Trustees of Schools v. People ex rel. Van Allen

Citations

• 87 Ill. 303

Syllabus

<p>1. School law—high schools. The object of the law allowing the establishment of high schools in townships, is to afford increased facilities for acquiring a good education in free schools. Such schools must be open to all pupils like who are sufficiently advanced-to need their instruction. The duties of the</p> <p>2. Same—powers of trustees. The trustees of a township are invested with power to decide what branches of study shall be taught in the high school, what texb-boolcs shall be used, and to prescribe necessary rules and regulations for the management and government of the school, but not to decide what particular branches of study of those decided to be taught, shall be pursued by each pupil.</p> <p>3. Under the power to prescribe necessary rules and regulations for the management and government of the schools, they may require a classification of the pupils with respect to the branches of study they are respectively pursuing, and with respect to proficiency or degree of advancement in the same branches, and that, there shall be prompt attendance, diligence in study, and proper deportment.</p> <p>4. Same—how far parent may control studies. No parent can insist that his child shall be placed or kept in particular classes, when by so doing others will be retarded in their- studies, or that, his child shall be taught studies not. in the prescribed course of the school, or be allowed to use a text-book diiferent from that adopted, or that he shall be allowed to adopt methods of study that interfere with others in their studies.</p> <p>5. The laws of this State do not deny the parent all control over the education of his child. They only withdraw from him the right to select the branches to be studied by the child to the extent that the exercise of that right will not interfere with the system prescribed for the schools. No particular branch of study is compulsory upon those who attend school.</p> <p>6. Where the relator’s son passed a satisfactory examination