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Voting for the Constitutional Convention on January 9 is a- vote for maintaining the status quo in our schools. A strong vote in favor of|segregation will give our State Education Committee a better chance of dealing with this problem in the next schoo} year. Just what the future of our; schools will be, no one can predict. Certain it is that desegregation would destroy the present system immediately. I am in favor of giving jthe Constitutional Convention a free hand in trying to world out with "the General Assembly; the best solution. I have ledrned from the press that the leaders in our State whom we have trusted are in favor of this plait It may not be the best;; but it will at least enable them to work toward a better [solution. Senator Harry Byrd has given us a sensible interpretation of the present situation. I can trust his judgment in this matter.

I have had no occasion to find out the feeling of the School Board or the Superintendent of Schools in Culpeper County; but knowing the usual working of their minds, I daresay they are in favor of the present plan. The teachers are more deeply concerned personally than any other group. I venture that ^0% of them are for the present system.. ' ■ ; ; • |

I am frank to admit that I do not write as a specialist on this subject. ! have not had time to read the best that

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