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John Morley: “Instead of compulsory attendance being universal, that principle could only be applied where a school board was found…”

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Instead of compulsory attendance being universal, that principle could only be applied where a school board was found, and where the school board liked to apply it.
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John Morley

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Morley discusses the conditional nature of compulsory school attendance based on the presence of school boards.

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