Madam, - I agree with the views of Anne Cahill regarding the provocative, bull-headed action by the Minister for Education to send out inspectors two days before Christmas to check that schools were open.
I wish to point out that the school in which I teach remained open for the Christmas examinations. However, a full 10 per cent of the students of one particular year group did not attend on that day. Perhaps truancy inspectors should now be dispatched to the same 500 schools to investigate possible lapses in pupil attendance. - Yours, etc.,
PETER McDONAGH, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.