Challenge to Missouri school attendance law takes odd turn
Thursday, September 16, 2004
JEFFERSON CITY -- In hearing a challenge to Missouri's compulsory school attendance statute Wednesday, the state Supreme Court did an abrupt about face from disbelief that a parent could reasonably conclude that her daughter's 60 percent attendance rate complied with the law to bewilderment that the mitigating fact of the child's pregnancy during the period in question was not raised at the parent's trial.