SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
A HINT TO PARENTS. ' When inflicting 'a fine on a parent in the Magistrate's Court at Levin on Thursday last, the Magistrate (Mr. Kendriek) made some remarks that are of interest to parents. The Education Board's truant officer prosecuted a father for failing to have his girl registered at some school. Counsel for defendant stated that the child was delicate, and the.mother was teaching her at home. He produced a number of lesson books to prove this. The Magistrate said that every child between the ages of seven and fourteen years must bo enrolled at school, and if a child were unable to attend by reason of sickness then a certificate of exemption must be applied for to the, educational authorities. In many cases a medical certificate might prove that' while a child might not be strong, it was quite able to attend school. In this case no medical certificate had been produced, and no exemption certificate applied for, although the inspector had asked for this.
In several other cases of irregular attendance, the Magistrate warned parents that it was quite competent for the truant officer to issue a summons for_ every week or portion of a week in which a child was absent, and when this was done, and the case was a had one, he would have no hesitation in inflicting a line in each case of absence.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 6
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232SCHOOL ATTENDANCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 6
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