Pitts v. State

HINES, Presiding Justice.

Following the denial of her motion for new trial, Chanell Pitts appeals her convictions and misdemeanor sentences for violations in 2011 of OCGA § 20-2-690.1,1 which provides for mandatory education for children between the ages of six and sixteen (“mandatory *512education statute”). Her sole challenge is to the constitutionality of *513OCGA § 20-2-690.1.2 For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

On January 31, 2012, Pitts was charged by accusation with nine separate counts of violation of OCGA § 20-2-690.1 in regard to her son’s unexcused absences from school in August 2011.…