Callihan v. Reid
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Graham. Telfair superior court. April 17, 1919. The McRae-IIelena public school is in a school district organized in Telfair County under the MeMichael act. It participates in the public-school funds controlled by the State, and receives its proportion based on the number of school children between the ages of six and eighteen years. It is a graded school, having seven grades, and is in session for nine months of each year.
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Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Graham. Telfair superior court. April 17, 1919. The McRae-IIelena public school is in a school district organized in Telfair County under the MeMichael act. It participates in the public-school funds controlled by the State, and receives its proportion based on the number of school children between the ages of six and eighteen years. It is a graded school, having seven grades, and is in session for nine months of each year. It teaches the text-books and the courses selected and adopted by the State board of education for the.common schools of the State, but…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) We are of the opinion that the court properly denied the mandamus. Under the law the common schools of this State are not compelled to receive and teach a child, irrespectively of the advancement of such child in his studies, from the time he is six years of age and until he has attained the age of eighteen years. When the public funds are only sufficient to authorize the teaching of the courses and books provided and selected for common schools, the authorities can not be compelled to give instruction to a child, though he is within school age, where he…
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