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DOUGLAS COU^ty SENTINEL, DQUGLASVILLS GSQjtQlA.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1919.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTEND
ANCE
Duty of Parent .and Guardian, En
rollment and Attendance of Child
Excuse of Absences.
Sec. 171. Every parent, guardian
<ar other person having charge and con
trol of a child between the ages of
eight and fourteen years, who is not
exempted or excused as hereinafter
provided, shall cause said child to- be
enrolled in and to attend continuous
ly for six months of each year a public
school of the district or of city or
town in which the child resides; which
period of attendance shall commence
at the beginning of the first term of
aaid school in the year. Such attend
ance at a public schpol shall not be re
quired where the child attends for the
same period some other school giving
instruction in the ordinary brandies
of English education, or lar. completed
the seventh grade of ^’nool work as
prescribed by the State Board of Edu
cation, or where, for good reasons, the
sufficiency of which shall be determ
ined b\\the board of education of the
county or of the city or t jwn in which
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the child resides, the said board ex
cuses temporarily the child from such
attendance, such boards authorized to
take into consideration the seasons for
agricultural labor and the need for
such labor, in exercising their discre
tion as to the time for which children
in farming districts shall be excused.
Provided, that no guardian shall be
compelled»to send such child or chil
dren to school out of any other than
the funds belonging to the ward or
wards. Temporary absence of any
child enrolled as a pupil may be ex
cused by the principal or teacheP in
charge of the school, because of bad
weather, sickness, death in the child’s
family, or other reasonable cause.
^Sec. 172. Any parent, guahiian or
other person who has charge and con
trol of a child between the ages aforev
said , and who wilfully fails to com
ply with the foregoing requirements
shall be guilty of a misdeweanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine not toexceed ten dollars for
the first offense, and not to exceed
twenty dollars for each subsequent of
fense, said fines to include all costs:
but the court trying^he case may, in
its discretion, suspend enforcement of
the punishment, if the child be im
mediately placed in attendance at a
school as aforesaid, and may finally
remit the same if such attendance has
continued regularly for the number of
months hereinbefore prescribed for
attendance. School attendance may
be proved by an attested certificate of
the principal or teacher in charge of
the school. No person shall be prose
cuted for violation of the foregoing
requirements unless the board of edu
cation of the county or municipality
in which the person accused of such
violation resides shall have caused to
bo be served upon the accused, at least
ten days before prosecution, a written
notice of the charge with the name of
the child to which it refers. Any per
son so notified, not previously con
victed of violation of this Act as to
the child referred to in said notice,
may prevent prosecution on the charge
set out therein, by giving, at any time
before such prosecution is instituted,
a bond in the penal sum of fifty dol
lars payable to the Ordinary of the
county, with security to be aproved by
the Ordinary, conditioned that the
said person shall thenceforth faith
fully comply with the requirements
of this section as to the saicj child.
Each day’s wilful failure of a parent,
guardian or other person in charge
and control of a child as aforesaid, af
ter the expiration of ten days from
such notice, to cause the clpl^ to at
tend school, when such attendance 13
required by this section, shall consti
tute a seperate offense. In prosecu
tions under this section the exemp-
j tions and excuses herein provided for
,shall be matters of defense to be es-
| tablished by the accused, and need not
1 be negatived in the indictment or ac
cusation.
Duties of Board of Education and
Teachers
1 Sec. 173. It shall be ttye duty of
i the County and Municipal Boards of
j Education to investigate as to the at-
' tendance and non-attendance of chi
ldren required by this section to at-
j tend the schools under their super
vision, and it shall also be their duty
j to institute or cause to be instituted
i prosecutions against persons violating
this section. It shall be the duty of
the princip-al or teacher in charge of
any public school, in which pupils be
tween the ages of eight and fourteen
years of age are instructed, to keep
an accurate record of the attendance
of such pupils, and at the end of each
month to make a written report of the
same to the Board of Education hav
ing supervision of the school, and to
note therein excused absences -Qnd the
reasons therefor.
Attendance Officer
Sec. 174. Each County and Mu
nicipal Board of Education shall em
ploy an attendance officer whose duty
it shall be to report to the Board of
Education failure of attendance cn
the part of pupils between the ages
of 8 and 14 years. For this service
these, officials shall be paid not less
than one dollar nor more than three
dollars per day during the time em
ployed and said payment shall be paid,
so far as possible, from the fees col
lected. The balance due shall be paid
from the school funds of the county
or local system. Any Board or local
school system failing to comply with
this law for attendance officer shall
not be entitled to receive' funds from
the State Treasury until it has shown
that said attendance officer has been
appointed and has entered upon his
duties.
Fines and Forfeitures a Part of School
Fund
Sec. 175. All fines imposed here
under and all sums required to be paid
as penalties under bonds given under
this, section, shall, after payment of
the costs of prosecution and of the re
covery thereof, be paid into the county
treasury and become a part of the
school fund of the county.
Law Effective, When
Sec. 176. The provisions of this
Act shall become operative on the
first day of January, in the year nine
teen hundred and twenty.
R. A. M. NOTICE
Special meeting of R. A. M. Chapter
for work in Royal Arch Degree Tues
day night, Dec. 16th. All R. A. M.
members urged to attend.
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