The Functions of Courts in Enforcing School Attendance LawsTeachers College, Columbia University, 1927 - 187 páginas |
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The Functions of Courts in Enforcing School Attendance Laws John Frederick Bender Visualização integral - 1927 |
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absence appealed attend school attendance at school attendance department attendance officer board of education Case.-In cent charge CHIG child labor child to school Columbia University compel comply compulsory attendance law compulsory education law compulsory school constitution convicted coöperate county court court action court held Decided decision defendant discretion duty employers enactments enforce attendance law excuse factors failure functions guilty imposed imprisonment instruction judgment justice juvenile court legislation legislature ment MICHI UNIV Ohio parent parochial Pennsylvania Persons Falsifying Philadelphia private school probation prosecution public schools punishment pupils ranges of fines reasonable refused Report RSITY rule school age school attendance school authorities school board School Laws second offense send his child session shows SITY UNIV smallpox South Dakota specified statute summons supreme court suspended sentence Table tardiness teacher tendance tion truancy truant UNIV MICHIG UNIV UNIV UNIVE SITY unlawful vaccination violation York City
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Página 17 - When men enter into a state of society they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society in order to insure the protection of others ; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void.
Página 170 - My analysis of the judicial process comes then to this, and little more: logic, and history, and custom, and utility, and the accepted standards of right conduct, are the forces which singly or in combination shape the progress of the law. Which of these forces shall dominate in any case, must depend largely upon the comparative importance or value of the social interests that will be thereby promoted or impaired.
Página 70 - Unless otherwise provided herein, every child between the ages of seven and sixteen years shall attend public school, or other school taught in the English language which is open to the inspection of local and state attendance and school officers; and such child shall attend such school each year during the entire time the public schools are in session in the school district in which such child resides.
Página 16 - Court, from time to time, to make, ordain and establish, all manner of wholesome, and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without, (so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution) as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this Commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the subjects of the same...
Página 59 - No question is raised concerning the power of the State reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare.
Página 60 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Página 59 - Under the doctrine of Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US, 390, we think it entirely plain that the Act of 1922 unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.
Página 81 - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session.
Página 59 - The manifest purpose is to compel general attendance at public schools by normal children, between eight and sixteen, who have not completed the eighth grade. And without doubt enforcement of the statute would seriously impair, perhaps destroy, the profitable features of appellees' business, and greatly diminish the value of their property.
Página 59 - ... interference by appellants with the free choice of patrons, present and prospective. It declared the right to conduct schools was property and that parents and guardians, as a part of their liberty, might direct the education of children by selecting reputable teachers and places. Also, that these schools were not unfit or harmful to the public, and that enforcement of the challenged statute would unlawfully deprive them of patronage and thereby destroy their owners