Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-09-22
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE NOTICE

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE NOTICE
To parents, guardians and others
in the various school districts of Bear
Lake county, Idaho:
The following are the provisions
IF the school law of Idaho, Session
laws, 1911. designed for those VINO
ato inclined to unJustly deprive thor
children of the advantages of n fair
common school education:
l,nC ouraging Delinquency Misdc-
meanor
SECTION 1859. In all cases where
any child shall be delinquent child,
a Juvenile delinquent person, or
Juvenile disorderly person, as defined
by this act, the parent or parents, le
gal guardian, or person having GUS
tody of such child, or any other per-
son responsible for, or by any act en-
eouraging, causing or contributing to
the delinquency of such child. shall
be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon
trial and conviction thereof shall be
fined in q sum not to exceed Three
Hundred Dollars $4,000, or impris-
onment in the county jail for period
of not exceeding six months, or shall
suffer both fine and imprisonment.
The Court may impose conditions up
ON any person found guilty under
this act, and so long as such person
shall comply Herewith to the salts
faction of the court. the sentence i'm
posed may be suspended.
Children to Attend School
SECTION 100. IN all districts of
this state, all parents, guardians, and
other persons having care OF children
shall instruct them, or cause them to
be instructed. in reading, writing,
spelling, English grammar, geo
graphy and arithmetic. In such dis
tricts, every parent, guardian or
other person having charge of any
child between the ages of eight (81
and eighteen (18) years, shall send
such child to public, private or pa
rochial school for the entire school
year during which the public schools
are in session in such district; pro-
vided, however, That this chapter
shall not apply to children over four
teen (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 dis
srict, or where its help is necessary
for its own use or its parents sup
port or where for good cause shown
1t would be for the best interest OF
sU~A 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. 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. It 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 applications Of children desiring
for any of the causes mentioned here
to be exempted from the provisions
of this chapter, and il upon such APP
plication such superintendent. hear
ing the same, shall be of the opinion
that such child for any reason is en-
titled to be exempted as aforesaid,
then such superintendent shall issue
a written permit to such child, stat
ing therein his reason for such ex-
emption. An appeal may be taken
from the decision OF such superin-
tendent SO passing upon such appli-
cation, to the probate court of the
county in which such district lies up
on such child making such applica-
tion~ and filing the same with the
clerk or Judge of said court, within