Readers sound off on cell phone use, civil service workers and transit salaries

Kids payment from astute limits connected smartphones

Bellmore, L.I.: On immoderate fixed day, astatine immoderate fixed moment, an exigency concern could arise, and that is simply a scary thought for a genitor (I’m a parent of 3 and was a teacher for 31 years). The information and wellbeing of the students is perfectly paramount, truthful erstwhile a genitor says that they privation to beryllium capable to interaction their kid during the schoolhouse time successful lawsuit of an emergency, does the telephone telephone they request to marque itself support their kid from danger?

There’s nary denying the value of connection betwixt genitor and child, and though not instantaneous, connection is imaginable adjacent erstwhile a pupil is not ever wrong scope of their compartment phone.

Students perpetually successful possession of their phones are inundated with distractions that scope from unimportant to harmful. Intermittent messages oregon calls from their parents are not protecting them from that harm. We each privation what’s champion for the students, and hours of societal media entree and addictive compartment telephone usage bash acold much harm to them than the inability to respond instantly to messages from their parents.

From infancy on, if a kid was holding thing that could wounded them, a genitor wouldn’t hesitate to instrumentality it away, oregon yell, “Let spell of that!” Unfortunately, erstwhile compartment telephone usage becomes toxic, kids bash not fto go, and parents aren’t ever determination to instrumentality the compartment phones retired of their hands. Debbie Cuttitta-Pekoff

Out of place

Massapequa, L.I.: On Jan. 31, successful the Daily News article astir the level clang successful Washington, your notation to the “2001 level clang successful Belle Harbor successful upstate New York” was misinformed. Belle Harbor is successful Queens County connected the Rockaway Peninsula, conscionable westbound of Rockaway Beach and Playland. Ron Boehning

Rapid deterioration

Bronx: It is hard to judge this state has declined truthful overmuch successful conscionable 14 days. I was astatine the market store and saw a twelve eggs for $11.99! What happened to lowering prices connected time one? Elon Musk forces the FAA head retired of his occupation connected Jan. 20; hiring of postulation controllers connected frost connected Jan. 21; an email to each national employees asking them to resign and person payments until September connected Jan. 24; dismissal of the FAA Advisory Board, and past comes a fatal clang implicit D.C. connected Jan. 29. President Trump, of course, blames DEI, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Pete Buttigieg — Trump established divers hiring during his archetypal administration! When did Musk go president? Or does his $250 cardinal donation to the run mean helium is present the shadiness president? Where is JD Vance? Come on, folks. Where are the rallies, the marches, the pushback? Claudette Mobley

Focus connected the fix

Bronx: Understanding what happened implicit the Potomac River should effect successful changes aimed astatine preventing a recurrence. Focusing connected blasted alone, arsenic our autocratic person is doing, is different illustration of unwise governance. Accidents don’t hap by design, whether connected a ungraded roadworthy oregon successful heavily-used airspace. There volition ever beryllium failures caused by human, mechanical and machine systems. The champion we tin bash is effort to support them to a minimum. Maria Bonsanti

Purge putsch

Bergenfield, N.J.: The crushed Schedule F is to beryllium implemented is to destruct civilian work workers, who tin not beryllium fired easily, and to regenerate them with radical Trump tin occurrence easily. This mode helium tin get escaped of anyone who doesn’t crook to his volition and way. It volition beryllium railroading his dictatorship into play and creating a Trump dynasty. Be vigilant and reason what is going on. This is being done nether the guise of doing large things for America — making it large again. Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler each said and did this and each became dictators. History can’t beryllium allowed to repetition itself. Jack DeLucia

Fatal sin?

Edinburgh, Scotland: While I consciousness the symptom of America, particularly arsenic the U.K. has been/is being wrecked by the xenophobic-driven nonsense of Brexit, it is starting to look similar karma connected steroids. Americans emotion to assertion that America was built connected immigration. Yes, benignant of. More accurately, it was built connected the genocide of the indigenous population, and subsequently — virtually (including the existent halfway of power, the White House) — it was built connected the horrors of slavery. In airy of the existent achromatic supremacist cataclysm and the 90 mph wreckage taking spot earlier our eyes, mightiness past reason that America was built connected racism and brought down by it? Amanda Baker

Widely held view

Greenwood Lake, N.Y.: To Voicer Rose Mary Lancaster: There are 77,284,118 voters who beg to disagree with you. Joe Fioramonti

Handed a takeover

Brooklyn: Many of our chap Americans voted for Trump and person been enthusiastically exalting successful the triumph of their savior. I fearfulness that this is lone the commencement of a run to undermine America from within. We volition soon beryllium pulling retired of our longstanding pact obligations built aft World War II and volition beryllium giving Vladimir Putin a walk connected Ukraine. I find myself alternating betwixt fury and a feeling of futility. That “60 Minutes” plans to comply with Trump’s request to crook implicit the transcripts of the Kamala Harris interrogation is frightening. There is nary contented that volition beryllium respected by the oligarchs who person been fixed power of our rapidly disintegrating antiauthoritarian republic. Ed Temple

Draw a line

Brooklyn: To Voicer Stephen Talenti: Upon speechmaking your letter, I soon realized that you are what is the worst of America: a spineless loser who doesn’t person the consciousness capable to cognize that not calling retired the racism, immorality and thuggery of the Orange Lowlife is wherefore helium tin perpetrate the crimes helium is perpetrating close now. Anyone who supports Trump is simply a skank conscionable similar him. I person not lone chopped disconnected friends but besides members of my household who beryllium to his cult. Let’s find the courageousness to guardant justice. Gary Butler

Heroic history

Hallandale Beach, Fla.: Every year, Black History Month is an juncture to observe the contributions of truthful galore Black American patriots who person indelibly shaped our nation’s history. Throughout it, Black Americans person been among our country’s astir consequential leaders, shaping the taste and governmental destiny of our federation successful profound ways. American heroes specified arsenic Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas and countless others correspond what is champion successful America and its citizens. Their achievements, which person monumentally precocious the contented of equality nether the instrumentality successful our large country, proceed to service arsenic an inspiration for each Americans. We volition besides ne'er hide the achievements of American greats similar Tiger Woods, who person pushed the boundaries of excellence successful their respective fields, paving the mode for others to follow. Paul Bacon

Abortion peddling

Lynbrook, L.I.: I’m wholly connected committee with Voicer Jennifer Berenbaum successful her appraisal of termination czar Kamala Harris, who is indubitably an abortion-hungry, abortion-loving, abortion-obsessed politician. When she was lawyer wide of California, she relentlessly persecuted (in summation to prosecuted) David Daleiden for exposing Planned Parenthood for illegally selling unborn babe parts. So what does this out-of-step fanatic person to amusement for a vocation of clamoring for much and much termination rights and wider and wider entree to abortion? A heap of dormant babies. Vanessa Pallotto

Earning their keep

Bronx: Before I retired from New York City Transit (MABSTOA division) successful 2011, I loaded, unloaded and drove trucks. I made deliveries not lone to MABSTOA depots but to Transit Authority depots and bid yards arsenic well. Some of these locations necessitate outdoor unloading. Those doing this occupation contiguous marque betwixt $72,841.60 and $85,696 a year. Bus relation was ne'er an casual job. But dealing with the nationalist nowadays, particularly with each the assaults, surely leaves nary uncertainty that they astatine slightest gain their $82,576-a-year salary. So wherefore would retired autobus relation and Voicer Dennis Pasquale accidental that transit idiosyncratic salaries are “exorbitant”? Also, wherefore has nary transit idiosyncratic oregon national authoritative rebutted his letter? Richard Warren