Fidget Spinners

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Are these wreaking havoc in your schools yet??? Here in MA they are EVERYWHERE and getting banned from schools left and right.

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boo- i liked having it at my fingertips. Also wanted to note that i only get the checkmarks that mean - "i posted in here" on my home computer, not my work computer. weird, right?

Clean your work cache?:whistling:

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

My son is complaining that students that use them are distracting to him. They don't spin them out of sight, most hold them up off their desk to draw attention.

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They're all over our middle schools and getting banned. Which is frustrating because I was about to buy my 7th grader one because of his hyperactivity. No fidget cube for him now.

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Specializes in School nursing.
My son is complaining that students that use them are distracting to him. They don't spin them out of sight, most hold them up off their desk to draw attention.

That was the issue at my school as well and lead to them being banned unless a student has been given one/had one approved by a staff member/has permission through their IEP/504.

Students were spinning them in full site and distracting others, as well as it was not having a positive effect on any student's ability to complete work and focus. A few student that do use them properly use them out of site, usually spinning them on their lap under the desk while pen in hand and focusing on the teacher.

We still have students that bring them and try to use them, especially during art class and the art classroom is right outside my office. I've asked several students to put them away or they are mine until the end of the day. The whirling noise of the ones that really being marketed has gotten ingrained into my brain. (Our local Five Below is sold out of them; they are that popular now.)

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Specializes in NCSN.

I have a little section in our schools weekly newsletter and last week I wrote about fidget spinners. My principal didn't want to put it in because I put in the sentence "For students without any diagnosed impairments, the fidget spinners and boxes are more likely to be a distraction for themselves and other students and should remain at home. "

She told me it sounded too confrontational :rolleyes:

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.
I have a little section in our schools weekly newsletter and last week I wrote about fidget spinners. My principal didn't want to put it in because I put in the sentence "For students without any diagnosed impairments, the fidget spinners and boxes are more likely to be a distraction for themselves and other students and should remain at home. "

She told me it sounded too confrontational :rolleyes:

Snowflakes must be kept in dark places, far from that light called the truth.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

My biggest disappointment with these gadgets is that I didn't think of the idea and marketing opportunity. I'd be island shopping for my retirement today.

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.
My biggest disappointment with these gadgets is that I didn't think of the idea and marketing opportunity. I'd be island shopping for my retirement today.

My husband claims to have come up with the idea for mail order Depends long before there was such a thing. If only...

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My biggest disappointment with these gadgets is that I didn't think of the idea and marketing opportunity. I'd be island shopping for my retirement today.

I just heard last night that the GoFundMe for fidget cubes had a goal of $15,000 dollars but brought in $6.5 million.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

so i broke down and bought one for my kid - it was 3 bucks at the Shop rite. but i told her she can't bring it to school. I played with the thing for a few minutes and tossed in onto the sofa and then picked it up later on and found one of my long hairs wound tightly around it.

Lets start a pool:

How long til' one of us has to us to untangle / unwind / cut one of these babies out of a kids hair?

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I just had a student with a small bump on her head from one . It spun right out of her friend's hand........

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All over here. We have not banned them yet but it may happen before the end of the year. My daughter has one and loves it. She is not diagnosed ADHD but never stops moving so this helps her when she's concentrating.

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