On Do you support ban on all cellphone use while driving?

Posted on December 14 at 2:04 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Its simple to implement, phones have GPS. if its traveling faster than 10mph there is denial of service except for 911 calls.

When u take your child's toys away you don't leave them sitting right next to them and leave the room.

There have been many studies conducted showing people, as a group, suck at driving while doing anything other than driving. They equate cellphone users worse than drunk drivers in a fair portion of them.

On Wis. gov holds his ground as protests continue

Posted on February 20 at 5:51 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Sigh

Then again if everyone was educated who would work all those minimum wage jobs.

On Wis. gov holds his ground as protests continue

Posted on February 20 at 5:47 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

I think the public school system as a whole is horrible. Maybe 5% of the teachers actually try to reach the students they teach. That is my number based on experience. Every school year I had a few outstanding teachers trying to connect daily with every student while the taught.

The rest of the teachers either didn't care or did not realize their failure to reach their target audience. Training is great, but it only achieves so much. In classes with good teachers I participated, every other teacher I was not there I would do everything possible to entertain myself. Sometimes I was disruptive to others.

Was I the perfect student, no. Was I normal, no. Did I react like every student once they realize nothing was occurring in class, yes.

I hate how this plays out for the great teacher. Not so much for the rest of them. Without redefining the role of an educator in this country, this situation will erupt across the nation.

The good teachers will stay, "good" by my standards. They are addicted to teaching and reaching their students and are ungodly smart. Its the reason they are not making mad money in the field of their choice. They love teaching kids.

The others will fall to the wayside, find other jobs and we will end up with a new face reading out of a book to our students. If you read from the book or other printed text to your students, your a moron that managed to dot every i and t. There is a thing called homework and reading assignments, so you can have a worthwhile discussion in class.

Until we pay educators a premium, compared to the industry standard, the students will never compete on national test scores in comparison with other countries. Which should be the real goal of government.

On Schools continue to deal with cellular misbehaving

Posted on December 8 at 2:12 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Yes, I said brick. Because the 1st mobile phones were as large and weighed almost as much as one. it wasn't until the mid 90's they started to shrink and become somewhat useful for a select few professionals. Like a real estate agent who can contact other real estate agents to gain access to homes to show clients that just notices a new home on the market while looking at other homes.

As far as extra curricular activities, last time I checked those are scheduled well in advance and you have plenty of time to prepare. If you don't have enough time for homework and have to do it on the bus while your carted around then your have too much on your plate. Since you should be preparing for your debate or your game.

About the only real use I see cell phones put to use for is entertainment. Not streaming music and movies. I am talking self indulgence with a lack of self control. They sit there texting or talking on them to entertain themselves until they fall asleep or have to move to the next chair. This is not just kids, this is every single person with a cell phone.

On Schools continue to deal with cellular misbehaving

Posted on December 7 at 11:15 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Mobile bricks are 20th century technology. I have programmed and fixed computers for 27 years.

As far as people dying, people know where I work. They can always get a hold of me. I am confident all the people I care about understand if I am not doing mach 5 to arrive at their death bed. After all we did have quite a few years together to enjoy each others presence.

If you had no cell phone you would have a house phone and one of them answering machine doohickeys...

You only have to worry about pedophiles? and you actually have access to a database of where they live now? Wish that was available 30 years ago. Rampage anyone? I only had to deal with drug dealers, gangs, and people trying to run you over when you were trying to cross the street.

Onstar is a joke. Then again I can't say there is a single place in rock county that isn't 3 miles from somewhere. That is provided your in the country on a back road directly between 2 large farms.

If you do manage to find the middle of nowhere, elsewhere in the state ,where you haven't seen a house in 10 miles. Its a safe bet there is no cell service either. If someone is willing to commit a crime against your person they aren't going to let you use your phone.

Which makes me wonder what the use of having a cell phone is if its not to be in touch with the people your working for or with because your doing a pivotal job requiring your presence in multiple places at random times.

On Schools continue to deal with cellular misbehaving

Posted on December 6 at 12:29 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Where to begin. If you have a cell phone and your not at work holding a job that requires you to wander around your plant, then your a failure. There is no reason for phones anywhere other than attached to a cord plugged into a wall.

I can see in case of emergency, but doesn't every car have onstar now or something close?

Cold weather? I had a paper route, I learned young to bundle up and stay warm for hours of snowball fights. To contact you or for you to contact them at school? There is an office leave a message.

The whole year I would walk or ride my bike 10 miles or more to go to school and practice for sports or anything else. That doesn't include gym or actual practice where you run for 2-5 hours doing drills. You always found someone with a car to give you a ride and made friends with others who had vehicles.

There is no reason for cellular phones.

On Pavement sealer is pollution source

Posted on December 6 at 12:02 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

LIES! I know its tobacco causing all the harmful effects. There is no way people could spend more time in a day around this stuff than they do around 2nd hand smoke.

On Teen driver crashes into house while texting, police say

Posted on October 26 at 1:19 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

As I have said before the easiest way to stop cell use while in a vehicle is to deny service to anything traveling faster than 15 mph. Almost every phone has GPS at this point and would be a simple hardware/software layer determining use.

I don't care about passengers not being able to use their phones. They have enough to do with their games on their phones, mp3 players, or their PSP and DS. Distracted driving is a problem too which comes about when there is too much going on inside a vehicle.

There would be the ability for certain people to have use of their phones while using public transport. Akin to wireless hot spots where people on the bus or train would be allowed to use their phones with hardware giving temporary passes to the phones while in close proximity. As far as airplanes, GPS would disable them until the planes reach a safe altitude to allow phone use.

On Milton City Council supports possible interchange study

Posted on September 22 at 11:48 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

I think on/off ramps at the bottom of a hill, from both directions, is the best idea I heard this year.

Milton setup its industrial areas to the east side of town for hwy 26 many years ago. You rarely see a semi using 59 to go to Newville. Granted there are a few in the Southwest, but they have dealt with the logistics of those problems years ago.

This would be a ramp used twice a day for 10-15 minutes by a handful of people. Every major business in Milton would have to drive 2 miles across town then 2 more miles out to the ramp. County M would have to be replaced to support anything other than increased car traffic, even then.

Nothing like wanting to get a bridge/road to nowhere.

On Should athletes get phy ed credit?

Posted on September 9 at 12:32 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

I walked or rode my bike to school everyday, about a 3 mile round trip. In gym you usually ran a mile in middle school and high school before you started whatever sport unit for the day. Then there was city or school sports, school was simple you didn't have to wait for practice. But that was another 3 mile round trip to the soccer field closer to 5 miles round trip to the football and baseball fields.

Practice usually consisted of 1-4 miles runs before you even started practice, depending on the sport. All the wanted you to do was run in soccer. You can't play all game if your tired after 5 minutes.

They won't drop dead from too much exertion. I did about 10 miles a day just to play sports, its impossible to tell how much you actually ran once you were practicing. If anything it spreads out their physical conditioning, creating a stronger player less likely to be injured.

This is about cutting gym class sizes and saving money, not about what is best for conditioning the athlete to play their sports.