Parent’s or Guardian’s duty to have child of compulsory school age educated

Every person having control of a child, who is five years old by the first day of September and who has not exceeded the age of fourteen, shall cause the child to regularly and annually attend some public or non public school for the entire term during which the public school in the district in which the person resides, or the school to which the child is assigned to attend, is in session, until the child reaches the age of fourteen years, unless the child has graduated or is excused as provided in sections 60 (2) (a) and 61 (2) (a), (b) and (c) of this Act.