Madam, - I was delighted to read in your issue of June 9th that the two unions for second-level teachers have called for the introduction of a second Leaving Certificate for students who fall ill during the exams.
Might I suggest that it would also be available to those who suffer the death of a parent or sibling? How can these students possibly do justice to the five or six years' work they have done when they return from the funeral of a loved one? - Yours, etc.,
KATHLEEN O'KEEFFE, Coolatree Close, Beaumont, Dublin 9.