LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Why not cancel school entirely?

OPINION:

I agree with R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. that a Friday children’s crusade about the perils of global warming is reasonable (“When the children take charge,” Web, March 19), but I would go further and excuse absences from school each and every weekday for other designated perils. If I may be so bold, even though I am a doddering septuagenarian, I suggest that we excuse students for the following perils: Monday, Donald Trump; Tuesday, Mitch McConnell; Wednesday, fossil fuels; and Thursday, capitalism. This is such a very precious idea, in fact, that I believe a nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize may be in order for the founder of the Friday peril. Shame on so many of you crusty conservatives who thought that our public education system was failing.

PAUL BLOUSTEIN

Cincinnati, Ohio