As much as Jess Phillips is right to denounce the cuts that force her son’s school to close on a Friday afternoon (Report, 6 March), will it do him much harm? In East Lothian, where my four grandchildren go/went to school, they all quit at lunchtime on Friday and have done as far back as the millennium (I think). I was told that nothing much ever got done on a Friday afternoon.
Maybe their parents should all have stormed Holyrood, but given it was supposedly for their children’s benefit, they seemed to accept it.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• The Guardian letters page is marking International Women’s Day by publishing only letters from women – see them all at gu.com/letters and at the following links:
Women worldwide must be heard and respected
Rape victims can’t trust the justice system
School pupils can make their climate change strike hurt
Cuts severely damaged Ruskin College’s role and reputation
