How to add a debounce (cooldown) to a Text Button?

Hello,

I am working on a gui based game. I want a gui button to have a cooldown after being pressed.

Here is what I tried (you can ignore most of it, I'm just concerned about the debounce).

function clicked(plr)
     debounce = true
	if debounce == true then
		debounce = false
		local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
		local edulvl = player.Education.Value
		local x = game.ReplicatedStorage.Work:InvokeServer(edulvl)
		local y = text(edulvl)
		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Status.Visible = true
		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Status.TextLabel.Text = (y.." "..x.." dollars")
		wait(5)
		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Status.Visible = false
		debounce = true
	end
end

I thought I had my debounce set up correctly, but it doesn't seem to work.

Help would be appreciated

Remove the debounce = true on line 2, and define it outside the function. You are resetting the debounce every time you click it which essentially counteracts the point of the debounce.

local debounce = true
local function clicked(plr)
	if debounce then
		debounce = false

		-- code goes here

		debounce = true
	end
end

Hope this helps! :)