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To the Editors of the Rappahannock News
Dear Sirs:
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J have today received a notice from the Principal of the Rappahannock County High School advising me that, before my son can be transfered to the fourth grade at Sperryville, an application for transfer must be filed with the State Pupil Placement Board- This is required by law enacted at the last session of the General Assembly.
As a Christian and a citizen, it is my religious duty to comply with the laws of the civil government so long as those laws do* not conflict with the higher allegiance that . I owe to God-1 am not at liberty to break the law simply because I do not like it. But I want to go on record publicly as protesting the Pupil Placement Law as unconstitutional, inefficient and a considered attempt to deceive the people of this State as to the nature and the solution of the problem that lies before our educational system.
We have heard a great deal of talk in recent months about the doctrine of “states rights” and the attempt of the Federal Government to upsurp the privileges of the several States. In some instances those who appeal- to this argument may have weight on their side. But let them be consistant.' A State is no more than the extension of the local governments banded together for mutual benefit. For the State of Virginia to set up a Board which will upsurp the rights of the local Schoci Boards to decide on the placement of a pupil seems to me to be a clear violation of the principle of "states rights” carried to its logical conclusion. Surely the local Boards are far more familiar with conditions and local tensions and their proper solution than a group in Richmond. -
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