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Readers discuss an article about most Yale students receiving A’s. Also: An ode to winter; religious resistance to vaccination.

Legislatures in Florida, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas and North Dakota that passed bills creating voucher programs or expanding existing ones just this year.

In an op-ed, TC’s Sam Abrams assesses a recent proposal by French politicians

The Atlantic The Dark Side of Box Tops for Education The school-funding program recently switched from offering rebates for physical labels to an app, frustrating many users and highlighting some of the program’s long-standing contradictions and inequalities. For many young adults and their parents, the words box tops evoke fond memories of cutting out cardboard rectangles and stuffing them into Ziploc bags to carry to school. The Box Tops for Education program, founded in 1996, is a General Mills initiative that allows families to redeem labels from eligible food and household products fo...

WESLEY CHAPEL — Sending three children back to school is a lot of work in any circumstance. But the coronavirus heaped even more concerns on Amanda Marler and her family this fall. Her daughter was navigating the hustle-bustle of high school. Her sons were in elementary school, each with his own learning style. To her relief, Marler found a new charter school for the younger two. Enrolling them at Pinecrest Academy in Wesley Chapel, she concluded, would make pandemic life easier and more predictable than sending them to their regular public school, Watergrass Elementary. “We understood th...