Teacher layoffs affecting your children's grades? Just chain them up and make them study harder.

[billyoc]

Ball and chain to force children to study

Concerned mums and dads set the desired study time on the Study Ball and attach it to their child's ankle.

A red digital display counts down the "Study Time Left" and the device beeps and unlocks when the time expires.

The prison-style device weighs 9.5 kg (21 pounds), making it difficult to move while wearing it.

It cannot be locked for more than four hours and comes with a safety key that allows the manacle to be opened at anytime.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5343111/Ball-and-chain-to-force-children-to-study.html

[Massacure]

1. Just take a nap with it.

Sleep improves memory. :evilgrin:

[Mythsaje]

2. Uh... Wha? n/t

[Jennicut]

3. How about just actually be parents and help them study?

Geez, what will they think of next? I help my 4 year old learn her letters. Its called good parenting.

[billyoc]

4. Stop Teasing Your Brother Pepper Spray(tm)

[Jennicut]

5. Now I might actually consider the use of that one.

My girls are always fighting over their toys. Maybe I can just use it as a threat. ;)

[2Nurselady]

6. Make Kids Our Priority

There is so much lip service paid to our country's future and the futures of our children, but when it comes down to it, people do not seem to want to take the steps necessary to bring that to fruition. We need more teachers, smaller class sizes, better materials, and better schools, overall - AND, we need to pay for these things. We need to start voting for everything and anything that will bring improvements for our children and, at the same time, for the country in general.

[MadHound]

7. And it's this sort of attitude that makes life for teachers so much harder

Pushing the idea that learning is a drag, a prison sentence, is certainly not sending the right message to kids.

Frankly I think that this is bordering on abuse, and see a future of criminal and civil cases involving this device.