FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSLS 10) - Landon Lewis is celebrating a streak of perfect attendance for the last 14 years.
"I always went to school, there's no getting around it. I mean that's priority number one pretty much was going to school," said Landon Lewis, the Franklin County High School senior.
Regina Lewis says they cut trips short so he could get back in the classroom but luck was also on their side.
"It happened by pure luck. He got lucky a few times he did have a flu bug and it was over winter break so you didn't miss school," said Regina Lewis, his mother. "He knew he had to go to school just like I know that I have to go to work every day and he knew he had to go to school every day."
"I've had students with very good attendance but I don't believe I ever had anybody come close to 14 years of no days out," said Charles Jamison, a Franklin County teacher.
Jamison has been teaching for 35 years and has never seen a streak this long lasting from Landon's first day in pre-k through his last day as a high school senior.
"Fortunate does not explain what he's done because for all of us there are days when we don't want to go to work, I don't want to go to school, whatever. you can think of other things you'd rather be doing. For him to have overcome those temptations for 14 years is mind-boggling," said Jamison.
"There's a few days I didn't want to come to school but you have to push forward through it. You just go. That's what I've done the whole time. You just have to go," said Landon Lewis.
"I think it's a great accomplishment, I think one day when he goes for a job interview I think an employer will look at him and say 'hey you've never missed a day of school'," said Regina Lewis.
He graduates this weekend and wants to keep the streak going. The teen plans to get a job or go to Patrick Henry Community College or Virginia Western.