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Show New attendance record attained by students at Springville High ance problems of the school in an effirt to reduce any unnecessary un-necessary absence from classes. As a result of special emphasis em-phasis being placed .on good attendance at the high school, an attendance record of better than 97 percent has been attained at-tained during the first four months of school, it was announced an-nounced this week. Commenting on the importance import-ance of good attendance records, re-cords, school officials state that from a scholastic point of view, students should attend school every day. Otherwise certain instruction is missed and quite often of necessity, credits have to be cut. Financially it is also important import-ant that students make every effort to be in school every day. It has been estimated that it costs the district approximately ap-proximately $1.25 for each day each student is absent from school,.. as .that, is the approximate approxi-mate amount alloted the district dist-rict per student per day attendance, at-tendance, by the ' state equalization equal-ization law. The fewer funds received from the state, the more money mo-ney must be provided through local taxation to run the school. It is therefore important import-ant to the student scholastic-ally scholastic-ally and to the parents and the public financially, that every ev-ery student is in school every day. As a means of improving the attendance record at the high school, a system of reducing re-ducing grades for excessive absence has proved effective. There is also a committee formed to review the attend- |