I suppose, DY, that a priori if I have an opinion that is in conflict with someone’s daas torah, no amount of explanation will make it less appalling to the followers of said daas torah. That being said – If a community gives its women a responsibility, and that responsibility can be accomplished by someone dressed, acting, and comporting themselves in a tzanuah way, and the means to most efficiently and effectively accomplish that responsibility in a way neither contemplated by nor addressed by earlier poskim upon which certain chumros purport to rely, and the use of which in itself transgresses no clear halacha, I find it irrational and illogical to assert and enforce such a prohibition, especially by extorting compliance by threatening to remove children from a school. Extortion, namely the threat of expulsion and exclusion of children who have no choice in the matter to ensure compliance, is a vile way for anyone to exert control or assert power. Violating dina demalchusa dina for a questionable chumra is irrational. Making it more difficult for some mothers to accomplish their responsibilities when they are already nshei chayil binding the community together is illogical. And I find the way that the message was finessed and then walked back to be dishonest.
But I don’t believe I used the word absurd. You did, DY.