The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-09-02
School Attendance.
NOTICE

! ttlt SGNOOi law u IldHO. I9tSSlbU LAW >,
1911. designed for those who are in
elined to unjustly deprive their chill
dren of the advantages of fair com
mon school education:
4 Encouraging Delinquency a
Misdeme1nor.
Section 159.---In AL cases where any
child shall be delinquent child, ju-
veniIe delinquent person, or juvenile
disorderly person, as defined by this
Act, the parent or parents, legal guard
ian, or person having custody of such
child, or any other person responsible
for, or by any act encouraging, causing
or contributing to the delinquency of
such child, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor, and upon trial and conviction
thereof shall be fined in a sum not to
exceed Three Hundred Dollars $4,000.
or imprisonment in the county Jail for
a period of not exceeding six months.
or shall suffer both fine and imprison-
ment. 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 NAV
be suspended.
Children to Attend School.
Section 160.--ln all districts of this
State, all parents, guardians, and other
persons having care of children shall
instruct them, or cause to be instructed,
in reading, writing, spelling, English
grammar, geography and arithmetic. In
such districts, every parent, guar dian or
other person having charge of any child
between the ages of eight (S) and eigh-
teen (1S) years, shall send such child
to public, private or parochial school
for the entire school year during which
the public schools are in session in such
district; Provided, however: That this
chapter shall not apply to children over
fourteen (14) years of age, where such
child shall have completed the eighth
| (S) grade, or may be eligible to enter
any high school in such district, or
where its help is necessary for its own
use or its 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 if reputable
physician within the district shall certi-
fly in writing that the child s bodily or
mental condition does not permit its
attendance at school, such child shall
be exempt during such period of dis
ability 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 appli-.
cations of children desiring, for any
of the causes mentioned here, to be ex-
empted from the provisions of this chap
ter, and if upon such 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 superinten-
dent so passing upon such application,
to the probate court of the county in
which such district lies upon such child
making such application and filing the
same with the clerk or judge of said
court, within ten days after its refusal
by such superintendent, for which no
fee to exceed the sum of One Dollar
| ($1.O0), shall be charged, and the decis-
ion of the probate court shall be final.
An application for release from the pro-
visions of this chapter shall not be re-
newed oftener than once in three
months.
Juvenile Disorderly Persons Defined
I Section 16l.-Every child within the
provisions of this chapter who does not
attend school, as provided in the pre-
ceding section, or who is in attendance
at any public or parochial school, and
is vicious, incorrigible or immoral in
conduct, or who is an habitual truant
from school, or who habitually wanders
about the streets and public places dur
ing school hours without lawful occupa-
ton or employment, or who habitually
wanders about the streets in the night
time, having no employment or lawful
Occupation, shall be deemed Juvenile
disorderlv person, and be subject to the
provisions of this chapter.
Same. Complaint: Hearing and
Commitment.
Section 169.-When a child shall be n
juvenile disorderly person within the
meaning of this chapter, the tluant Of
ficer, or any school teacher, or other
reputable person, may take complaint in
tho probate court of the county in which
such child resides. The probate court
shall hear aud determine such complaint
and if it is determined that such child
is a juvenile aisorderlv person within
the meaning of this chapter, he or she
shan be committed to the children s
home, If eligible, or to The Idaho Indus
trial Training School, or to some other
training school, taking into account the
years of the child with reference to the
institution selected. Any child COM
mitted to the children $ home. on its |
being shown to the Judge of said Court |
that it is ineorrigible and vicious. may
he transferred to the Industrial School |
or other proper institution. No child |
committed to any reformatory shall be |
detained beyond his majority, and may |
be discharged sooner, or paroled by the |
trustees or board of control under rules |
and restrictions applicable to other in
mates. Any order of commitment NAV |
be suspended by the judges of the pro
bate court during such time as the child |
may regularly attend school and proper
ly conduct itself. The expense of the |
of the child to the juven-
lie reformatory shall be paid by the
county from which the child is com
mitted,