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Good Citizenship Program

In 1915 the Texas legislature adopted a compulsory attendance statute as part of the Texas Education Code. This law required attendance of children in a public school unless they had a tutor or went to a private or parochial school that taught a study in good citizenship. Over seventy years later the Tarrant County judge who ruled in the Leeper v. Arlington ISD case that home schools were indeed legal in Texas also required that students who were taught at home use a curriculum from any source that covered the “basic educational goals of reading, spelling, grammar, math and a study in good citizenship.” He used the language of good citizenship because it was in the compulsory attendance statute that exempted students from public school if they were going to a private school.

What is a study in good citizenship?

Home schooling and Redefinition of Citizenship (12 page treatise)