The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-09
COMPULSORY SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE MEASURE
DUTY OF PARENT AND GUAR.
DIAN. ENROLMENT AND AT.
TENDANCE OF CHILD. EX-
CUSE AND ABSENCES.

Under the provisions of the act
passed at the last session of the leg
islature the following is published as
required:
Sec. III. Every parent, guardian
or other person having charge and
control Of child between the ages of
eight and fourteen years, who is not
exempted or excused as hereinafter
provided, shall cause said child to be
enrolled in and to attend continuous
ly for six months of each year pub
lie school of the district or of city or
town in which the child resides
which period of attendance shall COM
gaence at the beginning of the first
term of said school in the year. Such
attendance at public school shall
not be required where the child at
tends for the same period some other
school giving instructions in the ordl-
nary branches of English education,
or has completed the seventh grade OF
school work as prescribed by the
State Board of Education, or where,
for good reasons, the sufficiency of
which shall be determined by the
board of education of the county or
of the city or town in which the child
resides, the said board excuses tenn
porarily the child from attendance,
such boards authorized to take into
consideration the seasons for agricul-
tural labor and the need for such la
Dor, in exercising their discretion as
to the time for which children in
farming districts shall be excused.
Provided, that no guardian shall be
compelled to send such child or chill
dren to school out of any other than
the funds belonging to the ward or
wards. Temporary absence of any
child enrolled as a pupil may be ex-
cused by the principal or teacher IN
charge of the school, because of bad
weather, sickness, death in the child's
family, or other reasonable cause.
Penalty for Noncompliance. Suspen-
sion of Punishment. Notice Board.
Sec. 172. Any parent, guardian or
other person who has charge and con-
troll Of child between the ages
aforesaid, and who wilfully fails to
comply with the foregoing require
ments shall be guilty of misdemea-
nor, and on conviction thereof shall
be punished by fine not to exceed
ten dollars for the first offense, and
not to exceed twenty dollars for each
subsequent offense, said fines to in
cludes all costs; but the court trying
the case may, in its discretion, sus-
pend enforcement of the punishment,
if the child be Immediately placed in
attendance at school as aforesaid,
and may finally remit the same if
such attendance has continued regu-
larly for the number of months here
inhefore prescribed for attendance.
School attendance may be proved by
an attested certificate of the princi-
pal or teacher in charge of the school.
No person shall be prosecuted for
violation of the foregoing require
ments unless the board of education
of the county or municipality in
which the person accused of such vlo-
lation resides shall have caused to be
served upon the accused, at least ten
days before prosecution, a written
notice of the charge with the name !
of the child to which it refers. Any
person so notified, not previously
convicted of violation Of this act as
to the child referred to in said notice,
NAV prevent prosecution on the
charge set out therein by giving, at
anv time before such prosecution is
instituted, bond in the penal sum of
fifty dollars payable to the Ordinary