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Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers
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6 digits? When I was in school the teachers tossed them in a cardboard box
Cardboard boxes are $2 each (go price them at the local home depot). Figure 20 teachers per school (this seems low), and 10 schools per district (this is low), and we are already at $400. Cardboard boxes will not last very long, so we are also replacing them 5 times a year: $2000/year. I expect this lockers are higher quality and will last for a few decades.
...Or they just take an empty box of bananas from the lunchroom that was going to be thrown away anyway and never replace it because it's a cardboard box ffs not a grocery bag. This is an actual example.
Yeah, schools are going to have loads of supplies delivered in boxes that could be reused.