What readers are saying online

‘Is it really necessary for students to bring cellphones to school? If cellphones are creating problems, make a new rule that students aren’t allowed to bring them to school.

This is just old fashioned common sense. Students have access to numerous phones in school offices if they need to call home. No one even had cellphones until just a few years ago, and when I was in school we all made it through the day fine without them.’

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‘I think it would be a great idea to take them out of schools as well. We made it going to school without them. Also the schools disciplinary reports will show a lot of trouble with cellphones.

Teachers at the schools are competing with cellphones in order to teach a curriculum. Cellphones also have a record button and they can even make video at school. I have always said to take them out.

Kids can also call ahead to their parents and have them signed out at the child’s convenience. No one needs them at school. School is for learning not playing on cellphones and talking! Take them out! Teachers have enough things to contend with and cellphones cause problems.’

What readers are saying about the problem intersection at Pike Hill Road and Old Smithville Road where motorists ignore stop sign and cause accidents:

‘I am sure that many of the wrecks are from locals who fail to stop at the Pike Hill Road stop sign, but a big part of the problem is that the Old Smithville Road traffic is usually going 45-60 mph when they top the hill from the north.

You stop, look and it’s clear. Then you start across and boom, there comes county traffic into the city limits moving at interstate speed. There is only about 130 feet of visibility to the north. The answer is slow those people down prior to them topping the hill prior to Pike Hill intersection.’

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‘Sounds like a few traffic violation tickets need to be written to those who choose to roll through the stop sign. That seems to help better than anything!’