Young student will go far

To the editor:

I was reading the Frontiersman for March 29 when I happened across the letter from Abigail Adams. She is talking about kids text-messaging in class while the teacher is trying to teach a class.

I can’t imagine one teacher would allow a cell phone in class, let alone someone who would put up with it. Parents are you really allowing your children to have cell phones in class when they should be in their lockers, or should have cell phones at all? I know everyone wants their kids to be safe, but for crying out loud, the teachers are trying to get your kids to learn something.

Here is a 12-year-old who seems to think these text messaging kids are a pain in the butt. No wonder the teachers are just speechless.

Our niece, Diane, was a veterinarian student in Ames, Iowa during the ’60s when all the college kids were marching on campus for this and that or any reason not to be in class. These kids were doing sit-ins and in general disturbing everyone who would listen. One day Diane went to class only to have her professor tell her to go to her dorm room and study this and that. She politely told him her parents and she had paid good money to for her to be taught her studies and just because everyone else was out marching, she was not. She said, “teach me.” He taught her.

Abigail Adams your teachers must be proud of you. I can tell you that this 73-year-old grandma is. You will go far my child.

Millie Wickham

Palmer