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GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
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Title 20. EDUCATION |
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Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION |
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Article 16. STUDENTS |
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Part 1. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE |
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Subpart 2. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE |
| § 20-2-690. Educational entities; requirements for private schools and home study programs |
| § 20-2-690.1. Mandatory education for children between ages six and 16 |
| § 20-2-690.2. (For effective date, see note.) Establishment of student attendance protocol committee; membership and protocol; summary of penalties for failure to comply; reporting |
| § 20-2-691. Minimum annual attendance required; child completing high school exempt |
| § 20-2-692. General Assembly pages granted excused absences |
| § 20-2-692.1. Excused absences for days missed to visit with parent or legal guardian in the military prior to deployment or while on leave |
| § 20-2-692.2. Foster care student attending court proceedings related to that student's foster care to be credited as present at school |
| § 20-2-693. Exemptions |
| § 20-2-694. Administration and enforcement of subpart |
| § 20-2-695. Employing attendance officers in addition to visiting teachers; authority and duties |
| § 20-2-696. Duties of visiting teachers and attendance officers |
| § 20-2-698. Peace officers may take temporary custody of truant children away from home |
| § 20-2-699. (For effective date, see note.) Disposition of children taken into custody |
| § 20-2-700. Reports by peace officers to school authorities and parent or guardian |
| § 20-2-701. Responsibility for reporting truants to juvenile or other courts |
| § 20-2-702. Governor may proclaim subpart suspended |
| § 20-2-703. Subpart is inapplicable where operation of public schools is discontinued |
REFS & ANNOS
TITLE 20 Chapter 2 Article 16 Part 1 Subpart 2 NOTE
CROSS REFERENCES. --Home Education Week, § 1-4-14.
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS. --Student attendance, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Education, Regional Education Services, Sec. 160-5-1-.10.
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
DUTY OF LOCAL BOARDS TO ADMINISTER PROVISIONS IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. --Law does not shift the responsibility for locating an absent or runaway child from the parent to local school officials, but simply provides that it shall be the duty of the county or independent school system board of education to administer the compulsory attendance law and to secure the law's enforcement in cooperation with other state and county agencies. 1978 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 78-48.
PROVISIONS NOT VIOLATED BY ASSIGNING CHILDREN TO JOB CENTERS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS. --Assigning of 14- and 15-year-old children who are residents of Georgia to Job Corps Centers in other jurisdictions would not offend the compulsory school attendance laws of the State of Georgia. 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-173.
PARENTS REFUSING TO HAVE CHILDREN VACCINATED. --Parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated for smallpox, by reason of which the child is prevented from attending school, would seem to place themselves in jeopardy as regards the public school attendance law, and the fact that the parents refuse to allow the child to be vaccinated because of religious beliefs would not serve as an excuse for a violation of the attendance law. 1950-51 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 47.
CHILDREN ABSENT ILLEGALLY FROM SCHOOL. --Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 11 provides that should any child absent himself or herself from school, the visiting teacher and attendance officer shall give written notice of the child's absence from school to the parent or guardian, and if the delinquency of the child is not corrected, the teacher and attendance officer should report the situation to the juvenile, superior, city, or other court having jurisdiction of the delinquent child. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 77.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. --Regulation forbidding pupils to leave school grounds during school hours, 32 ALR 1342; 48 ALR 659.
Schools: extent of legislative power with respect to attendance and curriculum, 53 ALR 832.
Religious beliefs of parents as defense to prosecution for failure to comply with compulsory education law, 3 ALR2d 1401.
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS. --Student attendance, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Education, Regional Education Services, Sec. 160-5-1-.10.
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
DUTY OF LOCAL BOARDS TO ADMINISTER PROVISIONS IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. --Law does not shift the responsibility for locating an absent or runaway child from the parent to local school officials, but simply provides that it shall be the duty of the county or independent school system board of education to administer the compulsory attendance law and to secure the law's enforcement in cooperation with other state and county agencies. 1978 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 78-48.
PROVISIONS NOT VIOLATED BY ASSIGNING CHILDREN TO JOB CENTERS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS. --Assigning of 14- and 15-year-old children who are residents of Georgia to Job Corps Centers in other jurisdictions would not offend the compulsory school attendance laws of the State of Georgia. 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-173.
PARENTS REFUSING TO HAVE CHILDREN VACCINATED. --Parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated for smallpox, by reason of which the child is prevented from attending school, would seem to place themselves in jeopardy as regards the public school attendance law, and the fact that the parents refuse to allow the child to be vaccinated because of religious beliefs would not serve as an excuse for a violation of the attendance law. 1950-51 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 47.
CHILDREN ABSENT ILLEGALLY FROM SCHOOL. --Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 11 provides that should any child absent himself or herself from school, the visiting teacher and attendance officer shall give written notice of the child's absence from school to the parent or guardian, and if the delinquency of the child is not corrected, the teacher and attendance officer should report the situation to the juvenile, superior, city, or other court having jurisdiction of the delinquent child. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 77.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. --Regulation forbidding pupils to leave school grounds during school hours, 32 ALR 1342; 48 ALR 659.
Schools: extent of legislative power with respect to attendance and curriculum, 53 ALR 832.
Religious beliefs of parents as defense to prosecution for failure to comply with compulsory education law, 3 ALR2d 1401.