The Louvre Jewel Theft and More: Letters

Call Clouseau!

If Inspector Jacques Clouzot were around today, these villains (“Holy blue! The looted jewels of the Louvre!” October 20) He will be in prison by the end of the week – just a thought.

Jim Grant

Jensen Beach, Florida

Further in W’mart

It’s great news that Beyond Meat is sold at Walmart (‘W’mart deal shakes out even further’ October 22).

I don’t care much about stocks, but I support anything that will stop animal suffering and reduce greenhouse gases. And more people are likely to buy Beyond Meat products now that its stock is so popular.

Heather Moore

Norfolk, Virginia

Long term effects

Raphael’s column is taken by A. Mangual and Naomi Schaefer Reilly’s short-sighted and short-sighted approach to child welfare policy (“Save the children” Post Opinion, October 19).

Child care policy would be easy if we could make decisions based on a single data point. But responsible policy making also weighs the impact on children later.

Do child protection investigations have lasting effects? Does it make children healthier in the long term? The aforementioned study does not answer these questions.

Research also shows that the child welfare system is traumatizing and causes many negative effects that persist for years after investigation.

The authors overlook that the study itself says “a large body of evidence shows that cash and in-kind transfers may have long-term benefits for children.” Strategies like financial support are an important part of child care policy solutions in a system that, unfortunately, cannot be solved with a single data point.

Alison green

Port Chester

Math figure it out

New York’s new mathematics guidelines suggest that practicing standard mathematical facts and algorithms is not as useful as allowing students to discover their own ways of doing mathematics (“New York does numbers in math.” October 19).

I can name a few people who “discovered” ways to do mathematics: Pythagoras, Isaac Newton, and Leonard Euler, to name a few. But they “figured it out” after decades of perseverance and research.

It’s hard enough for students to understand and retain what they’ve been explicitly taught – why make it harder?

Jesse Friedman

Marlboro, New Jersey

Baby Democrats failed

Here are 154,000 homeless public school students in New York City (“One in 7 students is homeless” October 21).

Of the students that He does They go to school, and many of them cannot read, write, or do math at their grade level. This is the result of the policies of New York’s liberal politicians and union bosses Michael Mulgrew and Randi Weingarten.

They have welcomed 238,000 illegal immigrants into our city since 2022, disrupting schools, health care and housing – what did they expect? Shame on Senator Chuck Schumer, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams. Our children are our future and none of the above cares about our youth.

J.R. Cummings

Manhattan

January 6 threat

A man who participated in the January 6 Capitol riot was arrested but later pardoned by President Trump on charges of threatening to “eliminate” New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (“January 6 targets Jefferies” October 22).

The MAGA agent is not the first pardoned Capitol rioter to be arrested on separate new charges. But he is the first to be accused of making a violent threat against a member of Congress. What will come next from the charges? I expect, at worst, a slap on the wrist.

Where is Morabito?

Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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