The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
TRUANT SCHOOLS.
The New Amendments Of tho Compulsory
Education Act Providing for Them.

EDUCATION Act frOviulng Tor 1hems
GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR COMPULSORY sDU-
CATION.
The act is No. IA, provides for the com
puisory education of children In certain
cases, and takes effect Sept z, 1888.
Section provides that every parent etc,
| shall send his children between and IA to
public or private school at least four
months each year, six weeks OF which must
| be consecutive.
Section provides that no child under IA
shall be employed to labor in any business,
unless such child shall have attended some
public or private school four months out OF
the year Just preceding.
Section 3 provides that all children over
5 and under IL temporarily discharged from
emplo ment shall be sent to day-school by
their parents or guar dians.
Section makes it the duty of School
Boards to furnish books TO pupils where
parents are unable to buy them; and section
D provides that parents, guardians, etc.,
violating any OF the foregoing provisions
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
shall on conviction, be fined not less than
| 81 nor more than o for the first offense,
and not less than $40 for each subsequent
| offense.
The above are the general provisions for
compulsory education, while the follow
ing remaining sections of the act are special
provisions for truant schools
SEC d In all cities and villages or 5,OOo
and upward, the Board of Education, or
such other. officer or officers having charge
of the schools of said cities, townships, and
villages, may establish one or more un-
graded schools for the instruction OF chill
dren and defined and set forth in the fol-
lowing sections
SEC !. All persons between the ages of 5
and IA years who are habitual truants from
school, or who. while in attendance Mt any
public school, are incorrigible, vicious, or
immoral in conduct, and all persons be-
tween such ages who absent themselves
from school and habitually wander about
streets and public places having no busi-
ness or lawful occupation, shall be deemed
juvenile disorderly persons, and subject to
the provisions of this act
SEC & In all cities having q duly organ
lied police force it shall be the duty OF the
police authority, ut the request OF the school
authority TO detail one or more members or
said force Co assist N the enforcement or
this act, and in cities or villages having no
regular police force it shall be the duty OF
the Board OF Education, or the school dis
trict officers, TO designate one or more con-
| Stables of said city, township, or village,
whose duty it shall be TO assist in the en-
forcement of this act as occasion may re-
quire, and said Board of Education shall fix
and determine the compensation 10 be paid
such constable for the performance or his
duties under this act Members OF any
police force, or any constable designated Ia
assist in the enforcement of this act, as pro-
| Nlueu In ,tnlS secJlOn, Snal DC hnoWu u
tluant officers.
SEC g. 1t shall be the duty of any such
truant officer or officers detailed to enforce
the provisions of this act, to examine into
any case of truancy, when requested TO do
so by the District Board or by its authorized
officers, and to warn such truants, their
parents or guardians, in writing, of the final
consequences of truancy il persisted in, and
also to notify the parent, guardian, or other
person having the legal charge and control
OF any juvenile disorderly person, that the
said person is not attending any school, and
to require said parent guardian, or other
person, TO cause the said child TO attend tie
ungraded school, established as provided
for in this act, within five days from said
notice, and it shall lie the duty of said
parent, guardian, or other person having
the legal charge and control Of said
said child at the ungladed school
established in the city or village. II
said parent, guardian or other person hav-
ing the legal charge and control of said
child to attend said ungraded school, II
shall be the duty of said officer to make OIL
cause to be made n complaint against said
person, guardian or other person having the
legal control and charge of such person
before Justice of the Peace in the city
where the party resides, except in the city
of Detroit, where complaint shall be made
In the Recorders Court thereof, Tor sucf
refusal or neglect, and upon conviction
thereof said parent, guardian or other per
son, as the case may be, shall be punished
by fine of not less than $40, nor more thar
SO, or the count may, in its discretion, re
quire the person so convicted to give bono
in the penal sum of slO0 with one or NOR,
sureties TO be approved by said court, con
ditioned that said person so convicted shal
cause the child or children under his leba
charge or control, TO attend at the un
graded school within five DAYS thereafter
and ain 81 said school 1nrinU the ful
term PrOVided That III said parent, o.
guardian, or other person in charge of sale
child, shall prove inability to cause sale
child to attend said ungraded school, theI
said parent, or guardian, or other person
} shall be discharg ed, and said Justice of thu
Peace or court shall, upon complaint o
, said truant officer, or other person, tina
said child is n juvenile disorderly person
as described in section OF this act, pro
J coed to hear such complaint, and if salt
Justice OF the Peace or court shall deter
mine that said child is juvenile disorder
ly person, within the meaning of this act
then said Justice OF the Peace or cour
, shall thereupon sentence said child u
the Reform School at lansing or tn
Industrial Home for Girls at Adrian
as the case may be, for a tern
not exceeding two years, or until said chile
shall arrive at the age of 10 years, unles
sooner discharged by the Board OF Contro
of said Reform School or Industrial Hom
tence be suspended in the discretion Of sal,
Justice of the Peace or Judge of the Record
er's Court for such time as said child shal
regularly attend. school and properly depor
himself 1t is further provided that If 10
any cause the parent, or guardian, or othe
person having charge of any juvenile dis
, orderly person, as defined in this act, shal
fail TO cause such juvenile disorderly person
; to attend such ungraded schools, then com
plant against such juvenile disorderly per
son may be made, heard, tried, and deter
mined, in the same manner as provided TO
In case the parent pleads inability to caus
such juven lie disorderly person to atten,
such ungraded schools, and is further pro
, vided that no child under the age of 10 year
shall be sent to the Reform School
SEC. 10. In case any child, while in at
tendance upon any public school, shall b
incorrigible. vicious, and persistentiy lie
fuses to obey any reasonable rule for tn
government of said school, the schoo
authorities may direct said child to atten,
at the ungraded school provided for in thi
act; and any such child who after such re
qurement shall be incorrigible, vicious u
conduct, or habitually truant from such un
graded school, may be proceeded against as
Juvenile disorderly person, under the pro
visions OF section nine of this act
SEC. IL. When it appears to the school au
> thorities that the parent, guardian or othe
person is unable To provide suitable book
fOrsSaid child said child shall be furnishe