The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
COMPULSORY IN 1920
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ments shall be guilty of misde-
meanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine not to
exceed ten dollars for the first Of
Tense, and not to exceed twenty dol
lars for each subsequent offense, said
fines to include all costs; but the
court trying the case may, in its dis
erection, suspend enforcement of the
punishment, if the child be imme-
diately placed in attendance at a
school as aforesaid, and may finally
remit the same if such attendance
has continued regularly for the num-
Der of months hereinbefore prescrib-
ed for attendance School attend
ance may be proved by attested GER
tificate of the principal or teacher in
charge of the school. No person shall
be prosecuted for violation of the
foregoing requirements unless the
board of education of the county or
municipality in which the person ac-
cused of such violation resides shall
have caused to be served upor the ac-
cused, at least ten days before prose-
>cution, 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, may prevent prosecution
on the charget set out therein, by
giving, at any time before such prose-
cution is instituted, a bond in the
penal sum of fifty dollars payable to
the Ordinary of the county, with
security to be approved by the Ordin-
airy, conditioned that the said per-
son shall henceforth faithfully COM
ply with the requirements Of this sec
ton as to the said child. Each days
willful failure of a parent, guardian
or other eprson in charge and control
of child as aforesaid, after the eX-
piration of ten days from such no.
tice, to cause the child to attend
school. when such attendance is re-
quired by this section, shall consti-
tute a separate offense. In prose-
cution under this section the exemp-
tons and excuses herein provided for
shall be matters of defense to be
established by the accused, and need
no the negatived in the indictment or
Duties of Boards of Education and
Teachers
Sec 173. 1t shall be the duty Of
the County and Municipal Boards of
Education to investigate as to the at
tendance and non-attendance of chill
dren required by this section to at
tend the schools under their supervis-
ion, and it shall be their duty to in
stitute or cause to be instituted pros
ecutions against persons violating
this section. 1t shall be the duty of
the principal or teacher in charge of
any public school, in which pupils be-
tween the ages of eight and four
teen years of age are instructed, to
keep an accurate record of the at
tendance of such pupils, and at the
end of each month to make a writ
ten report of the same to the Board
of Education having supervision of
the school, and to note therein ex-
cused absences and the reasons
therefor.
Attendance Officer
Sec. TIA. Each County and NUM-
cipal Board of Education shall en-
ploy an attendance officer whose duty
it shall be to report to the Board of
Education failure of attendance on
the part of pupils between the ages
of 8 and IA years. For this service
these officials shall be paid not less
than one dollar nor more than three
dollars per day during the. time en-
ployed and said payment shall be
paid, so far as possible, from the
fees collected. The balance due shall
be paid from the school funds of the
county or local system. Any Board
or local system failing to comply with
this law for attendance officer shall
not be entitled to receive funds from
the State Treasury until it is shown
that said attendance officer has been
appointed and has entered upon his
duties.
Fines and Forfeitures a Part of
School Fund
Sec. 175. All fines imposed here
under and all sums required to be
paid as penalties under bonds given
under this section, shall, after pay
ment of the costs of prosecution and
OF recovery thereof, be paid into the
county treasury and become a part
of the school fund of the county.