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pre-1916 status. The schools were bad. The governor
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sat --
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MR. BOND: He sat on the School Board?
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MR. RAVER: That is right. Ho appointed the
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State Super intendant. What happens in this, pretty soon
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you get an absolutely non-uniform treatment of schools,
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and you destroy what we have worked for for fifty years,
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1916 to 1966, to achieve, namely, a uniform public system
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of public education free of political control, and so I
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am almost afraid to mention these words here, but --
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THE CHAIRMAN: Mention any word you want.
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MR. RAVER: So help me, I do think there will
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be a very real fright and fear on the people because,
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naturally, we have over the years reminded them of the
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Flexner-Bachman Report, and what has been accomplished in
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public education with freedom from political control, et
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cetera, and people in this Stste think highly of it, and
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it will, of course, be either Dr. Sensenbaugh's job or
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mine or someone's to inform teachers' groups and interested
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lay groups of the recommendations of the Commission, and the
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subcommittees, and I believe they will be frightened. I
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