What justifies the state in compelling children to attend school in what does its authority to mandate attendance lie?
Consequently, as we do not mandate attendance, there would have been many who felt it unnecessary.
Finally, increasing the level of supervision during entrance examination, mandating attendance at lectures and discouraging substance use among students are also likely to reduce cheating.
Over the years, several judges around the country have mandated church attendance as part of sentences, sometimes stirring criticism.
The school has cracked down on disengaged students, according to a statement by its director, Sharon Williams, who said a policy adopted last December mandates attendance at online classes for those students who do not log in, repeatedly fail to complete lessons or are failing three courses.
There are some students, however, such as cheerleaders, members of the band, and, of course, the team members themselves, for whom seasonal commitments mandate their attendance, sometimes for class credit.
But an intemperate reaction to a particular way of framing church-state issues is not exactly the same thing as a call to mandate church attendance, or to deny Jews and agnostics the right to hold public office, or to behead Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris for their offenses against theism.
Some local officials attempted to force conversions to Protestantism by mandating church attendance and persecuting Catholics, but Rainilaiarivony quickly responded to quell these overzealous practices.
We mandate the attendance of the board chair as well as the executive director at all sessions of our training because we believe staff and board leaders aligned in common purpose can transform nonprofit organizations.
While before the reform pupils were mandated to attend school until their 17th birthday, after the reform mandatory school attendance increased to age 18 (or until a higher secondary diploma was obtained if that comes at an early age).
