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April 1

Mrs. L. Crocker

In reply to your communication of the 25th ult. relating to a Normal School school at Charlottesville, I would reply:

1st I believe in the expediency of having a specially good school, with a normal department, in each of the principal towns of the state rather than attempting to supply professionally trained teachers from one or two larger and more petentious establishments, in imitation of the northern method. The poverty of the people will compel the children to obtain their education within walking distance of their own domicil.

2nd I should not think that Charlottesville could furnish enough hopeful pupils for a purely normal school, though the judgment of your teachers on the ground may be better than mine. The good work which Misses Caskin & Gardner have been doing might be enlarged and improved without essentially changing the character of the school and without heavy expense. 


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