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Show 9ECU III USp GF CHILD lAft Truant Officer A. C. Clayton L Q(ll inits Gratifying Report til 1 1 School Board. P ONLY FIVE CASES OF flB TRUANCY AMONG GlPn Parents Required to See jUPe Children Attend Public Private School. Mj0 There was a wonderful and ftf(jllPl quently a gratifying falling off iyvpV'T employment of child labor for the $mS year of TOOS-lflOf) over previous sq- years, according to Truant Officer M tj'll f C. Clavton s report for the school"1 n, ended.' . fflB r The report, which has .iust bonnjjyj, mil ted to rhc board of education, sl--a decisivo decrease in tho numb.' ,j s-'bool children, both boys and girlsf' ployed outside the school room for19, si'hool year ending last June, ai'j;"' consequent reduction in tho numb4. ( exemptions from attending school also shown. The exemptions drol. from 315 for the school year of yfe ST j 11)0$ to 2Go for the school vear of'"C.' lilf. These figures, the truant otViccrii131 Moves, almost, correctly represent, v,v(f number of boys nnd gifls of school ' Ma. found working Inst 3"oar when aucKj g0c net necessary for the support ot'fr.te rtirrnts or guardians, takcu frohtwj1 Lnr work and returned to school luilbtts years, boys and girls who wished toJ',' i.wav from school told the truantlV fiecr that they had to work to supjt rrc their parents "or guardians, and in -ni refflf instances heretofore they were nllrjs,Harfi to go without much investigation. IM thing.' are different now. an shown. rathi Mr. Clayton's report. For the lasmndei) or three years every such case- jfcfjlljc closely investigated, 'and if the rAj 12. eniations of the youngsters ff-gjf arc wished to keep out of going to sciAle were found to be untrue, as wasifcrtioii case in most instances, they wero ,cLljt t polled to return to their classes. Vtinar Clavton estimates that for tho Sfy.Stt': year of 190S-1900 at least fifty -T jjgcni1 and girls of school age found worf jg ' were returned to school. tr Shows St?jling Thing. jfchll? 1 The report shows another startossMI thing. There wero only five e.asol11:1 truancv among girls for "the school jdv of 1S)0S-1!K)9 as compared to 139'fc ancy eases among boys. Eighteon& DE truants wero found on the "strectSjpb pop the most of them, 11S. were report! nl" truants from the schools. Three fidfle reported as playing truants from OLrjnfit sources. Slistal The truant officer investigated cases of absonce. thirty-one anlonfOt iW and ninety-three amo'ujT girls. iTf a tui hundred and seventy-four children, ac boys nnd 289 girlswere found att"fj?T,Cc ing no school, of which approximaLs jj 2f?3 wero exempted from ntterioL school, while tho rest returned to tt-ci : classes, but there is no way of maKi-,, an accurate estimate on this PoSvitf Many of these certificates of exol .1 tions were granted on account of fitul -porary illness. 4Er-irf That the tntancy officer was a.gT-jL . man is shown by his report onafTj , number of visits made. Mr. JajB ' made 563 visits to homes, visitoaRu,. places of amusement, called afclow stores and factories, and made 754 wIlT-fications wIlT-fications of tho requirements ol'Ji, school law as to attendance. 29 of wlr 'Jj wore to emplo3"ers and 725 to para A . Onl3" a comparatively small numhpi j,SJ these notifications were made bv lei ??. the truant officer usually calling ? person. JllWoes One hundred and eleven uon-enra, itui children were placed in schooj.1 visits were made to the schools inj J. school year, and 221 in the sumn .Sj two cases of bad school children J referred to the juvenile court, andj ;rKC-adults ;rKC-adults were fined for contributing ieTC the delinquency of school children! Fwi helping to keep them out of schoej Requirements of Parents. e Parents or guardians or other sons having control of children ouu ; of cities of the first and second e'iKQe, aro required, under the law, to see f such children attend a public or-pritw ', school in the dfstrict in which thcyj 1 fide nt least twenty weeks in a school year, ten wocks of which 11 be consecutive. Tn cities of the t and second class, children or sclj ages are required to attend school. ; least thirty weeks of the school yjjjCj ten weeks of which must be conej , .r live, and any pnrent. guardian or 0) j-. person having control of any childj 1 P tween eight and sixteen years old .1 fails to comply with these rcqmrcnl r-is r-is guilt v of a misdemeanor and sub, ,7"? to a fine. After October, 20. J 1 hirt v weeks of school remain nV 7 citv," consequently school children, LV. yet enrolled must muster in at Q ., and attend reguarly until tho clos , the schools to comply with the afj4il(. The law provides, however, thatj njt emplions from attending school majj ify granted for any one of tho tollo five reasons: fSs t That such child is taught at hpm !, the branches prescribed by law for.?, W -same length of time as children an quired by law to be taught in tha t riot school. S W , That such child has already acqui the branches of learning as taugh the district schools. , . .-j Improper mental or phvpicnl coi tion. certified to by a competent f sician, or if no such school is iav - -the requisite length of time withmj T8 and one-half miles of the residenct . the child by the nearest road, sucS ,o tendance shall not be enforced. , That such child is attending Zns public district or private school. That the services of such child JJfc necessary for the support or a mql U- or an invalid father. 2 . K |