Word: sandeens
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...Krals have been in and out of Minnesota's courts ever since, defending themselves against charges of violating the state's compulsory school-attendance law. Fortnight ago the case came up before Municipal Judge Searle Sandeen of Stillwater, who listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David...
...testimony of school officials against the Krals was decisive. They said nothing about the quality of either public-school teaching or Tommy's home instruction. They simply attested to Tommy's absence from school and recited the truancy law. Judge Sandeen's ruling: 30 days in jail (subject to appeal) for the Krals...
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