Sentences with phrase «irregular in school attendance»

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If the parents of any community are indifferent to the best interests and the proper training of their children, if they elect unfit men as school officers, if they permit petty quarrels and jealousies to interfere with the administration of the school, if they try to run the schools on the cheapest basis, if they encourage tardiness, irregular attendance, and insubordination in their children, then the schools of the community may be little better than training places in shiftless habits, incompetence, disregard for the law, and even positive immorality.