The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-08-30
TO COMPEL
ATTENDANCE
State School Law Will Be
Enforced.
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 6
Children under IS Must Go to
School and Must Not Work
in Mills.
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 6

The Graded school begins next
Tuesday, Sept and indications point
to large enrolment.
Children between the ages of four
and six may attend the kindergarten,
and any child five years old will be re-
ceived in first grade or kindergarten
according to the parents choice. Ex-
aminatons for admission to grades
seven, eight, nine and the high school
will be held in room fourteen Thurs
day and Friday, Sept lst and End at
8 a. NJ.
Any resident of the town of Benning-
ton living in districts not supporting
a high school is entitled by law to at
tend the Bennington High School, his
tuition being paid by the town. Each
candidate for admission is required to
take examinations in English, gram
mer, arithmetic, US. history, geogra-
ply, and reading.
President Eliot of Harvard ia a re-
cent report of Harvard College states
| that in the entrance examinations,
which all who enter Harvard must
pass, - per cent of those from
academies and endowed schools fail
aglius 10 per. cent of those from
public high schools The high schools
are Offering bro ad, liberal education
to all and yet as fitting schools for
colleges rank above most academies
which are making a speciality of pre-
paration for college. Bennington
High School prepares students for any
American college or technical school.
The local board of trustees will en-
force the compulsory education law
which requires all children between
the ages of eight and fifteen to attend
school beginning next week with the
school year. Children wishing to
work in the mills will be given certifi-
Gates of attendance as soon as they
have complied with the requirements
OF the law. Mill owners should de-
mand these certificates for self-pro-
lection.
The following extracts from the
Laws of Vermont will be of interest:
No child under five years of age
shall be received as pupil into any
of the public schools of the state; and
children attaining the age offive years
after the beginning of the fall term of
school year shall not be received
into the public schools until the be-
ginning of the fall term of the follow
ing year unless said children have the
written permission of the superintend-
ent of schools. School directors or
school boards may establish and main
tain one or more kindergartens into
which children under five years of age
may be received.
A person having the control of
child between the ages of eight and
fifteen years, shall cause such child to
attend a public school at least twenty
eight weeks in year, and such attend.
ance shall be continuous, beginning
with the school year, unless the child
is mentally or physically unable to at
tend, or is otherwise being furni shed
with the same education.
No child under fifteen years Of age
shall be employed in mill or factory
unless such child has attended public
school twenty-six weeks during the
current year, and deposited with the
owner or overseer of such mill or
factory certificate of such attendance
at school, signed by the teacher there
of.
Amy person violating the provis-
ions OF the three preceding SECTIONS
shall be fined not more than twenty
five dollars and not less than five dol
lars to the use of the town in which
the child resides.
The town superintendentmay inquire
of the owner or overseer of a mill or
factory IS 10 the employment of
children therein, may call for the pro-
duction of the certificate deposited
with such owner or overseer, and
satisfy himself that the requirements
of law have been complied with.