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amount that would be demanded that every student within

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the State of Maryland have spent on him, and I am almost

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certain that in dollars and cents the demand when we talk

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about equal educational opportunity would be no more dol-

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lars be spent on one child than another. I think the

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educational system ought to be free to determine what

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each child needs in order to achieve his maximum poten-

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tial capacity, and then spend the dollars in that way. It

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means you may have to spend a thousand dollars on one

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child, or series of children in certain economic or

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cultural levels, you may have to spend five hundred on others

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but I think this ought to be freedom without reference to

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the misleading phrase such as equal educational opportunity

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in the Constitution.

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This past June I had the good fortune of spend-

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ing ten days, including working Sundays and evenings in a

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workshop comprised of educators from all parts of the

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country; and one of the things we dealt with was the ques-

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tion of educational disadvantages, and it became quite

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clear in that workshop that one thing that the educational

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systems throughout the United Stated failed to do was to