Judicial Adjudication in Problems of School Attendance

Education, like every other important task of society, would surely be greatly handicapped without the benevolent intervention of the courts in our country. Adjudication of the many problems -- in which education through practical application of theory becomes involved -- has been left with our judicial system. The intervention of the judiciary has been received by some in an unwelcome manner, but every wise thinking .American deems judicial adjudication not only desirable but absolutely essential to the success of our public school system. It has been estimated that approximately one million six hundred thousand decisions of appellate courts since 1658 in this country have been put at the disposal of attorneys and students of the law. Only when one becomes entangled in some part of that vast maze of cases and returns therefrom with a classification of the law grouped around a certain topic can one experience the particular satisfaction which has been that of the author of this thesis. Work on this thesis has been made an intensely interesting and satisfactory occupation because of its very nature