Field v. Samuelson

Morling, C. J.,

(dissenting). — It is to be confessed at the outset that the presently existing school laws are a hodge podge rather than a systematic evolution and development. Amendments and additions have been frequently made without reference to their effect upon co-ordinate or related statutes. From the beginning, however, there has been established and recognized a definite policy of general and reasonably uniform system of public education throughout the State. The right of the child to an education, and the duty of the State to furnish it, are not committed to localities or left to…