What took so long to get cellphones out of classrooms?
Finally we’re starting to apply common sense and ban cellphones from classrooms (“Georgia school districts say cellphone bans are working,” AJC Jan. 12).
One has to wonder what took us so long to realize the obvious distraction these devices cause. One day, we’ll look back and question how cellphones ended up in classrooms to begin with.
JIM OHARE, SMYRNA
Goodbye and good riddance, TikTok
TikTok’s fate? Good riddance. And if TikTok’s “content creators” lose their jobs, there are plenty of other platforms available to spread unsuitable propaganda for young and old.
TikTok’s content creators should attempt to write a book that would appeal to youngsters. My little great-grandchildren don’t have access to TikTok, and they read a book each night before bedtime. My grandchildren didn’t have TikTok, and they survived somehow. My children had a black and white TV with rabbit ears that didn’t warp their minds. My generation had no TV or phones when we were children. We had blackboards, though.
Freedom of speech wasn’t intended to cover yelling fire in a crowded theater.
JACK FRANKLIN, CONYERS
Both parties have disappointed Americans
He is an embarrassment. He is crude. He is a terrible speaker, to name a few non-qualities. Yet the Democratic Party refuses to see its part in Donald Trump’s reelection.
President Joe Biden should never have become a second-term candidate. There were others who could have been chosen. One comes to mind: Dean Phillips, perhaps the first, and maybe only one who raised a red flag regarding Biden’s acuity. The party shushed him right out of the gate — almost en masse.
Many voters were appalled that the next Democratic gaff was appointing a candidate who just walked into her candidacy. Both parties have disappointed the American people. The past two elections prove it.
BARBARA KRASNOFF, ROSWELL
Forgiving Gov. Carter for measly teacher pay raises
I am a retired art professor who taught for 36 years at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.
Jimmy Carter was governor when I was a new art teacher at what was then West Georgia College. We got the poorest pay raises ever during his tenure. When he ran for president, I voted against him for this reason.
As years passed and he did his remarkable work for mankind, I praised him over and over. But my mother never let me forget I voted against him as president. I am now retired and live in Michigan, where I make ceramic art. I Georgia and my friends there.
Once, I rode to Plains from Atlanta and back with the Southern Bicycle League of Atlanta. Upon arriving in Plains, Carter greeted us all. That’s a memory I’ll never forget.
CAMERON COVERT, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
