Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-12-25
Don't Play Hockey.

Ben. Goache, youth Of Is vintry blasts,
was up before Judge Donnsly last week for
repeated truancy. He is an adeptat the bus
iBess defying alike parents and teachers.
Truant officer Burns took the case in hand
and as this is the first arrest in this line and
the boy deemed not altogether incorrigible,
the Judge was lenient. letting him on with
a severe repremand and promise of the Re-
form School at Lancaster II the practice is
persisted in.
The attendance at the schools is not what it
should be when the enumeration is consider
ed. Hunting. fishing and other pastimes of
Iaziness have more attraction for the average
bog than a school house and plodding brain.
II permitted to be indulged through misguid-
ed parents or careless teachers, the present
strict statute relative to the matter is dead
letter and the schools not meeting Justly their
requirements.
That parents and guardians may know the
risk they are running in defying this law we
reproduce the following from the revised
statutes:
sEcrIoN 8. That It shall be the duty OF all truant
officers to examine into all cases Of truancy when
any such come before their notice. when request
ed to do by the superintendent Of public schools,
by the board Of education, and TO warn such tru
ants, their parents or guardians, 10 writing Of the
final consequences of truancy II persisted In and
also to noty the parent, guardian or other person
having the charge control Of any child between
the ages Of eight aud fourteen years. that the said
child is not attending any school, and to require
said parent, guardian other person to cause the
said child to atteno some recognized school within
1--WE days from said notice; and 1t shall be the duty
Of said parent guardian or other person having the
legal charge and control OF said child, to cause the
attendance Of said child at some recognized school
II said parent, guardian other person having the
legal charge and control Of said child shall wilfu
ly neglect fail or refuse to said child to at
tend some recognized school, It shan be the duty OF
said officers TO make, or cause to be made com
plant against said parent guardian or other person
having the legal charge or control Of such child In
any court OF competent Jurisdiction In the city
special village or township district In which the Of
Tense occurred, for such refusal failure neglect
and upon conviction thereof said parent guardian
or other person, as the case may be- shall be pun
ished by fine OF not less than Ave dollars nor mor'
than twenty dollars, the court may in it's discre
ton, require persons 80 convicted to give bonds IL
the penal sum Of one hundred dollars, with one OF
more sureties TO be approved by said court, condi
TONED that said persons 30 convicted shall caus'
the child or children under his or her legal charR'
control to attend some recognized school wtihiI
five days thereafter, and to remain at said Rcho0
during the term prescribed by law; provided that
said parent, guardian or other person In charge o
such child shall prove inability to cause said chill
to attend said recognized school, then said parent
guardian or other person shall be discharged, ano
said court, upon complaint of said truant officer
other person, that said child is Juvenile dlsorderl
person. described in section Of this act, procee
to hear such complaint and If said court shall deter
mine that said child is juvenile disorderly perso
within the meaning Of this act, such child shall
deemed guilty of ofmisdemeanor, and said court sha
thereupon sentence said child to some juvenile II
formatory; provided that no child or children owe
ten years old shall be sentenced by any court to
county chidrens home; and that, where In the iude
ment of the trustees of any euch home, it shall
declared by resolution at irregular meeting by theI
held that the character Of any child thus sentence
and kept at such home is vicious, and so bad as
be detrimen al and harmful to the habits and 90
morals OF other children at such home said trustee
are hereby authorized and empowered to remoN
Ruch child chdr to the boys industrial schot
at Lancaster, Ohio, or the girls industrial home
Delaware, Ohio, as the case may be; nor shall sue
, child or children be kept at any such home beyon
the period prescribed In section one, or until sue
child shall arrive at the age OF sixteen years. unle
n lreformstory or home. Provided, however, that sa
sentence may be suspended in the discretion of Il
court, for such time as the child shall regularly
n tend school and properly deport himself or herse
1t is further provided that II for any cause the pu
ent, guardian or other person having charge OF al
n juvenile dsorderly person. as defined in this az
shall fail to cause such juvenile dsorderly person
attend said recognized school, then coDplai
"a against such Juvenile dlsorderly person may
= made heard and tried, and determined in the saI
u manner as rovided for In case the parent plea
inability to cause said Juvenile disorderly person
attend said recognized school.