State ex rel. Mueller v. School District Board

Provision is made for the establishment of district schools and compulsory attendance is required of children of the age of seven years and upwards to fourteen or sixteen, according to certain circumstances not material here. In the practical handling of the problem which presents itself in carrying out our scheme of education in relation to children of kindergarten age, the matter is placed in the keeping of the board. It is the board which is first to determine whether or not there shall be a kindergarten. The statute contemplates the reasonableness of provision for a kindergarten…