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Show NIGHT SCHOOL NOT SUFf ICIENT To Cover Compliance With Compulsory Education Law, According to Baling of State Superintendent In a communication sent to City Superintendent Su-perintendent of Schools D. H. Christen-sen Christen-sen by State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. C. Nelson yesterday, it is held that a child's attendance at night school is not a compliance with the compulsory education law. The communication ia as follows: D. H. Chrisfensen, Superintendent of Schoola. City. Dear Sir: Your communication communica-tion of October rs la received, in which you ask to be advised aa to whether sight school attendance satisfies the requirements of the law relatitg to the compulsory attendance of children between S and K years of age. The law relating to the compulsory attendance at-tendance of rbildren at acfaool ia cities of the first-and second claas provides that children chil-dren between the ares of t and 1$ years shall attend school at least thirty weeks in each school year, ten weeks of which shall be consecutive In the enactment of this law the Legislature had in contemplation the education of the child as provided by the cities. The law exempts the parent or guardian from the rer poaeibtllty of sending the child the required length of time to the public schools whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the Board of Education that the child is successfully pursuing the subject sub-ject prescribed by tUe law for the same length of time as children are required to be taught in the district schools, or whenever when-ever it is satisfactorily shown that there exista contain apeclfiod disabilities preventing prevent-ing the child's attendance. That attendance at sight school does not fulfill the requirements of the law ta obvious ob-vious from the fact that It ia practically Impossible, and grossly unjust if possible, for a boy. afer completing his day's labor, to be required to pursue the atudlea of the public school currlouluni until midnight or even later. The law does not contemplate that the boy- shall be so burdened. You are advised, therefore, that attendance attend-ance at night school does not satisfy the requirements ol the lew relating to the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of S and 16 years. Yours respectfully. respect-fully. A. C. NELSON. |