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Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers (www.gadgetreview.com)
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At least one Kansas district is projecting $150,000 to $180,000 just to equip secondary students with individual phone lockers, according to the Wichita Eagle. The state provided zero dedicated funding. Every dollar comes from local budgets.

Districts choosing fabric locking pouches — think Yondr, the magnetic-lock system concert venues use to keep audiences present — face an estimated $30 per unit. Statewide, the Kansas Division of the Budget put that figure at roughly $13.4 million if every student received one, according to the Lawrence KS Times. Lockers require a steeper upfront investment. Neither option came with a state check attached.

Legislators passed the policy. The price tag was someone else’s problem.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

I mean I've seen a lot more money wasted on much dumber shit.

Kids aren't going to learn if they've got handheld social media internet gaming consoles with them in school. I wouldn't have. They're not going to willingly put them away for hours every day. I wouldn't have. So.....lock the fuckers up. These kids need to be educated so I'm not being taken care of by drooling Idiocracy background actors when I'm in end-of-life care. There's way too much stupid going around already.

To be clear, 180k is too much. I'm just saying I agree with locking the goddamn things up.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (16 children)

"If you take your phone out you get detention." I don't see why this doesn't work anymore. Do parents have no control over their kids anymore? You get detention twice, 3rd time suspended, suspended twice 3rd time expelled. If I got suspended from school for taking my phone out my parents would have simply taken away the phone.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Do parents have no control over their kids?"

Almost never had. Control is an illusion.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Telling them they’re being controlled encourages innovations…so it’s kind of a fucked ouroboros

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