The best letter we've read in a while!

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022

From yesterday's New York Times:  We should have posted the letter yesterday. It came from that day's New York Times.

It's the best letter we've read in a while. Heading included, it went exactly like this:

The Day I Skipped School

To the Editor:

Re “Your Kids Can Handle Dangerous Ideas,” by Matt Gross (Opinion guest essay, April 30), which opens with an anecdote about skipping school:

In 1943, on a warm spring afternoon, my mother was swayed by my pleas to skip school the rest of the day. I was surprised but delighted. The next day I brought the teacher my excuse note, written in my mother’s best hand, which said I had suffered an attack of spring fever.

At 90, I still remember lying on the lawn, watching drifting clouds.

Margaret Mary K— C— / Cleveland Heights, Ohio

In our view, the writer's mother seems to have gotten it right.

Fuller disclosure: On one or two occasions, our own sainted mother let us stay home from grade school to watch the seventh game of the World Series.

Such games were played in the daytime then. They involved the Milwaukee Braves, not long removed from our own native Boston.

Casey Stengel had once managed the team, when they were called the Boston Bees. Based upon an anecdote, our sainted mother, as a young woman, had dated one of Casey's players way back and long ago then.

If you're lucky enough to be able to do so, remember to drift with the clouds!