Show SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ci O Irregular school attendance caused caused caused caus caus- ed the w of one- one quarter of the money spent for public e education In n the United States in 1923 according to statisticians statis statis- statisticians ls of the United States bureau of or education The people who paid the taxes robbed th themselves of this amount and at the same sam time deprived deprived deprived de de- de- de their own wn children of an average e of r two-months two schooling More than children were here cre enrolled in the public schools of the country and the schools were open an average of about eight months mouths Nearly teachers were employed and that number was vas sufficient to instruct every child enrolled every school day of tho the eight months the schools were in session slon say the bureau of education education education tion officials The total cost in all the states combined was about bout one billion bUllon dollars By allowing their children to miss school quarter one of the tho time parents caused the waste of quarter one of the money paid to torun torun torun run the schools |