The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-15
SPEAKER BEFORE
HIGH PIT. MEET
School Man Would Preserve
Youth Of Country
PLAN In THE BILL
His Proposition VIII Be Sub.
mitted To Minnesota
Legislature.

1T Is well understood among
American educators that the Amer
lean youth after he has reached
the age Of eighteen years can lool
pretty well after hisl own business
and society; but it is also under
stood by the educators that thu
American youth under eighteen
years of age without the propel
guidance viii fall by the waysid'
and will not make good American
citizens" John N. Greer, asststan
superintendent of schools in Min
neapoEs, told the High School Par
emit Teachers association in an ad
dress at the high school assembly
room last evening.
In drafting the bill relating u
the establishment OF part tim!
schools and classes in Minnesota,
he said, I'VE have something To-
Minnesota that will work; some
thing with teeth in it.; its impor
tant aim being the conservation o
our youth. II adopted, the law vii
nry into the child life Of the stat
and will put them into school,"
He pointed out that the creates
percent of the juvenile crimes com
mitted, have been traced TO TIT
group that leave school and go II
work. After they have worked 10
a few weeks they lose interest II
their work also and soon fall by thu
wayside and become the driftwoot
of our cities and a menace to TIT
Those that leave school earl!
are the ones that>need careful guild
ance" he said. ct is true tina
many of the children leave schoo
due to the influence Of their par
ents who crave TO spend the none!
the children can earn. This snoul'
be stopped"
According to the bill, any schoo
district may establish and maintaii
voluntary part time schools
classes for the benefit OF minor
who have all the legal requirement
for attendance upon instruction u
full time schools. On or after sep
TENDER 1, 1928, any. school disuic
NAV establish and maintain part
time schools or classes for employ
ed minors under eighteen years Q
age who are regularly and legal,
ernpioyed in such school districts
and who have not completed tn
regular high school, and the Boar
~ Education of such school distric
NAV make attendance upon 1nstruc
tion in such a school or class com
nuisory upon such employed minors
On and after September !, 1924, IN
hoard of education of any city Il
the first class shall establish an
maintain such part time schools o
cl,eses and shall make attendanc
upon instruction IN such school o
class compulsory, upon all minor
under seventeen years OF age wn
are regularly and legally employs
in each school district and WIN
have not completed the regula
high school. On and after Septem
Der 1, 1925, the board or educatio,
of any city Of the first class shal
make attendance upon sucn part
time schools or classes compulsor
upon all such minors under elgn
teen years OF age. ,;-o
All employed minors require
under Section l OF this act 10 a
tend any compulsory part ~, ti 4
school or class, shall attend out Q
sbe time given to employment, no
less than four nor more than eigh
honrs per week or a total OF no
less than IA, nor more than ~
hours ,,er year; and such attend
ance shall be required only afte
81 M. and before $3.50 P. M. upol
working day or days, not includ
inc Saturday afternoon. In no cas-
areIl the sum of the NUMBER
honrs daily and weekly any mlno
;s emnloyed and the number Q
hours daily and weekly he is re
o,,ired by this act to give TO part
fsSns instruction exceed the tota
nnTnber Of hours he may legal
he employed daily and weekly.
NAV Distribute Hours.
The board Of education or an
school district may, with the ap
proyal of the state board OF Voca
tioraI education, distribute the 10
TAI number OF hours OF compuisor
Attendance upon part time instruc
tion required annually in any otne
way than the weekly basis nereln
before provided, necessary 70 NEE
special conditions. The compulsor
regulations of this act regaroln
tte attendance of minors upo
mart. time instruction, shall not b
\ refroactiye upon any minor enter
inc mon employment previous I
tbe date when the regulations con
corning him became effective unde
In any school district where com
uulsory part time schools or classe
are established and maintaine
under the provisions OF this act, a
minors under eighteen years OF ag
residing in such district, who ar
not regularly and legally employe
and who have not completed IN
regular high school, shall. unles
specifically exempted by law,
required on or after september
1898. either to attend FULL time IN
struction or to attend compui
sorry part time school or class. a
minors. required under this act
aiferd mart time instruction, sha
when out OF employment, be re
Gnired to attend either The part