 | African Americans - 1848 - 404 pages
...one-third of the entire population were communicants. Its laws more thorough than ours, compelled parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and twelve years. Of its ten thousand inhabitants, between three and four thousand were emancipated slaves,... | |
 | William Swinton - Geography - 1875 - 154 pages
...its numerous universities, and for its good system of primary education. Parents are compelled by law to send their children to school, between the ages...thirteen years ; and every young man is forced to do military duty for a certain time, during which he is required to pursue some study. These two laws... | |
 | 1885 - 168 pages
...marriage may be completed. Education Act (1872).— Made it imperative under certain penalties for parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen. In order that this provision might be carried out, a Scotch Education Board was formed in London, and... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1886 - 376 pages
...carry out the provisions of this law ; and they were further invested with authority to compel parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen. This new law has been very successful. A high percentage of attendance has been attained, and an able... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1908 - 1132 pages
...broad grounds for not accepting the Amendment was that the conditions under which parents were obliged to send their children to school between the ages of five and fourteen, were laid down for the last time under the Act of 1901, which gave the school boards power... | |
 | Sir Sidney Low, Lloyd Charles Sanders - Great Britain - 1907 - 568 pages
...guardians. Sandon further introduced a declaratory clause to the effect that it was the duty of parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and ten. The children were to continue attending school up to fourteen, unless they could produce certificates... | |
 | Reginald Lane Poole, William Hunt - Great Britain - 1907 - 566 pages
...guardians. Sandon further introduced a declaratory clause to the effect that it was the duty of parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and ten. The children were to continue attending school up to fourteen, unless they could produce certificates... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - Scotland - 1911 - 544 pages
...the agency of the parish authorities. They were to elect teachers and pay them, and to compel parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. They were to have powers to take over existing schools under... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - 1911 - 546 pages
...the agency of the parish authorities. They were to elect teachers and pay them, and to compel parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. They were to have powers to take over existing schools under... | |
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They were to elect teachers and pay them, and to compel parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. 