Has Your Child Had Anything Stolen At School?

[tvguy]

Your kids, your rules--why is it hard to accept that other people are different? I don't have any trouble "accepting a 14 year old" without a cell phone--it is not how I chose to handle it with my kids, but I can accept that you handle it that way with yours

Sort of like second hand smoke I guess is the best way to describe it. Someone else's kid having one impacted my life.
Not my money or my kid, but when cell phones were being stolen and it prompted locker searches at school it impacted my kids. Their lockers and backpacks were searched too. And it was their classes that were disrupted when some kids phone rang in class. And when the polcy changed, and they banned them on campus, it was another form to sign, acknowledging if my kid was caught on campus with one, I would have to come to the office to retrieve it. And then there were the parents who objected to the policy calling asking for my support to lift the ban.

 

[tvguy]

Did you make the rule for when a kid gets a cell phone? For us it's middle school, other families its younger. Not sure why you care what other parents do.

No, I did not make the rule. See my response to NHdisneylover

Basically, you have a right to do whatever you want, up until it impacts someone else's rights.

 

[shortbun]

Sorry but the moment you pick up something that isn't yours and not turn it in especially when you have an idea of who it may,belong to,, you are stealin it. doesn't matter what it is token to school or how expensive it may ve, some kids are going to take what they want. Everything from pens to lunch bags to more expensive items. so shoukd kids go to school with nothing but potato sacks for clothes and chalk and rock lol since you seem to think it is just expensive stuff gets taken? And sorry but dd and myself dont live on our knees afraid to go out with.decent stuff,lol. People will even steal a Mickey atenna topper or teenagers who want to go for a joy ride will even take the crappiest looking car if they can start it up.

Your daughter carelessly left an expensive piece of electronics on the seat of a school bus. The loss was as much HER responsibility as the person who took it. Maybe her contribution was bigger-she's obviously not appreciative of her 'decent stuff', lol. I certainly hope you didn't replace it. She needs to learn the consequences of her actions-especially when dealing with expensive, desireable electronics. Most children know to hang on to their belongings. Those who are careless, lose their things.

 

[luvmy3]

Sort of like second hand smoke I guess is the best way to describe it. Someone else's kid having one impacted my life.
Not my money or my kid, but when cell phones were being stolen and it prompted locker searches at school it impacted my kids. Their lockers and backpacks were searched too. And it was their classes that were disrupted when some kids phone rang in class. And when the polcy changed, and they banned them on campus, it was another form to sign, acknowledging if my kid was caught on campus with one, I would have to come to the office to retrieve it. And then there were the parents who objected to the policy calling asking for my support to lift the ban.

What does that have to do with the age a kid gets a cell phone. You are the one who made it a point to tell everyone that your kid didn't get a phone until they were 16.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Sort of like second hand smoke I guess is the best way to describe it. Someone else's kid having one impacted my life.
Not my money or my kid, but when cell phones were being stolen and it prompted locker searches at school it impacted my kids. Their lockers and backpacks were searched too. And it was their classes that were disrupted when some kids phone rang in class. And when the polcy changed, and they banned them on campus, it was another form to sign, acknowledging if my kid was caught on campus with one, I would have to come to the office to retrieve it. And then there were the parents who objected to the policy calling asking for my support to lift the ban.

At my dd's HS they use their personal cells in CLASS to help with their schoolwork when the teacher allows it. Basically it is their personal computer.

They are allowed to use their cells in class as dictated by the individual teacher rules, during pass time, at lunch, etc.

I had to GET my dd a smartphone to help her keep up with school.

 

[marcyinPA]

Personally, no. But I know that my DS17's large, urban HS has problems with theft all.the.time. He knows that he needs to hide his valuables (phone/iPod/graphing calculator) and lock them in his instrument locker in the bandroom when he is in gym class. (seniors don't get lockers at his school-not enough of them to go around). Most kids know that. If you leave your backpack in the gym locker room, your stuff will get stolen. It's how it is at his school.

 

[hereyago]

Your daughter carelessly left an expensive piece of electronics on the seat of a school bus. The loss was as much HER responsibility as the person who took it. Maybe her contribution was bigger-she's obviously not appreciative of her 'decent stuff', lol. I certainly hope you didn't replace it. She needs to learn the consequences of her actions-especially when dealing with expensive, desireable electronics. Most children know to hang on to their belongings. Those who are careless, lose their things.

. First of all she didnt just sit it down on seat. It was in a jacket pocket and slippef.out it would have been in her pants pocket but this day she wore sweatpants for gym. Yes it will be replaced. Considering that she is 14 and has had a few different phone upgrades past few years snd hasn't danaged or lost one speaks volumes. It would be one thing she was constantly losing stuff she would have 2cans and a string for a phone. She also.has a iPod still has that. Once again, it doesn't matter how much something is, people not just kids have sticky.fingers. Does that mean it is ok for themto take stuff?do you not have anything out in the open even a yard decoration.that someone could lift? Let's see who should be taught more of a lesson dd who has taken care of things,or the sticky fingered no value or morals kid who.took.it.instead of turning.it in, then.when they couldn't access the pass code and snash it


If anything, this event.showed that dd did what she could too get it back. Say if she was truly careless,the look on her face when it was found would havee been lesson enough.
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[Social Worker Sue]

Your daughter carelessly left an expensive piece of electronics on the seat of a school bus. The loss was as much HER responsibility as the person who took it. Maybe her contribution was bigger-she's obviously not appreciative of her 'decent stuff', lol. I certainly hope you didn't replace it. She needs to learn the consequences of her actions-especially when dealing with expensive, desireable electronics. Most children know to hang on to their belongings. Those who are careless, lose their things.

Sometimes people aren't perfect like you. Sometimes they leave important things behind on a bus, a desk, a counter, etc. It happens.

I am sure you NEVER lost anything. But one day, if you happen to NOT be perfect for one second of your life, perhaps you will lose something.

I hope the thief that steals your lost item proceeds to destroys it and throws it into a ditch. And then we will see if your "LOL-You deserve to get your items stolen" attitude changes

 

[Mandychelle79]

My kids have not, I as a teen though did.

Once it was my gym bag with all my clothes for the weekend in it and some money. Stolen between 7th and 9th period and the girl who was mad that she couldnt stay at my house that weekend ( I was going to another friends house) happened to have study hall 8th period. I confronted her about it, her dad screamed at me on the phone for blaming her. Mom brought me more clothes and money so the weekend wasnt a wash out. Monday at school she told me she didnt take it but she knew who did. I told her I didnt care who took it, if the bag wasnt back in my locker by the end of the day I was kicking her butt. Bag was back at end of day.

Another time a friend asked if she could borrow my shoes for gym class. I of course loaned them to her. When it came time for me to have gym my shoes were missing. I seen her wearing them and told my mom about it. She reminded me that she had told me to get rid of the shoes the prior year due to my stinky feet and told me if she kept them she needed them more then I did.

 

[kimblebee]

Sometimes people aren't perfect like you. Sometimes they leave important things behind on a bus, a desk, a counter, etc. It happens.

I am sure you NEVER lost anything. But one day, if you happen to NOT be perfect for one second of your life, perhaps you will lose something.

I hope the thief that steals your lost item proceeds to destroys it and throws it into a ditch. And then we will see if your "LOL-You deserve to get your items stolen" attitude changes

Yikes!

 

[dogluva]

No, I did not make the rule. See my response to NHdisneylover

Basically, you have a right to do whatever you want, up until it impacts someone else's rights.

How is having a cell phone at 14 impacting your life? Licker searches can happen when the kids are 16 too. Am I missing something?

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Lets see.... over the years we have had a number of things to get stolen. It started with a Sim card from my daughters cell phone. She was working in the office at school and she had to run to a class room, leaving her purse in the office. When she returned she saw a girl playing with her phone, she slipped it into her purse real quick. After school she went to turn it on, and of course the Sim was missing. I reported it to our cell carrier and she had already downloaded over $20. in music.

The next day the principle called the girl to the office and asked for her phone, and all of Laurens info was there. Nothing ever happened to the girl. She has since graduated and through our her high school days she was caught time and time again steeling from people.

We had a rough year when Lindsey was in the 8th grade. Some things came up missing from our cheer room. It was mainly money, gym clothes, shoes and things like that but the strangest one was tampons! Who in the world would take a BOX of tampons? They couldnt track it because the room was accessible by to many people. My daughter had a ring that belonged to her late grandmother that was stolen from the gym too. That time they knew who did it but didnt do anything about it.

Money comes up missing all of the time, books, phones and just anything that you can think of. Even my sons jacket was stolen from his school the very first week he got it.

The teachers have a hard time too. Michael's teacher had her iphone stolen right off of her desk WHILE she was teaching. They found it on a student.

I know of at least two times this year a student has reported his or her iphone stolen and they have set off the alarm on it and found it during school. I dont know if it is "lookout" or what, but if you have an iPhone it's a great idea to add an app like that. I just bought iPhones for my family yesterday and that's the first thing we did.

 

[runsandjumps]

My son said someone stole his new Eco lunchbox. I looked in lost and found and didn't find it. I once left my graphing calculator on the bus and the driver found it thank goodness.

It's not that people don't care about their things, it's just we are all rushing everywhere. I have left the grocery store and forgotten a bag. Does this make me deserving of having my stuff stolen? We have forgotten a few things and they are almost always gone. I just hope whoever took it needed it more than us.

Which reminds me of people who are waiting to take my parking spot and then have the nerve to honk while I buckle my children in their carseats. It's all the rushing that makes people forgetful. .

Some people don't have enough empathy to realize they are hurting others. Unfortunately that is something we are all becoming desensitized to. The plights and feelings of others are inconsequential to people.

A good movie that relates to the "more" mentality is Zeitgeist addendum.

 

[Poohforyou]

Things left laying around on the bus or at school are not 'stolen', they are lost. Do not take something to school you can not afford to lose. It's simple really. Expensive, material possessions are just blinking lights saying 'steal me.' IMHO

Actually my DD13 needs to bring her iPhone to school to use as a graphing calculator as well as getting internet access for other classes. I don't know about where everyone one else lives, but around here most kids have cell phones by middle school. It's actually rare to find a kid that doesn't have one.

She hasn't ever had anything stolen but has lost a few lunch boxes, gloves, hoodies etc.

 

[tvguy]

What does that have to do with the age a kid gets a cell phone. You are the one who made it a point to tell everyone that your kid didn't get a phone until they were 16.

When other people's decisions regarding their kids start impacting me, I think it is reasonable for me to object. No different than anything else in a free society, your rights are only limited by the point at which they start impacted other people's rights.

 

[jama]

Last year as a 10th grader, my daughter had a bottle of gatorade stolen from the drink pocket of her backpack...

 

[tvguy]

At my dd's HS they use their personal cells in CLASS to help with their schoolwork when the teacher allows it. Basically it is their personal computer.

They are allowed to use their cells in class as dictated by the individual teacher rules, during pass time, at lunch, etc.

I had to GET my dd a smartphone to help her keep up with school.

New one on me. But, that could start a whole new thread about the digital divide and how low income children are left behind because the school is not providing the tools they need in class.

 

[Poohforyou]

Sort of like second hand smoke I guess is the best way to describe it. Someone else's kid having one impacted my life.
Not my money or my kid, but when cell phones were being stolen and it prompted locker searches at school it impacted my kids. Their lockers and backpacks were searched too. And it was their classes that were disrupted when some kids phone rang in class. And when the polcy changed, and they banned them on campus, it was another form to sign, acknowledging if my kid was caught on campus with one, I would have to come to the office to retrieve it. And then there were the parents who objected to the policy calling asking for my support to lift the ban.

I sign tons of forms for school that have nothing to do with my child or me (like declining insurance or the option to apply for subsidized lunches). I also get called for all kinds of things. I remember seaches in HS when class notes or papers were stolen.

You'd have to live in a cave in the middle of nowhere for other peoples lives not to affect you.

 

[Poohforyou]

New one on me. But, that could start a whole new thread about the digital divide and how low income children are left behind because the school is not providing the tools they need in class.

Our school does the same thing with personal devices like smart phones or tablets. iPads are available for those students that don't have a personal device but there aren't enough for everyone.

 

[MrsPete]

We constantly have things stolen at school. It's sad, but it's just a part of the world in which we live. Things I've noticed as a teacher:

- Kids tend to feel safe in group activities: For example, last week I went out to see the girls at softball practice, and ALL of them left their bookbags behind the dugout. I'm sure those bags contained graphing calculators, phones, ipods. I walked past these bags to get to the bleachers. If I'd had a mind to, I could've picked up any bag and kept walking -- I could've backed my car up and tossed all their bags into my trunk -- everyone was gone from the parking lot, and the dugout kept them from seeing their bags.

- Kids tend not to use the security spots provided for them: For example, our 9th grade girls don't like to fold up and put their clothes into a locker during PE class. They like to leave them laying out on the benches. This is well known, and every so often someone'll ask for a note to the bathroom out of math class, go down to the girl's locker room and "go shopping" from the bench. A girl with a big purse can make off with a couple nice outfits. Likewise, most of our students refuse to use a locker; they prefer to think nothing bad can happen. I've never heard of anything going missing from a locked locker.

- Kids tend to be trusting in class: For example, say we begin class with a whole-class activity, then we move into groups. If I say it's going to be a short activity and we'll be moving back to our seats in a few minutes, most kids leave their bookbags (and girls leave their purses) at their "real desk" while they move to their group's assigned spot. Likewise, kids leave their things at their lunch table while they go to the other side of the cafeteria to talk to friends.

- We have massive amounts of lost property in the office, and few students ever come looking for it. Once I had the job of folding it and taking it to Goodwill at the end of the school year. A couple of us bagged it up, and we packed my SUV to the gills (even the passenger seat next to me was full). I had to come back for a second trip, and my SUV was 50% full. Most of it was sweatshirts and jackets, but we also had unclaimed shoes, backpacks, a sleeping bag, an expensive camera, many watches and pieces of jewerly, even car keys.

In general, I don't think teens should have expensive items at school -- especially younger teens. It's not that they don't intend to watch after things, but they aren't particularly good at watching their things consistantly. They put their purses down, leave their $100 calculators under their desks, and let people see that they have a bunch of cash. They have too many holes in their vigilance.