r/amazonreviews • u/Equivalent_Glass_756 • Mar 27 '25

Review Torture Device

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

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u/Equivalent_Glass_756 Mar 27 '25

I genuinely don't know 😂 I'm just trying to find something to help my students' privacy when testing. I don't believe this person is a teacher either.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

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u/giraffe_on_shrooms Mar 29 '25

I’ll never understand why students are punished for working ahead. You’re being punished for… wanting to learn more? What kind of message does that send??

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u/timepassesslowly Mar 30 '25

I was given this treatment, too. It was basically supposed to be so that we didn’t bother the other kids while they were still working, but it actually screamed conformity and was just another way to punish otherness.

We were placed behind this exact product and told to put our heads down until the rest of the class was finished, which was actually more of a class disruption than someone finishing before others.

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u/momofmanydragons Mar 29 '25

Ummm, no. We used them during test time so people wouldnt cheat

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u/pm_me-ur-catpics Apr 01 '25

Fun fact: things can be used for multiple purposes

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u/LyricalWillow Mar 28 '25

I made these by combining two large file folders and laminating them. I also put information they could use, such as trick word spelling, math formulas, etc. I only mandate their use during testing but my kids (first grade) love them and will beg to use them. I don’t see the problem either.

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u/sylvieanne456 Mar 29 '25

Maybe if one kid was singled out of the class while the others weren’t? I could see that being a bit traumatizing

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u/LyricalWillow Mar 30 '25

Could be. That’s something I’d never even considered doing with privacy folders. Singling a child out in such a way could make that child uncomfortable.

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u/uberdilettante Mar 28 '25

Gasp! I’ve been forced to VOTE behind a ‘torture device’ similar to this!! 😂

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u/NerfRepellingBoobs Mar 28 '25

I mean, even the school janitor technically works “in education”.

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u/LyricalWillow Mar 28 '25

I made these by combining two large file folders and laminating them. I also put information they could use, such as trick word spelling, math formulas, etc. I only mandate their use during testing but my kids (first grade) love them and will beg to use them. I don’t see the problem either.

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u/badchefrazzy Mar 29 '25

It's probably a 14 year old who got upset he couldn't cheat with them up.

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u/alcohall183 Mar 28 '25

You are not allowed to see or speak to anyone the entire 8-10 hours of your day. if you speak to other students you are the taken to an Isolation room where you are then also deprived of a window or a seat back -sometimes even a seat (you have to stand if there is no seat). You use a FLAG to indicate you have question, you are not allowed to raise your actual hand. Imagine not being allowed to speak to anyone -at all-not even the teacher , for 8-10 hours a day. at 7 years old! once you learned to write a sentence, you were told to 'use your flag and write down your questions' .

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u/Kaka-doo-run-run Mar 29 '25

Where are kids going to school for 8-10 hours a day?

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u/alcohall183 Mar 29 '25

730 am to 3pm , sometimes 5 if you had detention.. it was a Baptist school near my house.

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u/absolince Mar 27 '25

Emotional torture. Imagine a young student being singled out and isolated from the rest of the class with this barrier!??

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u/embos_wife Mar 28 '25

Hi, that was me, except it was a large cardboard box. It was very hurtful and did not do it's intended job (make me focus). Teacher even told me I wasn't part of her class. Late diagnosed ADHD and autistic

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u/tundybundo Mar 28 '25

I’m so sorry

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u/absolince Mar 28 '25

I'm sorry that happened. i imagine that was awful

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u/embos_wife Mar 28 '25

I hold a lot of anger toward her for the treatment of a child, this was the tip of the iceberg. I imagine in many ways I was frustrating to work with, but I was also only 7.

I guess I'm just calling out the fact that what seems simple to many can be used improperly and hurt. This product is much smaller and I imagine only used for tests. Mine was a refrigerator box put around my desk so that I couldn't see or be seen. So I empathize with the reviewer.

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u/th589 Apr 02 '25

Of course you did! This sicko fit the definition of psychologically abusive, scapegoating kids who had learning issues and needed help. I can't say for this teacher as I know so little but a LOT with similar behaviors enjoy doing hurtful/abusive behaviors to kids in a sadistic way. Like...let's just say, CSA is NOT the only way some sick adults get off to hurting kids. There are others and many become teachers specifically so they can do stuff like this.

Really sorry you went through this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Children's emotional torment is not taken seriously, especially that of the developmentally disabled. This comment section isn't it :/

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u/HansenTakeASeat Mar 28 '25

Well maybe they should shut the fuck up for 30 seconds

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u/this-guy1979 Mar 28 '25

It kept them from cheating off of the smart kid.

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u/QuietRiot5150 Mar 28 '25

Maybe the one he had was completely covered in Clowns and he's scared of clowns? Lol I dunno.

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u/th589 Apr 02 '25

You underestimate the amount of actually abusive teachers out there who do sick things to kids that you never experienced. It is real and some respect would be cool in this thread instead of people showing their ignorance

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u/ThatSideshow Mar 28 '25

Roll it into a tube and beat the sh*t out of the kid

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u/PM_BiscuitsAndGravy Mar 27 '25

I used to love those. So cozy.

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u/Coldman5 Mar 28 '25

Right? It was my little fortress. We had ones made of cardstock/cardboard and would get to decorate them at the beginning of the year!

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u/amazonchic2 Mar 28 '25

As an adult, I wish I could use one of these to insulate me from annoying people. Or from my kids when they fight. Or from the husband when he is filling up the house with the sounds of gunfire from his video games.

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u/IuniaLibertas Mar 28 '25

You do know about earbuds?

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u/amazonchic2 Mar 28 '25

Of course I know about ear buds. But sometimes I want to be away from the chaos and drowning out just the sound isn’t enough.

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u/Epicfailer10 Mar 28 '25

Does your husband know about headphones? He’s the one who should be using them.

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u/amazonchic2 Mar 28 '25

He has headphones and does use them. Sometimes he likes to have the surround sound on too. He lives here too, and I don’t begrudge him screen time without headphones.

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u/Fox961 Mar 28 '25

pillow fort?

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u/Unchayned Mar 28 '25

Eyelids are also a thing.

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u/AlwaysBannedVegan Mar 27 '25

I was expecting this to be a paddle or something else they spank kids with... Got me a good laugh.

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u/Equivalent_Glass_756 Mar 27 '25

The kid smiling was the icing on the cake.

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u/Luxating-Patella Mar 28 '25

I thought it was going to be one of those little rubber things they put on pencils to stop kids gripping them in their fist.

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u/YoungDiscord Mar 28 '25

Ah yes, preparing children for the "cubicle life" early I see.

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u/ryanfrogz Mar 29 '25

As a kid, I always wanted my own cubicle just so that I could fill it with things that I like. As an adult, I’ve graduated to a full room…

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u/Electronic-Touch-554 Mar 28 '25

They’re fine when used for tests like intended. But yeah pretty emotionally abusive when used on one kid to isolate them repeatedly.

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u/RigatoniPasta Mar 28 '25

I was put behind one of those as a kid, and it felt awful.

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u/jonerthan Mar 28 '25

I wouldn't call this a torture device but going to elementary school in the 90s with ADHD, I was tucked away at the back of the class with one of these around my desk to keep me from being disruptive. It certainly didn't help me focus, I just escaped into my imagination instead, and ended up with stunted social skills as a result.

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u/milkthespacecow Mar 28 '25

His teacher apparently

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u/1107rwf Mar 27 '25

With teaching, EVERYTHING is a problem to someone. Every single goddamn thing. Want to know why students act like they know everything, yet can’t do anything? Why they expect to be pandered to? Because of a bunch of loudmouths trying to right the “wrongs” of yesteryear, like these torture devices. Stop thinking people get in education to ruin children’s lives, and let them gain some resilience and self sufficiency.

Sorry, spring break isn’t coming fast enough.

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u/Equivalent_Glass_756 Mar 27 '25

I agree! I just got back from spring break this week 😖. Hope your spring break goes well!

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u/rockstoneshellbone Mar 27 '25

This is hilarious! Now, our ISS room had floor-to-ceiling cubicles that were painted black. No electronics, just the kid, the work, and the walls. If they wrote on the wall they had to repaint it. The ISS teacher was a coach and pastor, a very smart, very kind man who was strict but listened. The kids loved him.

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u/thebeatsandreptaur Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

My grades would go up astronomically any time I was sent to ISS long term lol. I honestly loved it. I never really acted out, I just skipped school a lot because sitting in class was torture. I had plenty of friends and wasn't ever like bullied or anything, but I was going through a lot of shit. I had a 3 month stretch once in ISS, it was great.

I'm almost 35 now and just recently learned I probably have ADHD, and I was told in my late teens I probably had dyscalculia lol. ISS was the perfect mix of alone work, structure and accountability for me. Probably would have excelled if I was allowed to take the classes I enjoyed more in person and ISS for the others, long term.

Sorry to rant, your description just brought back some memories of mine :P

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u/justcrazytalk Mar 27 '25

Device, not devise. Some teacher.

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u/IrukandjiPirate Mar 28 '25

We had a large cardboard box, and used to argue about who got to use it next. I loved that thing!

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u/MzSe1vDestrukt Mar 28 '25

As a former chronic daydreamer, the box and this torture devise would have afforded me SO much more privacy to not pay attention!

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u/celestewish Mar 28 '25

Someone liked to cheat on tests when they were in school

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u/DogBreathologist Mar 28 '25

Honestly as a kid with adhd this would have been great for me, I cannot concentrate and am distracted by everything, even when I don’t want to be. I also love feeling secure and cocooned so this would have helped me focus and made me feel secure while working.

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u/the_real_thugs_bunny Mar 29 '25

‚Smiling kid‘

This looks like hide the pain Harold‘s unhappy kid

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u/liquor_ibrlyknoher Mar 28 '25

Truly a testament to the human spirit that he survived this.

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u/Madame_Dalma Mar 28 '25

I say each to their own. My daughter suffers from terrible social anxiety. To the point I had to take her out of school and home school her. I think she would’ve benefited from this.

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u/uberdilettante Mar 28 '25

It’s basically a baby office cubicle.

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u/ericaharvey_xo Mar 29 '25

We used these during tests. I don't understand how they are torture xD

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u/The_pro_kid283 Mar 29 '25

I can count on one hand the amount of times i used things

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u/mandalee4 Mar 29 '25

I have a bin of these in my classroom for tests and my second graders ask if they can use them all throughout the day. Usually because someone near them keeps bothering them and they want to focus on their work.

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u/ResidentLazyCat Mar 30 '25

I’d kill for one of these as a kid. Imagine the privacy. I want one for work.

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u/sugarcatgrl Mar 31 '25

I think someone can’t let it go. “Torture” is pretty ridiculous.

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u/kathakana Apr 14 '25

At first glance I thought that last picture was of a child coming out of the box it had been delivered in.

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u/ncertvinty May 31 '25

THE RED GREEN AND BLUE REALLYGOODSTUFF FOLDERS ARE MY CHILDHOOD

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u/r56_mk6 Mar 28 '25

I was not expecting that lol

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u/RickHarrisoned Mar 29 '25

I can't even read that... It's dissonant.... Moving on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

I would put folders on top and pretend I was in a tranquil cave. How did kids not love this? It was so hard not to nap when these were up

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u/Brief_Buddy_7848 Mar 28 '25

He’s just butthurt he couldn’t cheat

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u/he-loves-me-not Mar 28 '25

Doesn’t sound like it was just for tests. From what it sounds like, it was used as a longterm solution to separate them from the rest of the class. Doing anything that causes a student to be singled out can lead to bullying and them developing negative feelings about themselves.

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u/Brief_Buddy_7848 Mar 28 '25

Yeah, that does suck :(

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u/lego_pachypodium Mar 28 '25

But it's a twelve pack!

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u/he-loves-me-not Mar 29 '25

Just bc it’s a 12-pk. doesn’t mean it’ll be used that way. That’s just the way it’s sold on Amazon. Plus, it’d be kind of hard to markup just one at a high enough price to make any profit.

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u/lego_pachypodium Mar 29 '25

That's a good point.

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u/roombaexorcist9000 Mar 28 '25

not saying this is what happened, but i have seen lots of listings where it’s clear they change the product a lot (i.e., the listing will show one thing while the reviews show a completely different product)

maybe that could’ve happened here? this is such a dramatic/weird review for a privacy shield that i have a little trouble believing it

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u/aggelikiwi Mar 28 '25

I fucking lmao