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DELEGATE LORD: I anticipated that amendment

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to some extent. I don't think it adds anything because

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I think it further muddies the water. I think the point

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has been made clear by Delegates Raley, Borom, Winslow and

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Cardin, that no one knows what this clause means. Certain-

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ly the Majority in the short space of one month from

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November, or two weeks actually from November 9 to Novem-

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ber 27, when it submitted its memorandum, has changed its

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position entirely. Everyone in the Majority is quite clear

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that it meant free tuition for as long as the child wanted

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to go to school. Now they disavow this intention and say

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that the words are "incapable of precise definition".

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Now, if this confusion exists in this body, I

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submit that this confusion is going to be compounded when

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this language is incorporated into a document that is to

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go to the people for application. I submit that it is a

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litigation breeder of the worst sort; even without this

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language in the State of Virginia there is a pending law-

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suit brought by a county of the type that was described

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by Dr. Pullen that receives small amounts of money from

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the State to equalize that amount of money that is received