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.
Your kid isn’t special.
Sure he is…like the Olympics.
Idgaf he will have a way to contact me if he’s in danger.
That’s what school staff is for, helicopter parent.
They post in childfree. I doubt there’s a kid, in danger or no.
So they are a child who doesn’t want their phone taken in schooooooooool.
The same thing as when kids were in danger back in the 80’s and 90’s.
Slightly better, since presumably adults at the school have mobile phones, instead of having to use the limited land lines.
True.