See through plastic boxes to openly display students mobile phones.

deezell · 15-12-2019 01:26PM #1

So this earnest school principal has designed see through plastic cases for school kids to place their mobile phones in, attached to the front of the students' own STEEL lockers. This is apparently to prevent them bringing phones into class.
Am I missing something here? Does the open display of your €600 phone in a plastic box somehow incentivise you to not put it in your secure locker, or sneak it into class? Why not stick the €50 Granny gave you in beside it? Maybe take a pic and post it on Instagram, is that the reasoning? Free IPhones, drop into Kilcock school, (preferably during class)?
I'd really like to know.

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Read all about it here

https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/news/501891/kildare-principal-tackles-phone-use-during-class-by-creating-ingenious-boxes.html

BDI · 15-12-2019 01:29PM

Who supplies the plastic boxes? I’m sure that’ll be more interesting.

fergiesfolly · 15-12-2019 01:31PM

BDI wrote: »

Who supplies the plastic boxes? I’m sure that’ll be more interesting.

Made in China

ednwireland · 15-12-2019 01:31PM

I'm waiting for the insurance claim when someone comes in smashes them open. why cant they go on the inside of the door.

deezell · 15-12-2019 01:31PM

BDI wrote: »

Who supplies the plastic boxes? I’m sure that’ll be more interesting.

He's patented the design. It's all in the article.

Diemos · 15-12-2019 01:33PM

I remember buying my 1st phone back in the day in Phibsborough and standing waiting for the bus with this massive Eircell bag basically screaming, I've a brand new phone, rob me.

Bob Harris · 15-12-2019 01:35PM

" each box has a key which can be removed when the box is locked" genius!

I'm failing to see the USP here. Can you imagine the racket when hundreds of phones are vibrating inside plastic boxes?

15-12-2019 01:35PM

Hopefully someone kicks them all off and robs the phones so that his little money making scheme dies on its arse.

Atlantic Dawn · 15-12-2019 01:38PM

Would it not have been a better design to have them on the inside of the door?...Off to the patent office with me, lol.

Sardonicat · 15-12-2019 01:48PM

Alternatively, they could leave them at home and survive just fine like every other school kid for countless generations before. Some of us didn't even have a house phone, FFS!

Graces7 · 15-12-2019 02:24PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Alternatively, they could leave them at home and survive just fine like every other school kid for countless generations before. Some of us didn't even have a house phone, FFS!

Well said! Thank you!

Doctors room ghost · 15-12-2019 02:33PM

All you do then is open the drawer in the kitchen,take out an old phone and bring that in and put it in the plastic box while keeping your good phone on you on silent.
It’s then google away my friends and a+ Exam results all round.

It’s a makey up, bullsh1t idea.
A plastic solution to a fake plastic problem

Eggonyerface · 15-12-2019 02:35PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Alternatively, they could leave them at home and survive just fine like every other school kid for countless generations before. Some of us didn't even have a house phone, FFS!

I hate this attitude. The world has moved on. People like knowing where their children are through Google family link etc and knowing they can contact them if needs be.

Fair enough no phones in class,proper order, but kids don't come straight home from school, especially secondary school like this appears to be

chrissb8 · 15-12-2019 02:36PM

They're on the outside so the principal can see that they're there and students aren't cutting corners. In fairness, it's not a bad idea just badly executed. I'm thinking back on some of the anti-social types I went to school with and they would definitely figure out some way to get to them and sell them on.

They should just enact a zero tolerance policy to phones. See your phone in class goodbye to your phone until your parent can come in and collect it themselves. The kids will only cop on to bring an old 2nd phone in and put it in the box anyway.

Doctors room ghost · 15-12-2019 02:37PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Would it not have been a better design to have them on the inside of the door?...Off to the patent office with me, lol.

You wouldn’t see them then and realise what a genius the inventor was and how all our lives have been changed for the better.
Move the fcuk out of the way sliced pan.
Lol,what a time to be alive.
There’s families on the streets and living out of suitcases in hotels, but plastic boxes on a locker is where we are at.

dhaughton99 · 15-12-2019 02:40PM

Why not just ban having phones in the school? They do this in ours and it works. If you are caught with one, it’s €10 fine and kept by head for 3 days first offense. Parents have to agree to it at the start of the year. 700 pupils and I have never seen a pupil with one out anywhere.

15-12-2019 02:56PM

when i saw the picture originally, i thought they were boxes to be put in the front of the classrooms, so you could drop off the phone and pick it up on the way in and out. and keep an eye on it during the class so nobody could steal it.
in front of lockers? no point...

whisky_galore · 15-12-2019 03:27PM

Eggonyerface wrote: »

I hate this attitude. The world has moved on. People like knowing where their children are through Google family link etc and knowing they can contact them if needs be.

Fair enough no phones in class,proper order, but kids don't come straight home from school, especially secondary school like this appears to be

Google what now?
What's wrong with a simple phone?

Parents unable to say no cos Johnny down the road has got a brand new smartphone.

15-12-2019 03:31PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Google what now?
What's wrong with a simple phone?

Parents unable to say no cos Johnny down the road has got a brand new smartphone.

Simple phones are more of a statement these days, the wrong kind of one.

deezell · 15-12-2019 03:31PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Google what now?
What's wrong with a simple phone?

Parents unable to say no cos Johnny down the road has got a brand new smartphone.

He won't have for long if he leaves it in one of these "Rob Me Please" boxes.

donspeekinglesh · 15-12-2019 03:52PM

deezell wrote: »

He's patented the design. It's all in the article.

The idea came to him a few months ago, and it's patented already? I'm not convinced. I'm also not convinced it's original enough to earn patent protection.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 15-12-2019 03:58PM

Mr Hegarty designed the transport acrylic boxes...

I assume they mean ‘transparent’, not ‘transport’?

893bet · 15-12-2019 04:11PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

You wouldn’t see them then and realise what a genius the inventor was and how all our lives have been changed for the better.
Move the fcuk out of the way sliced pan.
Lol,what a time to be alive.
There’s families on the streets and living out of suitcases in hotels, but plastic boxes on a locker is where we are at.

Does every thread have to be about the “homeless”.

Jesus ****ing Christ.

80 percent of the “homeless” are not homeless, just looking to force the councils hands.

They can all **** off at this point.

Sardonicat · 15-12-2019 04:23PM

Eggonyerface wrote: »

I hate this attitude. The world has moved on. People like knowing where their children are through Google family link etc and knowing they can contact them if needs be.

Fair enough no phones in class,proper order, but kids don't come straight home from school, especially secondary school like this appears to be

They know where they are: school.

whisky_galore · 15-12-2019 04:36PM

893bet wrote: »

Does every thread have to be about the “homeless”.

Jesus ****ing Christ.

80 percent of the “homeless” are not homeless, just looking to force the councils hands.

They can all **** off at this point.

80%.
Where did you get that statistic?

15-12-2019 04:41PM

Seems pretty pointless. Where I am is zero tolerance. You get it back at the end of the year even if you get caught with it the first week.

Quantum Erasure · 15-12-2019 04:48PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Would it not have been a better design to have them on the inside of the door?...Off to the patent office with me, lol.

i think the point is to have them visible, so the principal can see who hasn't left their phone, could be easy for roll call as well. no phone left on display? you're marked absent for the day...

893bet · 15-12-2019 04:49PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

80%.
Where did you get that statistic?

Pulled from my arse the same way all the “homeless” stats are.

15-12-2019 04:57PM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

i think the point is to have them visible, so the principal can see who hasn't left their phone, could be easy for roll call as well. no phone left on display? you're marked absent for the day...

Don’t own phone? Don’t exist in school.

SuperS54 · 15-12-2019 05:00PM

BDI wrote: »

Who supplies the plastic boxes? I’m sure that’ll be more interesting.

He had them made in China apparently.

I'm struggling to understand the concept here and the article doesn't shed any light. What is the purpose of putting the phone in a locked box which is attached to the door of a lockable box? Why not lock the phone in the lockable metal box rather than the lockable plastic box?

15-12-2019 05:04PM

SuperS54 wrote: »

He had them made in China apparently.

I'm struggling to understand the concept here and the article doesn't shed any light. What is the purpose of putting the phone in a locked box which is attached to the door of a lockable box? Why not lock the phone in the lockable metal box rather than the lockable plastic box?

Because he doesn’t care about the security of the phones, his main concern is making money from his patent and someone has already invented the locker.

See through plastic boxes to openly display students mobile phones.

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