Year: 1867

m making up the attendance averages
such absences shall be regarded the
same as any other absences.


2. When pupil is suspended from
school by any of the rules of the School
Board, whether for absence or for any
other cause, his name shall be stricken
from the rolls.


3. When pupil is absent from school
more than five consecutive school days
for sickness or any other cause, his
name shall be stricken from the roll at
the end of five days, and the absences
shall in all cases be recorded while the
name remains on the roll; but tins
rule shall not operate to prevent the
suspension of pupil under Rule I'd,
for number of absences, i'll which case
his name will of course be stricken
from the roll.


4. For the purposes contemplated IN
the foregoing Rules, any pupil shall be
considered absent, whose attendance al
school shall not continue for at least
one-half of tk3 regular school session
OF the half day. :,


"In noting the absences of pupils,
the short vacations of Fall, Winter and
Spring, shall be disregarded; and pu.
pills who are not present the hrst nan
day of term, after either OF these va
cations, shall be marked rs absent, the
same as if Saturday and Sunday were
the only intervening days"


Special rules relating to absence ana
truancy have been adopted by Boards
of Education in all the cities. Ii
may not be amiss to give the following
BOSTON.


"Wheneyer any scholar is absent
from school, tho teacher shall imme-
diately ascertain the reason; and II
such absence be not occasiOned by SICK
ness or other sufficient cause, or Is not
satisfactorily explained, such pupil,
with the consent of the subcommittee,
may be suspended or discharged IRON
the school, and record OF such pro-
ceedinrs shall be made" Truant
officers arc employed to look after va
grant and truant children.


NEW YORK.


(Act of the Legislature relating to
idle and truant children.) "lf any
children between the ages of five and
sixteen years, having sufficient bodily
health and mental capacity to attend
public schools, shall be found wandering
in the streets or lanes Of any city or in
corporated village, idle and truant,
without any lawful occupation, any
Justice Of the peace, on complaint
thereof by any citizen on oath, shall
cause such child to be brought before
him for examination, and shall also
cause the parent, guardian or master OF
such child, if she OF he have any, to be
notified to attend such examination.
And if, on such examination, the com
plaint shall be satisfactorily establish:
cd, such Justice shall require the parent,
Guardian or master to enter into an en-
gaCcment, in writing, to the corporate
authorities of the city or village, that
he will restrain said child from so wan
dering about-will keep him or her on
his own premises, or in some lawful oc-
cupation. and will cause said child to
be sent to some school, at least four
months in each year, until he or she
becomes fourteen years of age.
The school authorities in the corporate
towns or cities of the State, have adopt
ed stringent regulations compelling
regularity of attendance. In the city
of New York five persons are employed
as n special police, whose sole duty 1t IS
to look after absentecs from the public
schools.


CLEVELAND, o.


"The only excuses for tardiness or alb
sence accepted by the teacher, shall be
for sickness, or some urgent cause, rem
dering punctuality impossible or cx-
tremcly inconvcnient. Pupils absent
more than three half days in any school
month, for other causes than
those specified, unless sufficient guaran-
tees for future regularity are given,
may be suspended from school till the
commencement of the next term, unless
sooner rc-admitted by the Superintend-
ent or Board


CINCINNATI.


"Upon the return of a pupil, after
any absence, the parent or guardian
shall give, in person or in writing, an
excuse, stating the cause. If 1T shall
have been the sickness of the pupil, or
necessary attendance upon sick MEM
Der of the family, or death in the family
of the pupil, in either of such cases the
absence shall be excused.


"In every case of the absence of Il
pupil for more than three half days in
any four consecutive weeks, without
satisfactory excuse to the teacher for
any other cause than those permitted
above, the absentee shall, without eX-
ccption or favor, be suspended from the
school. and shall not be re-
admitted until the beginning of the
next quarter, unless by written order
of a majority of the trustees, filed with
the Principal of the school,


CHICAGO.


every scholar in the High School,
or i'm the Grammar divisions of the Dis
trict Schools, who shall he absent six
half days in four consecutive weeks, and
every scholar in the Primary divisions
who shall be absent eight half days in
four consecutive weeks, without an ex-
cuse from the parent or guardian, given
either in person or by written note, sat
isfying the teacher that the absences
were caused by his own sickness, or by
sickness in the family, or to avoid Sc
rious and imprudent exposure of health,
shall forfeit his seat in the school and
the teacher shall forthwith notify the
Superintendent that the pupil is GUS
pended. No pupil thus suspended shall
be restored to school till the parent or
guardian has given satisfactory assur-
ance that the pupil will be punctual in
the future, and obtained permission
from the Superintendent for him to re-
turn"


SPRINGFIELD, ILL.


"By an absence of four half days in
four successive weeks, scholar shall
forfeit his or her seat, unless bringing n
written excuse from parent or guardian,
stating such absence to have been caus-
ed by sickness. A seat once forfeited
can only be resumed bya special permit
from the Superintendent. A pupil who
shall forfeit his seat second time can
only be restored by vote of the Board


WHEELING.


Any pupil returning to school after
an absence of one half day or more or
coming In after school has been opened,
shall by a written excuse from his or
her parent or guardian, satisfy the
PRINCIPAL. that the absence or tardi-
,o,, ,,-,s nv authority of the Darrnt or