My kid's school paid more than $2 million dollars for fabric phone pouches (called Yondr bags.)

The Yondr bags have a magnetic lock that only the elite school employees are able to unlock. This is supposedly to keep the kids from using their phones during school hours.

The elite school employees said "If your Yondr bag gets damaged then you will have to pay for the damages."

Now it's the last day of school and the reptilian principal sent an email to the parents saying "Tell the kids to toss the Yondr bags into the plastic bins located throughout the school."

I thought the $2 million dollars was a one-time purchase, but now that these million dollar pouches are being discarded like empty milk cartons, it makes me strongly suspect that $2 million dollars is the annual cost of using them.

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Maybe teach your chilren a little discipline, and the school would not have to resort to such matters.

They are there to get an education, not stare at their phones all day.

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Maybe teach your chilren a little discipline, and the school would not have to resort to such matters.

They are there to get an education, not stare at their phones all day.

It's not just my kids, it's all the kids at the school being punished for something a statistic said.

Statistics ruin lives.

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Rug Rat wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-

They are there to get an education, not stare at their phones all day.

They aren't there to get an education. They are there to get indoctrinated.

They don't want them to have phones because
1. They won't pay attention to the incompetent "teacher" indoctrinating them. 2. They don't want the kids to record what the "teacher" says/does in the classroom.
3. The kids might actually learn something using their phones.


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Aaron Thomas wrote to Rug Rat <=-

It's not just my kids, it's all the kids at the school being punished
for something a statistic said.

Statistics ruin lives.

It ruins a lot of stuff.

We had a teacher (luckily, I didn't have her class) back in Jr. High that used to punish the whole class for what one kid did. By the end of the semester, her class was completely unrulely because the normally non-bad kids basically thought that since they did the time, they could do the crime.


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Statistics ruin lives.

It ruins a lot of stuff.

We had a teacher (luckily, I didn't have her class) back in Jr. High
that used to punish the whole class for what one kid did. By the end of the semester, her class was completely unrulely because the normally non-bad kids basically thought that since they did the time, they could
do the crime.

Teachers do that because they want to provoke other children to bully the one who misbehaved.

Stuff like that is the reason why I wanted to become a teacher when I finished high school. Kids need adults that they can count on.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Teachers do that because they want to provoke other children to bully
the one who misbehaved.

But that only works if the rest of the class knows who did it. And that's not usually the case.

Every other teacher I had punished the problem kid for doing wrong, not the whole class for what one problem kid did.

Stuff like that is the reason why I wanted to become a teacher when I finished high school. Kids need adults that they can count on.

I thought about becoming a teacher at one point. But my dad was still living at the time and had 40+ years in teaching school. I heard all the stories about what went on and it only got worse before he retired. So I passed on that.


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I thought about becoming a teacher at one point. But my dad was still living at the time and had 40+ years in teaching school. I heard all
the stories about what went on and it only got worse before he retired. So I passed on that.

I'm glad I didn't do it. Imagine earning a master's degree (they require that in my state) in a field that you're passionate about, only to find out that you just signed a pact with the devil.

That would have sucked!

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