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Letters: In Philly schools, new books shouldn't be news

ISSUE | PHILADELPHIA SCHOOLS New textbooks shouldn't be news A new school year has started in Philadelphia ("New thing in city schools: New books," Tuesday). How wonderful that the children will have new books, technology, counselors, and nurses. How dreadful that this is such a rare occurrence for the schools that it is the headline across the top of the front page.

ISSUE | PHILADELPHIA SCHOOLS

New textbooks shouldn't be news

A new school year has started in Philadelphia ("New thing in city schools: New books," Tuesday). How wonderful that the children will have new books, technology, counselors, and nurses. How dreadful that this is such a rare occurrence for the schools that it is the headline across the top of the front page.

Of course there should be books and technology and counselors and nurses. This should be a matter of course. If we value our children and their futures, then we must provide for them beyond scraping together the bare minimum of what they need. Whatever their backgrounds, whatever their skills and readiness to learn, the children come to school eager to learn. We have to do our part, we have to do what is right to provide them with the opportunities they deserve. We can find money for concerts and stadiums. Let's find money - really enough money - for schools.

|Sheryl Kalick, Philadelphia