Although children under 8 years old are not mandated to attend school, once a child is enrolled in a public kindergarten, the child is subject to the state’s compulsory attendance provisions, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
On June 16, the justices unanimously found that language in the Pennsylvania School Code’s compulsory school age and attendance provisions was clear, and therefore the regulation mandating children attend school continuously and consistently once enrolled applied to children under the age of 8.
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