January 30, 2003, Introduced by Reps. Daniels, Woodward, Hager, Cheeks and Smith and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending sections 1561 and 1596 (MCL 380.1561 and 380.1596),
section 1561 as amended by 1996 PA 339.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 1561. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this
2 section, every parent, guardian, or other person in this state
3 having control and charge of a child from the age of 6 to the
4 child's sixteenth eighteenth
birthday shall send that child to
5 a public school during the entire school year. The child's
6 attendance shall be continuous and consecutive for the school
7 year fixed by the school district in which the child is
8 enrolled. In a school district that maintains school during the
9 entire calendar year and in which the school year is divided into
10 quarters, a child is not required to attend the public school
1 more than 3 quarters in 1 calendar year, but a child shall not be
2 absent for 2 or more consecutive quarters.
3 (2) A child becoming 6 years of age before December 1 shall
4 be enrolled on the first school day of the school year in which
5 the child's sixth birthday occurs. A child becoming 6 years of
6 age on or after December 1 shall be enrolled on the first school
7 day of the school year following the school year in which the
8 child's sixth birthday occurs.
9 (3) A child is not required to attend a public school in any
10 of the following cases:
11 (a) The child is attending regularly and is being taught in a
12 state approved nonpublic school, which teaches subjects
13 comparable to those taught in the public schools to children of
14 corresponding age and grade, as determined by the course of study
15 for the public schools of the district within which the nonpublic
16 school is located.
17 (b) The child is less than 9 years of age and does not reside
18 within 2-1/2 miles by the nearest traveled road of a public
19 school. If transportation is furnished for pupils in the school
20 district of the child's residence, this subdivision does not
21 apply.
22 (c) The child is age 12 or 13 and is in attendance at
23 confirmation classes conducted for a period of 5 months or less.
24 (d) The child is regularly enrolled in a public school while
25 in attendance at religious instruction classes for not more than
26 2 class hours per week, off public school property during public
27 school hours, upon written request of the parent, guardian, or
1 person in loco parentis under rules promulgated by the state
2 board.
3 (e) The child has graduated from high school or has fulfilled
4 all requirements for high school graduation.
5 (f) The child is being educated at the child's home by his or
6 her parent or legal guardian in an organized educational program
7 in the subject areas of reading, spelling, mathematics, science,
8 history, civics, literature, writing, and English grammar.
9 (4) For a child being educated at the child's home by his or
10 her parent or legal guardian, exemption from the requirement to
11 attend public school may exist under either subsection (3)(a) or
12 (3)(f), or both.
13 Sec. 1596. (1) The board of a school district other than a
14 primary school district may establish 1 or more ungraded schools
15 for the instruction of certain pupils classified in subsection
16 (2). The board may require the pupils to attend an ungraded
17 school or a department of the school as the board directs.
18 (2) The following
cases of persons, aged A child age 7 to
19 the sixteenth his or her eighteenth birthday residing who
20 resides in the school
district shall be deemed and who meets 1
21 or more of the following is considered a juvenile disorderly
22 persons person and in the judgment of the proper
school
23 authorities may be assigned to the ungraded school or
24 department:
25 (a) Class 1,
habitual truants A child who is habitually
26 truant from the school in
which they are he or she is enrolled
27 as pupils a
pupil.
1 (b) Class 2,
children A child who, while attending school,
2 are is incorrigibly turbulent, disobedient, and
insubordinate,
3 or who are is
immoral in conduct.
4 (c) Class 3,
children A child who are is not attending
5 school and who habitually
frequent frequents streets and other
6 public places, having no lawful business, employment, or
7 occupation.