The cost per secondary school pupil isn’t 9 euro (which would be insanely good value), it’s more like 15 or 16 euro, but that is an incredibly reasonable price for a magnetised, remote-lock/unlock phone pouch.
Is this one of those times where the news reports on something you actually understand so you realise how completely flimsy most coverage is? Oh god
Elbon on
Dumb dum dum de dum, stupid outrage over stupid nothing.
SeanB2003 on
Complaining about the level of spend on this is silly. A quick Google will show that this is around the going rate for this service in other education systems.
Alternatives being proposed, “put them in a ziplock bag”, or “leave them in lockers” have obvious problems in wasting teacher time administrating them or well overestimate the security of school lockers. We were always told not to leave anything valuable in them, they’re not designed to be super secure.
There are valid complaints as to why the policy is being proposed at all, but that’s separate from the cost of implementing it. If you feel it’s worth doing then there’s a price for doing it properly.
Available-Lemon9075 on
Feels strange to say but I support the government on this oneÂ
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Gav Reilly is fine, even good most of the time but then he comes out with some absolute gobshitery [like this](https://x.com/gavreilly/status/1841217898146136103).
The cost per secondary school pupil isn’t 9 euro (which would be insanely good value), it’s more like 15 or 16 euro, but that is an incredibly reasonable price for a magnetised, remote-lock/unlock phone pouch.
Is this one of those times where the news reports on something you actually understand so you realise how completely flimsy most coverage is? Oh god
Dumb dum dum de dum, stupid outrage over stupid nothing.
Complaining about the level of spend on this is silly. A quick Google will show that this is around the going rate for this service in other education systems.
Alternatives being proposed, “put them in a ziplock bag”, or “leave them in lockers” have obvious problems in wasting teacher time administrating them or well overestimate the security of school lockers. We were always told not to leave anything valuable in them, they’re not designed to be super secure.
There are valid complaints as to why the policy is being proposed at all, but that’s separate from the cost of implementing it. If you feel it’s worth doing then there’s a price for doing it properly.
Feels strange to say but I support the government on this oneÂ