Guernsey v. Pitkin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case. Plea not guilty and trial by the court, at the March Terra, 1859, Barrett, J., presiding. The following facts appeared on trial: The defendant, during the winter of 1857-8, was the prudential committee of a school district, in which the plaintiff, who was then eighteen years of age, resided with his father.
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Case. Plea not guilty and trial by the court, at the March Terra, 1859, Barrett, J., presiding. The following facts appeared on trial: The defendant, during the winter of 1857-8, was the prudential committee of a school district, in which the plaintiff, who was then eighteen years of age, resided with his father. The defendant, as such prudential committee, employed a teacher to teach the school in that district, and the plaintiff began to attend the school as a scholar at its commencement, with the purpose of attending through the term, and that he commenced the studios of arithmetic,…
1Opinion of the Court
Redfibld, Ch. J.
We are called to determine, Tfetljis case, the propriety of excluding a pupil from the common schomf,' for refusing to write compositions, as it is called. This will depend upon the reasonableness of the requirement. Persons will no doubt differ very considerably in regard to the benefit or wisdom of such a course of instruction in the common schools. There is, no doubt, of late, in some quarters, manifested a disposition to push the extent of instruction in the common schools altogether beyond anything which had been dreamed of when the system was inaugurated. And it is…
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