Naw. Not exclusively. They come in lots of colors now.

really loud bubbles.

We just glued the cover in place. It made cleaning them difficult but the guy that ran the company came up with a way to do it quickly in bulk. On the next contract they put provisions in on peripherals and the problem became the schools problem. They quickly determined they could do something about their students behavior.

No we did not glue the ball. Why would anyone consider that a solution?

The place I worked for had the contract for all school computers in our part of the state. After two years or so of buying huge numbers of mice because the teachers couldn’t be bothered to keep the kids from stealing or throwing the balls from the mice we started using epoxy to glue in the balls. The teachers immediately started complaining about the kids complaining about it. I was out of that part of IT when Optical mice became more common but I’m sure it was a great relief to those that were still maintaining that pile.

As someone who had to maintain school computers I will say with certainty that I don’t miss those old ball mice.

This is always a good option. I don’t know who would downvote this.

The beatings will continue until moral improves.

Nice. A return to sanity.