Prison Limits

Really?

The Study Ball is absurd. It’s basically a 20 lb prison style ball and chain to keep a kid from wandering about during homework (or presumably) any time. It comes with a programmable clock (you can punch in anywhere from five minutes to four hours, and the shackle won’t come off until then (supposedly). I’m as distractable as the next student, but come on. Sure there’s facebook, and cell phones, and a host of other average everyday distractions, but this is just unnecessary. Besides, facebook and cell phones are probably staring you straight in the face from the desk you’re being forced to sit at anyway.

Lets be realistic, close the door, set limits, work in the kitchen, there’s a hundred other ways you can force a kid to study without chaining them up. Have a discussion. How about threatening to take that distracting facebook away. Maybe you’re lucky, the kid’s bored cause they’re not being challenged enough. Maybe the Study Ball is a statement to teachers everywhere, when something like this shows up on the market maybe it’s time to reexamine your own styles and efforts in the classroom. Learning can, and is, boring sometimes, does it have to be? Lets just say, on a positive note, as a Halloween or April Fools joke, this baby takes the cake.