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provide by law for equal educational opportunities for all

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Marylanders, those words do sound good. I don't think

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there is anyone in this assembly today that doesn't agree

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that this is what we like, what we want to do, but it is

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another thing to implement it. In fact, it is impossible

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to do.

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I feel and believe that education must be free

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to let creative influences come and flow through it, and

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when you have this kind of thing that says everything shall

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be equal, then where and what happens to the diversity,

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what happens to the creative influences that we know are

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needed in education. Then it comes to the problem of

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meaning. I am sure that if we ask every member in this

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assembly sitting here today, What does equal educational

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opportunity mean for all residents, you get 142 different

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answers .

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Does it mean complete, total, free education

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from infancy to the grave? Does it mean that each child

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must receive the same amount of money for education, re-

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gardless of circumstances? Does it mean that the technical

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school in St. Mary's must offer the same identical type of