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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Maryland. Bureau of Statistics and Information
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Publisher: Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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permits to work out-of-school hours. Of course, it should not be overlooked that children whomnecessity drives into the business of bread-winning in theirplay hours are usually subject to adverse influences thatemanate from poverty, and that tend to retard school prog-ress. Among such adverse conditions are the home demandsupon the childrens time, insufficient nourishment, inade-quate medical care and defective school equipment. On theother hand, these influences tend to make a child more seri- ^The law enacted by 1916 Lesislature requires attendance of children in thecounties each year: 7 to 13 years, entire school session; 13 and 14 years, 100davs ; 15 and 16 years, 100 days, unless elementary course is completed. The present compulsory school-attendance law is optional in all but six ofthe States counties. These six counties are exempt from the law. In onlynine of the others has the law been made operative. The new law will go Intoeffect on June 1, 1916. STATISTICS AND INFORMATION
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Age 12 years. Been to school most three weeks ; signs his name with amark ; manages by going to the country and out of the State to slip throughthe meshes of both compulsory school attendance and child labor laws. 8 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ous-minded about his school work, offsetting to some extentthe depressing results of his home environments. ^Allow-ance is always made for the children who are working afterschool, is the statement of a Baltimore educator. Whetherthe figures would sustain the declaration cannot be said atthis time, though figures may be available later. Nevertheless, there are concrete evidences that, aided bythe vacation permits, some parents are robbing their childrenof all schooling. The accompanying photographs weretaken of three capable children who hold vacation permits instrict accordance with the law, though not one can read orwrite. Each had to make a mark for signature. How does it happen that, with a compulsory school at-tendance law and a child labor law

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