Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-09-01
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
NOTICE
To Parents. Guardians and Others
in Elmore County.

In Elmofe county.
The following are the provisions
of the school law of Idaho. Session
Laws, 1911, designed for those who
are inclined to unjustly deprive their
children of the advantages OF fair
common school education.
ENCOURAGING DELINQUENCY A
MISDEMEANOR
| Section l59. In all cases where
any child shall be delinquent child,
| a juvenile delinquent, or a juvenile
disorderly person, as defined by this
Act, the parent OF parents, legal
guardian, or person having custody
of such child, or any other person
responsible for, or by any act en-
| couraging, causing or contributing
to the delinquency of such child,
shall be guilty OF misdemeanor and
upon trial and conviction thereof
shall be fined in a sum not to ex-
coed 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
Imprisonment The Court may i'm
pose conditions upon any person
found guilty under this Act, and SO
long az such person shall comply
Herewith to the satisfaction of the
Iourt, the sentence 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,
geography and arithmetic. In such
districts, every parent, guardian or
other person having charge of any
child between the ages of eight (S)
and eighteen (18) years, shall send
such child to a public, private or
parochial 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
90 grade, or may be eligible to enter
any high school in such district, or
where it's 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
If reputable physician within the
district shall certify in writing that
the childs bodily or mental condi-
tion does not permit its attendance
at school, such child shall be exempt
during such period of disability from
the requirements of this chapter.
It shall be the duty of the superin-
tendent of the school district, If there
be such superintendent. and IL 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 appli-
cation 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
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 superinten-
dent so passing upon such applica
ton, to the probate court of the
county in which such district lies
upon such child making such appli
cation 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 ($1.0O)
shall be charged, and the decision of
the probate court shall be final. An
application for release from the pro-
visions of this chapter shall not be
renewed oftener than once in three
months.
JUVENILE DISORDERLY PERSONS
DEFINED,
Section 161. Every child within
the provisions of this chapter who
does not attend school, as provided
in the preceding section, or who Is in
attendance at any public, private or
parochial school, and is vicious, In
corrigible or immoral in conduct, or
who is an habitual truant from
school, or who habitually wanders
about the streets and public places
during school hours without lawful
occupation or employment, or who
habitually wanders about the streets
IN the night time, having no en-