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parental school. If the parent is at fault, he becomes liable to prosecution and fine.
Those best acquainted with our schools have frequently expressed an opinion that there is too much truancy among the school children. It is not an uncommon thing to see boys loitering on the streets and around the railroad stations during school hours. Their place during such hours is in the school rooms, and any one employing them during school hours is liable to prosecution and fine.
With the present arrangements of truant officers it is oc- casionally difficult to get such truants into school on the day of their truancy. The present truant officers frequently have imperative duties which they cannot set aside to look up truants. In this expression I have no fault to find with the present or past officers ; the conditions are simply such that they frequently cannot attend to their duties as truant officers as promptly as they desire and as the case demands. If there were a day patrolman who could be appointed a truant officer, and he could be called upon at any time it would probably be as satisfactory an arrangement as could be made. Sections 28 and 34 in the appendix marks a direct bearing on the duties and power of the truant officers.
MANUAL TRAINING.
Recently there has been a strong and growing sentiment and some state legislation in favor of manual training in public schools. Agitation of the subject and more definite information about plans and methods have convinced many of the doubting. The warm approval of practical business men and the active sympathy of mothers who favor in- struction in sewing for the girls have indicated that the time is opportune for the making of a beginning in sloyd work and sewing.
At the regular school committee meeting bearing date Nov. 18, a sub-committee on manual training was appointed
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consisting of Mr. Thayer, Mr. Daniels and Mrs. Carlisle, and it was voted that sloyd work be introduced for boys into grades VII, VIII, and IX, and sewing for girls into grades V, VI, VII, and VIII. The instruction in sewing began Jan. 2, 1899, in charge of Miss Mary L. Wilson of Salem, who has had a successful experience and special in- struction in the department in a teachers' sewing school in Brookline. For several reasons, chief of which was to secure the best benches at a minimum cost, instruction in the sloyd work has just begun. C. Edward Mckinney, Jr., has been elected instructor of this branch. The manual training room is in the basement of the Lincoln school.
It is believed that the time and money spent in this work will not fail to give satisfactory returns and you are cordial- ly invited to interest yourself in this department and see what progress may be made in it.
Last March the high school alumni prizes of $10 and $5 for excellence in historical essay work were awarded to Miss Maude Lawton and Miss Marion E. Kernan. A prize of $5 for excellence in composition has been offered by Mr. A. H. Thayer. The subject is, "The Old Middle- sex Canal."
At this time I want to express my thanks to every men- ber of the school committee for very cordial consideration during the past year.
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES E. HUSSEY, Superintendent of Schools.
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Wakefield High School-Graduating Exercises. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898, 8 P. M.
PROGRAMME.
OVERTURE,
ORCHESTRA. ·
CHORUS --- " Revel of the Leaves," Veazie
SALUTATORY AND ESSAY-" Beauty in the World of Matter." IDABELLE FLORENCE BAXTER.
CHORUS-" Glorious is Thy Name," . .
Mozart
DECLAMATION-" Touissant L'Ouverture's Place among
Men."
JOHN FRANCIS WHITE. · Phillips
ORATION-" The Future Policy of the United States."
STANLEY ALEX DEARBORN.
SEMI-CHORUS-a. "Voices of the Woods," Rubinstein Linders
b. " Water Lilies,"
HONOR ESSAY-" Our Flag," ALICE MAUDE LAWTON.
ORATION-" The Municipal Ownership of Natural Monopolies." JOHN JOSEPH BUTLER.
CHORUS-" The Lord is Great," Mendelssohn
RECITATION-" The Birds of Killingworth . Longfellow
AGNES ANDERSON.
CHORUS -- " Wiegenlied," .
J. Frank
·
VALEDICTORY AND ESSAY-" A Place in the World." CATHERINE MAY MAGEE.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
CHARLES H. HOWE.
CLASS ODE, Written by MARION E. KERNAN
BENEDICTION.
REV. S. G. DUNHAM.
MOTTO .- "Forward."
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GRADUATES.
ENGLISH COURSE.
Herman K. C. de Anguera, William John Dinan,
Idabelle Florence Baxter,
Clara Mabelle Cheney, Thomas Francis Collins,
Daniel Edward Harrington, Maybell Adelaide Kernan, Catherine May Magee,
Daniel Henry Regan. 1
CLASSSICAL COURSE.
Agnes Anderson, Jacob Burley,
John Joseph Butler,
Merrill Edwin Champion,
Stanley Alex Dearborn,
Marion Elaine Kernan, Alice Maude Lawton,
James George Reardon, Frank Walter Wheeler, John Francis White,
Charles Alex. Woodward.
CLASS ODE.
WRITTEN BY MARION E. KERNAN.
Kind loving teachers, schoolmates dear, The time for parting now is here. We've spent together four short years, We've shared each others' joys and fears.
We've reached the parting of the ways. Look "Forward" now to future days, And let us bravely face the world, This motto round our hearts enfurled.
May this our earthly record be, That when from school day tasks set free, With courage firm and faces bright, We forward march to guard the right. While sadness fills each youthful breast, To each and all, at Fate's behest, To those who've been so kind and true, To each and all, we say adieu.
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HIGH SCHOOL STATISTICS, FEB. 1, Whole number of different pupils during year,
173
177
192
221
223
246
Largest number at one time,
135
137
149
171
174
204
Number not enrolled in any other school in town dur- ing year,
127
131
133
148
169
176
Number graduated,
24
10
20
26
16
30
Average age of Senior Class at graduation, years,
19
1811
19
Number admitted during
year,
56
54
66
82
59
87
Number from advanced
grammar school,
46
50
59
73
53
71
Number admitted from other schools,
10
4
L-
9
6
16
Number from Lynnfield,
8
5
12
13
11
16
Membership, February,
127
124
142
165
160
196
Pupils over 15 years old,
102
121
129
146
138
170
Number in Classical Course,
65
61
63
90
105
114
Number in English Course,
62
63
78
75
55
82
Senior Class, Feb. 1,
9
21
26
16
20
30
Senior Class, when entered,
17
54
48
53
51
62
Junior Class, Feb. 1,
30
29
20
22
31
45
Junior Class, when entered,
54
48
53
51
62
78
Second Year Class, Feb. 1,
36
27
35
46
57
44
Second Year Class, when entered,
48
53
51
62
78
57
First Year Class, Feb. 1,
50
46
60
76
52
77
First Year Class, when en- tered,
53
51
62
78
57
84
Average membership of year, 120.64 124.66
139
148.3
160 175.1
Average attendance of year, 114.58 119.94 126.7 142.7
154.7 168.5
Per cent. of attendance,
94.97
96.21
96.7
96.2
96.7
96.2
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
12
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GRADUATES FROM GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Barstow, Roy Earle, Edward T. Edmond, Robert Foster, Harry E. Gooch, Joseph Kenney, George McLain, Guy
Merrill, Morrison O'Connell, Jerry Potter, George E. Swanson, Bruce G. Bartley, Bessie S. Brown, Annie Butler, Mary Childs, Fannie Conners, Julia
Crean, Nellie Deadman, Alice M.
Donovan, Mary Fletcher Ella M. Golladay, Ruth Goodhue, Harriet
Gowen, Ruth Hamilton, Lucy Hamilton, Ruth Harnden, Ida A. Hawes, Stella B. Healey, Isabelle Jackson, Ethel A. Lee, Ruth Low, Mary Lucas, Izannah Myers, Ethel C. Parks, Edna E.
Pendergrace, Nina Preston, Alice G. Pulsifer, Irma E. Ridlon, Ethel P.
Ronan, Veronica Ryan, Alice Spaulding, Gretchen Sullivan, Ella Tay, Emilita F.
TABLE OF GENERAL STATISTICS.
GRADE.
TEACHERS.
Enrollment.
Average
Average
Attendance.
Average per
cent. of At-
Pupils over 15
Pupils between
8 and 14.
Total Half
Days' Absence.
No. Cases of
Tardiness.
No. Cases of
Truancy.
High,
Charles H. Howe,
176
175.1
169.5
96.2
167
2
Lincoln IX,
VIII, LY,
VIII,
VII,
" Susan M. Hosmer,.
44
41.6
38.3
92.1
0
44
1,302
130
-
VII,
Misses B. G. Pierce and M. G. Atherton,
30
40.
37.
92.5
0
30
1,293
235
4
VI,
Misses C. S. Mason and B. G. Pierce, ..
55
38.7
36.7
94.8
55
808
100
1
V,
Misses G. M. Dennison and E.G. Britton,
41
35.2
32.
90.9
0
41
1,301
150
+
V,
Miss Fannie G. Carter,
49
46.6
43.7
93.8
0
49
1,199
157
0
IV. ,
L. J. Mansfield,
-19
47.
43.7
93.1
0
49
1,304
245
5
111,
.
L. I. Wood,.
57
54.7
50.9
93.
0
30
1,397
163
2
II,
E. 1. Marshall,
79
47.7
43.8
92.
0
-1
1,559
312
0
1,
Jennie L. Carter,
61
35.4
31.5
89.
0
0
1,560
495
()
3
34.2
32.8
95.9
2
1
297
24
0
II. M. Warren IX,
C. E. Emerson, ..
45
39.1
37.4
95.7
3
33
735
96
0)
VITI,
VII,
" C. H. Munroe and M. Kalaher,. 66
44
36.4
33.8
92.6
0
14
1,046
117
III, IV
,
Miss Alice J. Kernan,
65
44.
40.
91.
0
20
1,521
262
0)
33
30.9
29.2
94.6
5
19
661
197
1
41
40.4
38.5
95.3
0
32
753
271
0
-
IV, V,
66
M. J. Hawkins,
56
40.6
37.8
93.2
0
53
1,091
222
12
83
48.7
43.7
89.8
12
1,965
268
7
.
42
36.3
34.
93.7
2
40
905
131
07
Hamilton VI,
Misses M. J. Hills and E. Gardner, .
42
37.5
35.5
94.7
0
42
782
186
6
43
39.2
37.1
94.3
1
36
884
207
4
68
43.3
40.2
92.8
8
1,256
198
2
Franklin III, IV,
M. I. Whitney,
42
42.4
39.8
93.9
0
21
1,030
141
69
32.5
20.9
92.2
0
28
1,026
254
1
78
45.6
40.8
89.5
0
1
1,910
149
0
66
I,
66 E. C. Bateman,.
46
39.2
32.7
83.
0
17
1,283
136
0
47
28.8
26.7
92.7
0
21
1,158
213
West I, II, III,
Miss A. L. Berry, ..
63
50.8
45.7
90.
0)
21
1,995
125
0
North III, IV, V, .. I, II,
" E. M. Hayes, Ass't,.
15
36.4
34.2
93.6
0)
45
1,017
200
0
60
41.6
37.4
89.7
0
8
1,523
189
High LY,
M. P. Wall,
26
24.3
23.5
96.7
16
10
84
71
1
1,999 1,661.8
1,545.3
92.7
222
1,084
43,996
6,995
80
.
42
41.2
38.7
93.
0
42
1,030
190
3
43
42.1
39.6
94.1
0
43
1,006
74
1
Miss Eleanor F. Emerson,
50
42.1
39.4
93.6
12
38
1,113
230
Miss E. F. Ingram,
46
44.9
42.7
95.1
13
33
886
142
0)
Mrs. M. E. Wentworth,
1,315
260
1
235
.
41.6
38.8
03.3
0
47
1,144
99
V, VI
M. Kalaher and N. P. Nason,
I, II,
Greenw'l VI, VII, VIII,
" S. E. Wilkins,
L. M. McCormick,
II, III,
1, 11,
S. M. Aldrich,
V,
III, IV,
Miss M. E. Kelly,
I, II,
" E. E. Howlett, .
-
K. L. Kelley, ..
66 I. F. Boone,
54
36.3
32.
87.
0
32
1,904
233
0)
Woodville IV, V, VI,
I, II, III,
Misses R. M. O'Connell'and S. E. Gardner, ...
Montrose IV, V, VI,
H. G. Elliot,.
I, II, III,
L. E. Blanch,
47
39.4
37.3
94.
1
30
953
123
4
Misses M. W. Cross and M. E. Kirk,
35
1
2
I,
66
M. A. Warren,
A. E. Balch,
/
Il,
F. E. Elliot, Ass't,
Membership.
tendance.
years.
Misses Lonise Townsend and E. Fuller,.
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CORPS OF TEACHERS,
With Salary, Year of Election, Grade, and Where Educated.
NAME.
Salary.
Date of first elect'n.
Grade.
Where educated.
High School, Common St.
Charles H. Howe,
$1,950
1895
Principal,
Helen W. Poor,
800
1896
First assistant,
Jeannette S. Wendell,
700
1898
Assistant, 66
Emilie E. Emerson,
600
1898
Jessie D. Pierson,
600
1898
Clara A. Barnes,
650
1897
66
Mabel P. Wall,
600
1897
66
Lincoln School, Crescent Street.
M. E. Wentworth,
900
1871
Principal,
Ethel G. Britton,
450
1898
Elizabeth F. Ingram,
600
1881
Eighth and ninth,
Elizabeth B. Fuller,
475
1898
Eighth,
Eleanor F. Emerson,
500
1887
Seventh,
Susan M. Hosmer,
500
1895
Seventh,
Bessie G. Pierce,
450
1896
Fifth,
Mary G. Atherton,
450
1898
Fannie E. Carter,
500
1886
Fourth,
L. Josephine Mansfield,
450
1875
Third,
L. Isadore Wood,
400
1896
Second,
Edith R. Marshall,
450
1894
First,
Jennie L. Carter,
360
1897
First,
H. M. Warren School, Converse Street.
M. Annie Warren,
700
1871
Principal,
Clara E. Emerson,
550
1879
Seventh,
Mary W. Kirk,
500
1898
Mary Kalaher,
450
1888
Eighth,
Nora P. Nason,
380
1898
Alice J. Kernan,
450
1890
First, second, third,
Greenwood School, Main Street.
600
1883
Principal,
Lila P. McCormick,
450
1891
Fiftlı and sixth,
Mary I. Hawkins,
450
1896
Third and fourth,
Annie G. Balch,
400
1896
First and second,
Hamilton School, Albion Street.
Sarah M. Aldrich,
525
1894
Principal,
Elizabeth Gardner,
400
1898
Fifth,
Mary E. Kelley,
450
1895
Third and fourth,
Eva E. Howlett,
475
1881
First and second,
Franklin School, Franklin Street.
M. L. Whitney,
450
1894
Third and fourthı,
Katharine L. Kelley,
380
1894
Second,
Irene F. Boone,
400
1896
First,
Woodville School, Farılı Street.
Emnia C. Bateman,
400
1893
First to sixth,
Flora E. Elliott,
300
1897
Assistant,
West Ward School, Pros-
pect Street.
Sallie Gardner,
400
1898
North Ward School, Cor- dis Street.
Agnes L. Berry,
425
1896
Edith M. Hayes,
300
1898
First to fourth, Assistant,
Dartmouth College. Radcliffe College.
Boston University. Vassar College. Vassar College. Wellesley College.
Berwick Academy. Boston University.
Smith College. Bridgewater Normal. Salem Normal. Framingham Normal. Wellesley College. Boston University. Millbury High School.
Wakefield High Sch'l. Quincy Training Sch'l. Wakefield High Sch'l. Millbury High School.
Wakefield High Sch'l. Wakefield High Sch'l. Salem Normal. Salem Normal. Gorhanı Normal. Wakefield High Sch'l.
Salem Normal. Bridgewater Normal. Southboro High Sch'l. Colby Academy.
Nichols Academy. Calais High. Wakefield High Sch'l. Salem Normal.
Gorham Normal. Salem Normal. Woburn High.
Wakefield High Sch'l. Wakefield High Scli'l.
Quincy Training. Farmington High Sch.
Sarah E. Wilkins,
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CORPS OF TEACHERS - Continued.
NAME.
Salary.
Date of first elect'n.
Grade.
Where educated.
East Ward School, Salem Street.
H. Gertrude Elliott,
380
Luella E. Blanch,
400
1897 1896
Fourth to sixth, First to third,
Melrose High School. New Brunsw'k Normal.
Special Instructors.
George F. Wilson,
750
1876
Annie B. Parker,
500
1893
Lieut. Charles E. Walton,
100
1897
Supervisor of music, drawing, Military instructor,
Boston Conserv. Music. Prang Normal Course. Co.A, 6th Reg't M.V.M.
Janitors.
Residence.
Sal- ary.
High School,
Lincoln,
Geo. O. Russell, Chas. E. Newman,
14 Church Street,
$350
Hamilton, {
Edward Eaton,
30 Park Street,
500
Franklin,
Thomas Thrush,
32 Franklin Street,
125
Greenwood,
T. L. Ringer,
Greenwood Avenue,
200
Woodville,
L. P. Hooper,
Nahant Street,
80
Montrose,
Maurice Hurley,
Lowell Street,
80
North Ward,
B. F. Shedd,
25 Cordis Street,
40
West Ward,
A. W. Ventress,
1 Salem Street,
40
Park Street,
600
Warren,
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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE LAWS, 1898.
CHAPTER 496.
An Act Relative to School Attendance and Truancy.
SECTION 1. Every town and city shall maintain for at least thirty-two weeks in the year a sufficient number of schools for the instruction of all the children who may legally attend a public school therein. Such schools shall be taught by teachers of com- petent ability and good morals, and shall give instruction in orthography, reading, writing, the English language and grammar, geography. arithmetic, drawing, the history of the United States, physiology and hygiene, including special instruction as to the effect of alcoholic drinks and of stimulants and narcotics on the human system, and good behavior. Bookkeeping, algebra, geom- etry, one or more foreign languages, the elements of the natural sciences, kindergarten training, manual training, agriculture, sew- ing, cooking, vocal music, physical training, civil government. ethics, and such other subjects as the school committee deem expedient, may be taught in the public schools.
SECT. 2. Every city and every town of five hundred families or householders according to the latest public census taken by the authority either of the Commonwealth or of the United States shall, and any other town may, maintain a high school, adequately equipped, to be kept by a principal and such assistants as may be needed, of competent ability, and good morals, who shall give instruction in such subjects designated in section one as it may be deemed expedient to teach in the high school, and in such addi- tional subjects as may be required for the general purpose of training and culture, as well as for the special purpose of pre-
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paring pupils for admission to state normal schools, technical schools, and colleges. Such high school shall maintain one or more courses of study, at least four years in length, and shall be kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the town or city, forty weeks at least, exclusive of vacations, in each year. A town may, if it chooses, meet only a portion of the foregoing requirements in its own high school : provided, that it shall make adequate provi- sions for meeting the rest of said requirements in the high school of another town or any city.
SECT. 4. Every town and city of twenty thousand or more in- habitants shall maintain as part of both its elementary and its high school system the teaching of manual training.
SECT. 7. Every child shall have the right to attend the public schools in the town or city in which his parent or guardian has a legal residence, or in which the child himself actually resides, sub- ject to such reasonable regulations as to the numbers and qualifi- cations of pupils to be admitted to the respective schools, and as to other school matters, as the school committee shall from time to time prescribe. No child shall be excluded from a public school of any town or city on account of race, color or religion.
SECT. 9. The parent, guardian or custodian of any child who is refused admission to or excluded from the public schools shall on application therefor be furnished by the school committee with a statement in writing of the grounds and reasons for the exclu- sion ; and after a statement has been so furnished a child thus re- fused admission to or excluded from said schools may, by his guardian or next friend, bring an action of tort and recover dam- ages for any unlawful exclusion, against said town, or city, and may by interrogatories filed in the case examine any member of the school committee or any other officer of the defendant town or city, as if he were a party to the suit.
SECT. 10. Any child, with the consent first obtained of the school committee of the town or city in which such child resides, may attend, at the expense of said town or city, the public schools of another town or city, upon such terms as may be satisfactory to the school committees of the towns or cities in interest.
SECT. 11. No child who has not been duly vaccinated shall be admitted to a public school except upon presentation of a certifi-
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cate signed by a regular practising physician that such child is an unfit subject for vaccination. No child who is a member of a household in which a person is sick with small pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or measles, or of a household exposed to contagion from a household as aforesaid, shall attend any public school dur- ing such sickness or until the teacher of the school has been furnished with a certificate from the board of health of the town or city, or from the attending physician of such sick person, stat- ing in a case of small pox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, that a period of at least two weeks, and in a case of measles a period of at least three days has lapsed since the recovery, removal or death of such person, and that danger of the conveying of such disease by such child has passed.
SECT. 12. Every child between seven and fourteen years of age shall attend some public day-school in the town or city in which he resides during the entire time the public day schools are in session, subject to such exceptions as to children, places of at- tendance and schools as are provided for in section three, seven, ten, and eleven of this act; provided, that the superintendent of schools or, where there is no superintendent of schools, the school committee, or teachers acting under authority of said superintend- ent of schools or school committee, may excuse cases of necessary absence ; and provided, further, that the attendance of a child up- on a public day-school shall not be required if such child has at- tended for a like period of time a private day-school approved by the school committee of such town or city in accordance with sec- tion two of chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or if such child has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or has already acquired the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, if his physical or mental condi- tion is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or imprac- ticable. Every person having under his control a child as described in this section shall cause such child to attend school as required by this section.
SECT. 16. The school committees of all towns and cities shall annually ascertain and record the names, ages, and such other
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information as may be designated by the state board of education, of all persons between five and fifteen years of age, and of all minors over fourteen years of age who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, residing in their respective towns and cities on the first day of September, and such record shall be completed on or before the first day of October. The first census under the provisions of this section shall be taken in the year eighteen hundred and ninty-nine. Whoever has under his control a minor over five years of age and withholds information in his possession sought by a school com- mittee or its agents relating to the items required to be ascer- tained by this section, or falsifies in regard to the same, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
SECT. 18. School committees shall cause the school registers to be faithfully kept in all the public schools of their respective towns and cities, and shall annually, on or before the last day of April, make returns on the aforesaid forms of inquiry to the sec- retary of the state board of education ; and school committees of towns shall specify in said returns the purposes to which the money received by their respective towns from the income of the school fund has been appropriated ; in such return twenty days or forty half days of actual session shall be counted as one month.
SECT. 19. The several school teachers shall faithfully keep the registers of attendance daily, and make due return thereof to the school committee or to such person as such committee may designate. No teacher of a public school shall receive payment for services for the two weeks preceeding the close of any single term until the register, properly filled up and completed, is so re- turned. All registers shall be kept at the schools, and at all times during school hours shall be open to the inspection of the school committee, the superintendent of schools, the truant officers, and the secretary and agents of the state board of edu- cation.
SECT. 24. Every habitual truant, that is, every child between seven and fourteen years of age who wilfully and habitually absents himself from school contrary to the provisions of section twelve of this act, upon complaint by a truant officer, and convic- tion thereof, may be committed, if a boy, to a county truant
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school, for a period not exceeding two years, and if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls, unless such child is placed on probation as provided in section twenty-eight of this act.
SECT. 25. Every habitual absentee, that is, every child be- tween seven and sixteen years of age who may be found wan- dering about in the streets or public places of any town or city of the Commonwealth, having no lawful occupation, habit- ually not attending school, and growing up in idleness and igno- rance, upon complaint by a truant officer or any other person, and conviction thereof, may be committed, if a boy, at the discretion of the court, to a county truant school for a period not exceeding two years, or to a Lyman school for boys, and, if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls, unless such child is placed on probation as provided in section twenty-eight of this act.
SECT. 26. Every habitual school offender, that is, every child unler fourteen years of age who persistently violates the rea- sonable regulations of the school which he attends, or otherwise persistently misbehaves therein, so as to render himself a fit sub- ject for exclusion therefrom, upon complaint by a truant officer, and conviction thereof, may be committed, if a boy, at the discre- tion of the court, to a county truant school for a period not exceeding two years, or to a Lyman school for boys, and, if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls, unless such child is placed on probation as provided in section twenty-eight of this act.
SECT. 27. Any court or magistrate by whom a child is com- mitted to a county truant school may make such order as said court or magistrate deems expedient concerning the payment by the parents of such child to the county, of the cost of the support of any such child while in said school, and may from time to time revise and alter such order, or make a new order, as the circum- stances of the parent may justify.
SECT. 28. Any court or magistrate by whom a child has been convicted of an offence under this act may in his discretion place such a child on probation under the oversight of a truant officer of the town or city in which the child resides, or of a probation officer of said court, for such period and upon such conditions as said court or magistrate may deem best ; and within such period,
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