Letters: Summer-school climate change
SCHOOLS CHIEF Arlene Ackerman spent nearly $600,000 so her "babies" would have air-conditioning during summer school.
For 30 years, they didn't have air conditioning. They opened the windows. Why can't they do it now? Also, the cost of installing went to union firms and will take a week, starting on a Saturday, a double-time day, and Sunday, ditto.
A rough estimate for this whole waste of money is $1.4 million, give or take $100,000. This type of fiscal irresponsibility shouldn't be tolerated. If her "babies" did their work during the school year, they wouldn't be in summer school.
And we wouldn't have to pay extra for the teachers, either.
Robert Stewart, Philadelphia
