Attendance

Some kids chase perfect attendance for prizes, praise, or parents who check grades like blood pressure. For her, it’s simpler than that: if she’s here, then she hasn’t disappeared.With sharp humor, raw honesty, and a heartbeat of hope, “Attendance” follows one teen through a school day where showing up is both the goal and the battle, and where the bravest word she learns to say isn’t “here” at all. Sometimes surviving the day is the only grade that matters.