Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-04-28

The best laws provide for the con-
tinued attendance at school of children
below certain educational standard.
By some judges very little educational
ability will suffice to meet the test
ability to read and write English =
Massachusetts and New York make
provision for testing in the matter,
based on requirements for admission
to given grades. These states also
permit the substitution of certain
amounts Of evening work for this
compulsory attendance.
There are many private schools over
which the state has no power of in
spection. Under these circumstances
the state is debarred from passing on
the quality of education given.
There is presupposed free educa-
ton, which has been offered in Amer
lean schools for many years. In sew
eral states where free text books are
not supplied there are laws compelling
the local school board to purchase
books for needy children Text books
alone will not take child to school,
he must have clothing and meals land
recently the states of Ohio and Colo
RADIO have undertaken to supply these
in the case of needy children. The
poverty of parents may press the mat
ter farther back. In some cases it
happens that a strong, healthy child
is the support of dependent parents.
Under these conditions :, the enforce
ment of the law becomes difficult. In
many cities the organized charities
have organized special relief for just
this class of cases.
This, too, might we'll become mat
ter for state action since the state
must provide food and support or al
low the child to grow up in ignorance.
The Course of Study of the element
airy school is in many cases not yet
sufficiently adapted to the class of
children who either desire or are
obliged to earn their own living early
in life. Many parents and children
feel that the last two years of school
life are not proftably spent and many
educators realize that this is quite |
true. It is believed that this difficulty
is being overcome.
WIS. LAWS ON COMPULsoY EDUCATION |
Any person having under his control
any child between the ages of seven
and fourteen years, or any child be-
tween the ages of fourteen and six
teen years not regularly and lawfully
in any useful employment or
service at home or elsewhere, as pro-
vided by law, shall cause such child to
be enrolled in and to attend some pub
lie, parochial or private school regular
ly. Regular attendance for the pur-
pose of this statute shall be an attend
ance of twenty days in each school
month, unless the child can furnish |
some legal excuse. In cities of the
first class they must attend the entire
year. In all other cities they must at
tend not less than eight months. In
towns and villages not less than six
Any person who shall violate these
provisions shall upon conviction there
of, be punished by a fine of not less
than five dollars nor more than fifty
dollars, together with costs of prosecu-
tion or by Imprisonment in the county
Jail not exceeding three months, or by
both such fine and Imprisonment in the
discretion of the court for each offense.
The officers whose duty it is to take
the school census shall make out three
copies of such census reports and send
one of such copies by mail or other
wise to the proper superintendent on
or before the fifteenth day of July |
each year and at the time of the open
ing of the school in his district, he
shall deliver with the register, a copy |
of such census report to the teacher
employed in said district and if the
school consists of two or more depart
ments, the copy shall be placed in the
hands of the principal. All teachers
in public schools except teachers in
high schools, shall at the request of
the proper superintendent, while school
is in session report to him. Said re-
port shall show the name of the
school and its location, the name and
address of the teacher, the number OF
months school is maintained during the
year, the date of opening and closing
of the school, the names and ages OF
all children enrolled in their respective
schools between the ages of seven and
fourteen and sixteen, the names and
postoffice addresses of the parents or
other persons having control OF such
children, the number of the district
and the name Of the town, city, village,
and county in which said children re-
side, the distance said child or children