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Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers
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Perhaps I'm a bit weird, but things like this bother me in ways that nobody else seems to think about:
They talk about these complicated technical solutions when all that's necessary is a very thin, very small traditional locker. Make the kids bring their own lock! That's what we did with lockers when I was in high school in the 90s.
Those old school steel lockers were certified for fire resistance, BTW. Not because they went through some special certification process, but because they were steel and painted with school-certified paint (which every school district already has plenty of).
Hey, Kansan here. Every single high school in Kansas has welding as an elective. They literally could have make those in house and used them as a teaching point.
More importantly, why do the need a dedicated phone jail when you can just have numbered pigeon holes in the office?
Kansas has at least 400 high schools, so $450 per school. That sounds reasonable to me to install some new lockers.
No, that was for one particular school district. Per the article,
It's $180k just one school district. Not specified if the number of schools/students in this district is above or below the average, but a quick search tells there are 332 schools districts in Kansas.
Where are you getting those numbers from? Certainly not from the article.