Air Conditioning

Responding to the purported need for air conditioning in year-round schools, one writer (Letters, Sept. 25) remembered that she’d gone to summer school without air conditioning in the 1950s and 1960s. The summer school programs I remember ran from 8 a.m. to noon, not during the hottest part of the day.

There still are students who want to learn and teachers who want to teach, but it’s awfully difficult to be enthusiastic, energetic or encouraging in stifling heat.

CHARLES SEMONIAN

Newbury Park