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Let us take the four objections and consider them one by one.
(1) “That the proposed plan of aiding pupils to attend private schools will weaken the whole public school system of the State."
In reply to that, it must be stated most emphatically that the weakening of the public school system of Virginia has already been brought to pass by the fist of the Supreme Court of the United States in breaking up in a moment a system which had been in existence for a great many years and had been developed under prior decisions of the Supreme Court. The State had established and was developing as steadily as it cquld a system of separate schools for the White and Negro children. And today the State is in desperate uncertainty because of a definite smashing of old decisions in the enunciation of a new and different plan which the Supreme Court assumed authority to order put into effect. The weakening is already in effect; and the State, in all its educational interests; is reeling under the thunderbolt blow of destruction, as we face the necessity of saving our own ideal of public instruction.
(2) “There are not enough private schools in existence at present”.
The answer is, of course not. Private schools, from the business standpoint, like all other forms of business, are based upon public demand., If a new system of private schools is to je the solution of our problem, the State, working through its General Assembly must undoubtedly do what it can to develop our private schools into a strong and
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