Don't they already have those? They're called "Lockers".

I saw the video and the guy collecting the phones was ordering kids up one at a time like a damn prison guard or some shit. Like the very least you could do is be nice about it.

I have issues with this whole thing, but like you don't have to be such a fucking dick.

Perhaps I'm a bit weird, but things like this bother me in ways that nobody else seems to think about:

• The $180,000 is for the entire state. That's nothing. I don't know how many schools Kansas has, but let's say it's 100. That's $1800 per school. Come on.
• Why can't the school just ask some locals to build them some phone lockers? Just put out a school bulletin asking for some volunteers. I'm certain that in the entire state of Kansas they have plenty of companies and locals who would be willing to make the simplest of tiny, metal lockers.

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).

We should take some of the settlement money from Meta and make an endowment for this purpose.

Tin Foil Hat time Now they are all nicely snug and secure in a central location they can inject and take off anything they want to track all kids all under the guise of security.

Or just a firewall on wifi and a cell jammer?

The problem isn't the phone policy. Digital technology reduces classroom learning. The problem is that the bureaucrats that run our schools cannot fathom a lower cost solution and are poor stewards of public money. That's why they spend $18k per child per year in a low cost of living state and still pay teachers beggars salaries.