The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-30
Compulsory Education Notice.

10 Parents, Guardians and Others in
all School Districts within Ada
County, Idaho.
The following are the provisions of the
School Laws Of Idaho Session Laws
1911 designed for those inclined to un-
justly deprive their children of the ad.
vantage OF fair common school educa.
nton:
Section 159. T. 'couraging Delinquency
Mlsdemeanor. In all CAGES where any
child shall be delinquent child, a
juvenile delinquent person, or a juvenile
disorderly person, as defined by this Act,
the parent or parents, legal guardian,
or person having the custody of such
child or any other responsible for, or
have any act encouraging, causing, or
contributing to the delinquency of such
child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon trial and convection thereof
shall be fined in sum not to exceed
Three Hundred Dollars t$30O,) or i'm
prisonment in the county jail for per-
iod of not exceeding six months, or shall
suffer both fine and Imprisonment. The
Court may impose conditions upon any
person found guilty under this Act, and
so long as such person shall comply
Herewith to the satisfaction of the
Court, the sentence imposed may be
suspended.
Section loo. Children to Attend
School. In all school districts of this
state, all parents, guardians and other
persons having care of children shall in
struct them, or cause them to be in
structed, in reading, writing, spelling,
English grammar, geography and arIth-
metic. In such districts, every parent,
guardian, or other person having charge
of any child between the ages of eight
49, and eighteen (18) years, shall send
such child to public, private, or paro-
chial school for the entile school year.
during which the public schools are in
session in such district: Provided how
ever: That this chapter shall not apply
to children over fourteen Q4) years of
age, where such child shall have COM
pleted the eighth 49, grade, or may be
eligible to enter any high school in such
district, or where its help is necessary
for its own use or It's parents support,
or where for good cause shown it would
be for the best interest of such child to
be relieved from the provisions of this
chapter: Provided, further: That il
reputable physician within the district
shall certify in writing that the child's
bodily or mental conaition does not per-
NIT its attendance at school such child
shall be exempt during such period of
disability from the requirements of this
chapter. 1t shall be the duty of the
Superintendent of the School District,
if there be such superintendent, and if
not then the County Superintendent of
Schools, to hear and determine all ap-
plications of children desiring, for any
of the causes mentioned here, to be ex-
empted from the provisions of this chap
ter, and if upon sach application such
superintendent hearing the same shall
be of the opinion that such child for any
reason is entitled to be exempted as
aforesaid. then such superintendent
shall issue written permit to such
child, stating therein his reason for such
exemption. An appeal may be taken
from the decision of such superintend-
ent SO passing upon such application, to
the Probate Court of the county in
which such district lies, upon such
child making such application and FL
ing the same gith the Clerk or judge of
said court, within ten days after its re-
fusal by such superintendent, for which
no fee to exceed the sum of One Dollar
t$l.00) shall be charged, and the de-
cision of the Probate Court shall be
final. An application for release from
the provisi pns of this chapter shall not
be renewed oftener than once in three
months. Ivy Wilson,
Superintendent Public Schools
16-2t Ada County, Idaho.