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2018 Georgia Code 20-2-691 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 20 EDUCATION

Section 2. Elementary and Secondary Education, 20-2-1 through 20-2-2180.

ARTICLE 16 STUDENTS

20-2-691. Minimum annual attendance required; child completing high school exempt.

The minimum session of annual school attendance required under this subpart shall be for the full session or sessions of the school which the child is eligible to attend. Such attendance shall not be required where the child has successfully completed all requirements for a high school diploma.

(Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 851, § 2/SB 413.)

Law reviews.

- For comment on Crim v. McWhorter, 242 Ga. 863, 252 S.E.2d 421 (1979), see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 341 (1979).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Summer School Fee.

- A public school system within the State of Georgia can establish a policy requiring the payment of a tuition fee as a precondition for attendance during a summer school session. Crim v. McWhorter, 242 Ga. 863, 252 S.E.2d 421 (1979).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Provisions neither authorize nor prohibit parents from sending children to school during teacher's absence.

- Former visiting Teacher's Law neither authorizes nor prohibits a school from directing the parents of children whose teacher is absent not to send the children to school during the teacher's absence. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 331.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Regulations forbidding pupils to leave school grounds during school hours, 32 A.L.R. 1342; 48 A.L.R. 659.

Conditions at school as excusing or justifying nonattendance, 9 A.L.R.4th 122.

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