Give me a break!

How does this kid have such good PR that a story is written of their perfect attendance through High School?  The article called 20 schools and came up with another person that same year that did it, so why the eff does this person warrant an article?  While it's not something that consumes my soul, I am pissed from that day when they were giving out senior awards and my name didn't get called for perfect attendance even though I never missed a day.  It sucks when some teacher can make an error that can screw up something I didn't even care to be recognized for in the first place.  But to see a full article get written up on this girl just makes me want to punch something.  This is probably all going in some stupid college essay and it's obviously complete BS, but I guess some newspaper wanted a feel-good story that would also really piss me off.