | Leyton Beardslee

Last spring Webster Area Elementary students expressed through a questionnaire they would like to have a reward beyond acknowledgment of perfect attendance for being present each day of school.

Elementary and middle school principal Craig Case said he reviewed the school’s attendance policy and realized it was pretty rigid causing students to lose perfect attendance if they missed even a quarter of…