Our Schools in War Time—and AfterDean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
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Our Schools in War Time—and After
Dean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
Education -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Schools
SECTION 4. A pupil in the public schools or in any state school
or institution who is relieved from school work and is engaged
satisfactorily in agricultural service during the present school
year shall be given credit for the work of the present term without
examination, on the certificate of the person in charge of such
school or institution that his work therein up to the time of
engaging in such service is satisfactory. A pupil in such school or
institution who engages in such service during the present school
year shall not incur any loss of standing or credit on account of
such service. All pupils in public schools who are candidates for
college-entrance diplomas or other credentials to be issued to them
at the close of the present school year shall be granted such
diplomas or credentials on the certificate of the principal of the
school that their work up to the time of engaging in such service
is satisfactory. The Regents of the University shall make rules
for the purpose of giving credit to pupils in the public schools
who have been in attendance at school during the present school
year and who have left the schools for the purpose of rendering
agricultural or industrial service.
SECTION 5. The Commissioner of Education shall cause
appropriate certificates or badges to be prepared and issued to
pupils in the schools of the state who shall perform satisfactory
agricultural or industrial service under rules and regulations of
the Commissioner of Education.
It will be noted that the compulsory-attendance law was suspended only
between certain periods and at the discretion of the Commissioner of
Education, and for the sole purpose of permitting children to labor in
the cultivation, production, and care of food products upon farms and
gardens within the state.
This bill did not authorize the employment of girls in general domestic
service. No provision of the labor law was repealed, suspended,
or modified, and the provisions of the labor law relating to the
employment of children in canneries or in any factory or mercantile
establishment still remain in force. It is true that a bill suspending
temporarily in whole or in part, at the discretion of the Industrial
Commission, provisions of the labor law in relation to any employment
in the state passed the two legislative bodies, but this was wisely
vetoed by Governor Whitman.
It will be further noticed that the children thus employed within the
dates mentioned are to be under the supervision and direction of the
school authorities in the city or district in which such children
reside. The Commissioner of Education thereupon issued certain
regulations relating to children who might be employed within the
compulsory school ages. A brief summary follows:
Boys only, 15 years of age and above, residing in cities.
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