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20-2-690.1 Mandatory education for children
between ages 6 and 16
(a) Every parent, guardian, or other person residing
within this state having control or charge or any child
between their sixth and sixteenth birthdays shall enroll
and send such child or children to a public school,
a private school, or a home study program that meets
the requirements for a public school, a private school,
or a home study program; and such child shall be responsible
for enrolling in and attending a public school, a private
school, or a home study program that meets the requirements
for a public school, a private school, or a home study
program under such penalty for noncompliance with this
subsection as is provided inC Chapter 11 of Title 15,
unless the child's failure to enroll and attend is caused
by the child's parent, guardian, or other person, in
which case the parent, guardian, or other person alone
shall be responsible; provided, however, that tests
and physical exams for military service and the National
Guard and such other approved absences shall be excused
absences.
(b) Any parent, guardian, or other person residing in
this state who has control or charge of a child or children
and who shall violate this Code section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be subject to a fine not to exceed $100.00 or imprisonment
not to exceed 30 days, or both, at the descretion of
the court having jurisdiction. Each day's absence from
school in violation of this part shall constitute a
separate offense.
(c) Local school superintendents in the case of private
schools or home study programs and visiting teachers
and attendance officers in the case of public schools
shall have authority and it shall be their duty to file
proceedings in court to enforce this subpart.
*Official Code of Georgia Annotated
1984 Cumalitive Supplement
Students shall be in attendance at public schools
in accordance with requirements of the compulsory school
attendance law and for the number of full-length days
prescribed by law.
Excused absences are defined by the Cartersville School
Board in accordance with authority granted by the compulsory
school attendance law and the following guidelines.
Children may be temporarily
excused from school when:
-personally ill and when attendance in school would
endanger their health or the health of others,
-in their immediate family there is a serious illness
or death which would necessitate absence from school.
-on special and recognized holidays observed by their
faith
-mandated by order of governmental agencies (Examples:
preinduction physical examination for services in the
armed forces or a court order).
Children may be excused from school attendance when
prevented from such attendance due to conditions rendering
school attendance impossible or hazardous to their health
or safety.
Children who are serving as pages of the Georgia General
Assembly shall be credited as present by the school
in which they are enrolled for days missed for school
for this purpose.
A student may be granted an excused absence not to exceed
one day in order to register to vote.
Absences shall not penalize student grades if the following
conditions are met:
-absences are justified and validated for excusable
reasons;
-makeup work for excused absences was completed satisfactory;
-a grade average of 70 or above has been earned in the
course work
Individual students who have emergencies necessitating
their absence from school for a portion of the school
day must have been present for one-half of the instructional
day in order to be included in the average daily attendance
count. When there is cause necessitating an individual
student to be excused from school for a portion of the
school day, the student shall be released from school
only to his or her parent(s). Principals shall require
verification of right of custody of anyone requesting
early dismissal of a student.
Any student attending school in the Cartersville School
System who exceeds seven days absence per semester or
five days absence per quarter in a course without documentation
of an excused absence shall not receive credit for the
course. Students denied credit for course due to excess
absences may appeal for credit to the Attendance Committee
of the school.
LEGAL REF.: O.C.G.A, 20-2-240; 20-2-310(b); 20-2-690.1;
20-2-691; 20-2-692; 20-2-693; 20-2-694 Rescinds
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