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Amendment To The Compulsory Education Act

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November 7th of 1922 Oregon passed an amendment to the Compulsory Education Act. Before the amendment the act decreed that all children between the ages of eight and sixteen must attend a public school unless they fall under certain extenuating circumstances. Circumstances including being mentally or physically unable to attend school, having already graduated from eighth grade, being homeschooled or tutored, living more than three miles from the nearest road or if the student was attending a state-recognized private school. The amendment to this law removed the last exception of the law, mandating that private schools were no longer an acceptable form of education, forcing children to attend public school. Had the act been successfully amended