Dee Dee is to be openly complimented here. Most folks don't know that only about 1 out of 3 students complete the 2 yr RN program at Northern. They have the highest "boards" scores in the state.
It's a 2 yr straight through summers also program and if a student stops to party a couple times they are usually too far behind to make it and have to come back the next year. Great program though and there is such an immense shortage of nurses throughout the whole U.S.
A high school councilor told my wife she wouldn't have a chance making it through that RN program. She graduated with over a 3.0. Never listen to a negative councilor if you have an ambition. I knew of a fellow who flunked every math course on his way to becoming an electrical engineer and a company president. He just took it over the next quarter and did better. It's attitude and drive that win.

like Jimers, I found Bill Thackeray's classes at Northern to be very informative and learned to write in a more disaplined and logical manner.
Which was quite a feat, since I was totally stressed by my heavy duty studies for nursing.

Hmmmmmm Mr. Thackeray was one of the more well informed "teachers of young minds" I encountered at Northern.
I don't think it is always the case, however, often a more educated person who is able to exercise a rationally formed thought process, coupled with good old common sense, can take the discussion to a higher octave and group together a "bigger" picture of a given circumstance.
This case is not a new one. Communities all over our country are losing their citizens to ""cellers."" --- and texters of ill repute.
This is not an ill repute kin to average criminals or drunks behind the wheel. This is an ill repute that takes away the bread winner of an average American family or the mother or the daughter or the son or the grandfather or the grandmother or the uncle or the aunt or the niece or the nephew or you.
We need to get a life and move on with the ordinance that is in place and learn to live with it like we have learned to live with seat belts and wouldn't want to drive without them.
Now, we need to send letters to Boeing to suggest some type parachute let down system for commercial aircraft. As an X-smokejumper I don't like to fly without a chute because it just appears dumb like driving without a seat belt. Now, that would be a more useful subject to be all in a huff about rather than "not caring" whether someone runs over a little kid while they are celling or texting.
Let's get a life and move on to something useful. (No pun intended)

Gee, talk about a "condescending and supercilious" letter to the editor! Pot, meet kettle.

Which english degreed journalist at the HDN writes the headlines for these letters? I bet they are all for the four day school week