(10) school days or their equivalent during a school year and
after a first notice of truancy is sent for that school year.
"Compulsory school age" shall mean the period of a child's
life from the time the child's parents elect to have the child
enter school, which shall be not later than at the age of eight
(8) years, until the age of seventeen (17) years. The term shall
not include any child who holds a certificate of graduation from
a regularly accredited senior high school.
[The term "migratory child," wherever used in this
subdivision of this article,] "Migratory child" shall include
any child domiciled temporarily in any school district for the
purpose of seasonal employment, but not acquiring residence
therein, and any child accompanying his parent or guardian who
is so domiciled.
Section 2. Section 1332 of the act, amended January 14, 1970
(1969 P.L.468, No.192), is amended to read:
Section 1332. Reports of Enrollments; Attendance and
Withdrawals; Public and Private Schools.--(a) Every principal
or teacher in every public school, and every principal, teacher
or tutor in every school other than a public school, and in
every institution for children, and every private teacher in
every school district, shall, immediately after their admission
to such school or institution, or at the beginning of such
private teaching, furnish to the district superintendents,
attendance officers, home and school visitors, or secretaries of
the boards of school directors of the districts wherein the
parents or guardians of such children reside, lists of the names
and residences of all children between six (6) and eighteen (18)
years of age enrolled in such school or institution, or taught
by such private teachers; and shall further report at once to
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