Excerpt from Compulsory School Attendance: State of Texas Sec. 713. Attendance Requirements and Provisions - Every child in this State Who is eight years and not more than fourteen years Old shall be required to attend the public schools in the district of its resi dence, or in some other district to Which it may be transferred, as pro vided. By law, for a period of not less than sixty days for the scholastic year, beginning September 1, 1916, and for a. Period of not less than eighty days for the scholastic years (year) beginning September 1, 1917, and for the scholastic year 1918-19, and each Scholastic year thereafter a minimum attendance of 100 days shall be required. In the administration of the compulsory school attendance 'law, the first day of September iwill be employed in determining the child's scholastic age. If the child was eight years Old and not more than fourteen years of age on the first day of September, it Will come Within the requirements of the law and be required to attend school sixty consecutive days during the school year 1916-17. Therefore, the age of the child on the first day of September is the school age of the child for the entire year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.