2021 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Article 16 - Students
Part 1 - School Attendance
Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance
§ 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.
