Technology

Followed some links and did some googling. The school district in question is USD-261 in Haysville, Kansas. The high school should have about 1800 students, so they would need 67 of these cell phone lockers. The price for 6+ is $1510, but let's knock another $110 off since they're buying 11 times that many, so $1400. That's $93,800, for just the high school, and that's before we talk about where the hell you're going to put 67 of those things, and who you're going to pay to install them and do any necessary renovations to accommodate them.

The 180k price tag seems to be for the outfitting of the school district and not just one school.

They say that Kansas City spent 150k and that's presumably one of the largest in the state.

It’s also 180K for a 15-20 year refresh cycle. These are commercial units that are used in harsh environments… not a cabinet you buy once and it sits in your bedroom.

Add in wiring plus the install costs and $180K seems like a good deal

Bring on the dumb phones, baby. Love it.

That requires an honesty system and kids aren’t honest

Worked so well, let's avoid looking at the states of the world... Just install parental control and look the phone during their school time like a fucking responsible parent...

"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.

I remember a math teacher I had in high school. There was this one girl at the front of the class that would not get off her RAZR flip phone and it was buzzing constantly while she was texting people.

He warned her that if she didn't put it away, he'd toss it out the window, and she could find it after school let out. She flipped him off and started texting again.

He took it and tossed it out the open window (on the first floor), into the grass. Then 20 minutes later it started raining. 😂

Suddenly all the kids have old flip phones to deposit into the Phone locker.

What about kids who can't afford a phone?

No phone = Nothing to deposit

And what about kids who get a second phone to put in the locker so they can keep their main phone?

Get rekt. Rules for the poor.

Schools are scared to death of kids recording their staff being stupid, and each other. Legal liability/parental outrage. They block both phones and smart watches. If it were just a usage problem, they could have done what we always do and only take things away when they're an issue.

Since the advent of phones, this hasn't been a real problem.

My son's school collects them at the classroom door if they have them out, or ignores it if they're in their bag as long as they don't make noise. - free

Kansas, who is already horrible at maintaining educational budgets to a self-destructive degree wants to spend 150k of (likely unwilling) taxpayer money to provide fancy lockers for phones that could be solved by leave it in your bag and off, if we find it on or it makes noise, you get detention.

It's a stupid waste or resources and time.

if 0 is the Byrds Turn Turn Turn and 10 is RaTM bulls on parade, maybe go 6 or 7

it’s a question of how you choose to enforce the policy. locking up phones as each student enters the building guarantees close to 100% compliance and the rest of the day is undisturbed.

if they just tell students phones have to stay in lockers then teachers will constantly have to be on the lookout for phones and will never get close to 100% compliance.