
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 28, 1993                   TAG: 9306280244
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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PAMPER THE CROOKS; COOK THE KIDS

NOW THAT our state legislators have decided in their infinite greed and myopia that public schools cannot open until after Labor Day, we're in session until roughly two weeks before July 4. On three mornings during the last week of school, the temperature in my room at Patrick Henry High School was nearly 90 degrees when I opened the door at 7:45. Students cannot learn under these conditions; they are either too listless or too irritable.

If schools must be in late session because of asinine legislation, we need to get our priorities straight and air-condition the schools. The city jail is air-conditioned. Should we pamper prisoners and cook kids?

JACQUELYN S. ARNOLD ROANOKE

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