EDUCATIONAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 822, 18 January 1878, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL.

As the new Education Act is now in tome we would draw the attention of parents and guardians to the following clauses in said Act :

79. At every public school certificates shall he obtainable, to be'called “ good attendance certificates,” and such certificates shall be of two classes, ■( 1.) For any child of school age attend ing a public school in the district, who, fora period of twelve months, has been present every time the school was open, both in tiie morning and afternoon : (2.) For any such child who for a like period has not been absent from such school more than five times in all.

89. Subject to thgiprovisions of this Act, the parent or guardian of every child not less than seven nor more.than thirteen years of age shall, in case such child lives within the distance of two miles measured according to the nearest road from a public school within a school district, send such child to school for at least one half of the period in each year during which the school is usually open. ; !

90. The parent or guardian of any child may apply for and receive a certificate from the Committee in they school district in which such child resides, exempting such child from attendance. t ■ ■

91. In case any Committee ascertains that any child between the ages of ■seven and thirteen years, and resident within the distance of two miles from a public school

within its district, docs not attend school, the Clerk or any member of such Committee may give the parent or guardian of such child notice'in writing, in the form or to the effect in the Third Schedule, hereto, calling upon such parent or guardian to send such child to school.

92. If the parent of guardian of any child between the ages of seven and thirteen resident within two miles from a public school, not holding a ticket of exemption as aforesaid in respect of such child refuses or neglects to send such child to a public school after having been called upon in manner aforesaid to do so, the parent 'or guardian of such child may he summoned before any two Justices of the Peace, who may order such parent Or guardian to send such child to a public school.