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In cases where parents ore found responsible. Winter* said he would recommend to the Department of School Attendance and Work Permits that the parents be prosecuted under the District Compulsory School Attendance Act of 1925.
Maximum penalty for the misdemeanor is a fine of $10 and/or five days in jail. Winters, head of the Youth Aid Division, noted. He said that each two day's of unauthorized absence constitutes ft separate offense. % ? ,
Winters said that since a program of, checking on school-age children Spotted on the streets during school hours was begun a month ago, truancy reports had been turned in on 167 children.
Of these. 10 children were "repeaters,” Winters said. Parents of the youngsters were called jo Juvenile Bureau hearing, and’ there have been no more truancy complaints involving these children, he noted.
“We’re not interested' in prosecuting parents, as such, but’ rather preventing their children from becoming delinquent,” Winters expained.
"It is a well-established fact that habitual truancy is the forerunner of juvenile deh’nouencv >. . . we know from research and outside studies it is a danger signal. If we can reduce habitual trjlv ancy we feel we would be taking a major step toward our main pur-.. po«e — the prevention of deliquenrv.”
. If counseling and hearing ‘‘don’t have the designed effect.” Winters said. Juvenile Bureau investigators and detectives will investigate for evidence of parental shortcomings. ’
Alice Colbert Sheldon, director ■ of public school attendan'-e. said
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