Has Your Child Had Anything Stolen At School?

[momof1princess]

yes, DD15 had a brand new winter coat stolen when she was in 2nd grade (might've been 3rd). she'd worn it outside to P.E., gotten too warm while playing, and took it off, tossing it on a bench next to the far side of the playground fence. we looked for it that afternoon when i picked her up, but it was gone. never turned up in the lost and found. and i tell y'all, our lost and found was HUGE! i couldn't believe kids would lose brand name clothing that looked brand new, and the parents didn't miss it! we never did find out what happened to that coat.

 

[G719]

I had $50 stolen when I was substitute teaching for a half day at a high school. I had left my purse in the teachers' office which is not connected to any classroom and is shared by all the math teachers. It was under the desk. Someone took my wallet out of my purse. They just took the money and the janitor found my wallet after school. Guess how much I made working that half day? Yep, $50.

 

[hereyago]

True. And it was a pro-sports team jacket, not a spirt jacket. Wasn't expensive, just the principle.

Oopd.i meant sports jacket, but i have big fngers on.this.stupid touch text.keyboard lol.

 

[shortbun]

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

 

[Mrs.Malone]

DS 11 had a jacket stolen at school. The kids were told to leave
their jackets in a pile in the gym while they went outside to play. When he came back at the end of class (last one in)
his jacket was gone. It never turned up though we kept looking.
DS was heartbroken as this was the first time he wore it to
school. Before that he was too afraid it would be lost or stolen
but I encouraged him to just wear it since I wanted him to
get some use out of it. I felt so bad for talking him into taking it and offered to replace it
but he said he'll never take a brand name jacket to school
again.
I just want to know what 6th grade kid came home with a
brand new norrthface jacket with another kid's name and number in sharpie
several places inside it, and his parents didn't make him at
least take it to lost and found.

 

[pandamom]

In kindergarten my dd had a brand new Kim Possible (yes this was many years ago) jacket stolen. She saw another girl wearing it and told the teacher but the girl said it was hers. The next day dd told the teacher again and that she had her name written on the tag of the jacket. The teacher asked the girl again and she still claimed it was hers. The teacher checked the tag and sure enough it had dd's name in it. dd got her jacket back. Found out later that the same girl had stolen prescription glasses from dd's friend. dd's friend's mom called and left several messages for the thief's parents but they never bothered calling her back so she contacted the school. She did finally get the glasses back.

 

[NHdisneylover]

DS has never had anything stolen at school, but he did have a leather jacket stolen from the dance studio when he was 8.
He left it on the coat hooks in the hallway (as required) and after class it was gone. We searched everywhere, notified the studio owners, checked lost and found repeatedly, etc.
It was another of those situations, as PPs talk about, where there is no way someone sized to fit it could have it and the parents NOT notice. The fact that an adult would steal it themselves, or allow their child to is what bothered me the most.

That said, I am not entirely sure that I would call something that was left on the bus seat "stolen" In our house that would fall under "was irresponsible and lost it" and sadly the finder chose not to return it.

DS had a sports team jacket stolen.
Sorry, still have trouble accepting a 14 year old with a cell phone let along an iphone. My kids got cell phones when they were 16 and driving, but they had to stay in the glove box (school rule, not mine).

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

 

[magicgirl]

My 6 yr old grandson had his coat stolen from school. It was quite distinctive and had his name written on the label. My DIL went into the school the next day to ask the teacher about it. A child came in wearing a very similar coat and the teacher asked him about it. He claimed it was his and the label had been cut out. My DIL then pulled the sleeve inside out and her sons name was there where she had written it as an extra precaution. What I don't understand is how a parent goes along with their child stealing and does nothing to correct it.

 

[java]

My oldest gives everyone the benefit of the doubt. He's had 2 items stolen. One, an iPod touch in high school, he had left it in his backpack. Put backpack down outside a class when a teacher called him in to help with something, someone grabbed it.

And just recently he had his phone taken in college.

Both times he wasn't being responsible, but still stinks that there are so many people with sticky fingers.

 

[indimom]

No, but they don't take anything worth stealing to school. We have cheap pay-as-you-go phones (which, honestly, they don't always take with them) and I won't let them take game systems, kindles or ipods. They are too expensive to lose/break/have stolen, and I told them if they have too much spare time, they can read or work on homework. Same goes for sports events like all-day wrestling meets. Bring a book or chear on your teammates.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

DD had her Ipod stolen. She would carry a bag with no closure. She left it on her desk while they went to band practice in another room. So all a kid had to do was reach into her bag and get it.

I always warned her about that but as a teenager would they listen?

 

[hereyago]

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

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.

 

[rszdtrvl]

What I don't understand is how a parent goes along with their child stealing and does nothing to correct it.

When my husband was a child, if he wanted something, his mother would say to steal it.
Sad story. I could see this from his eyes : cold outside, needs a jacket. Let mom know. Mom said "Just steal one". Stole one. Mom helped cut the tag out. Child was warm. And embarrased when found to have stolen it.

Doesn't make it right. Some people are just that way.

(FYI - MIL is the same one who used to tell DH what to steal when he was a child - would say go to The Bon and steal XX Perfume. Yep, she was, and still is, a piece of work.)

 

[dogluva]

DS had a sports team jacket stolen.
Sorry, still have trouble accepting a 14 year old with a cell phone let along an iphone. My kids got cell phones when they were 16 and driving, but they had to stay in the glove box (school rule, not mine).

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.

 

[powellrj]

DS had his Ipod touch stolen by a kid he thought was a friend. We had to get the police involved to get it back. He has had many things stolen at college. The worst was his shoes. He had to walk back home barefoot!

 

[hereyago]

When my husband was a child, if he wanted something, his mother would say to steal it.
Sad story. I could see this from his eyes : cold outside, needs a jacket. Let mom know. Mom said "Just steal one". Stole one. Mom helped cut the tag out. Child was warm. And embarrased when found to have stolen it.

Doesn't make it right. Some people are just that way.

(FYI - MIL is the same one who used to tell DH what to steal when he was a child - would say go to The Bon and steal XX Perfume. Yep, she was, and still is, a piece of work.)

I am so sorry for your dh, i cant imagine teaching my kid let alone not wanting to provide legally for them.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Graphing calculator. No idea when or where.

That was dd's most recent rip off as well a couple of months ago in PE. Makes it worse that it was older dd's calculator which had her full name carved into it.

She has a new purse which is strapped to her body which has her new phone. She knows that if it gets stolen she has to wait until her upgrade is due to get another smartphone. She does not have PE now, thank goodness.

In the past they have had school supplies, money, purses, etc stolen.

 

[luvmy3]

My kids haven't had anything stolen, yet. I have a feeling that it wont be long since our middle school and HS have started to allow smartphones and ipods in class to use as part of the lessons.
My dd in HS is allowed to carry a bag to and from classes, but middle school students are not so I'm sure there will be a bunch forgetting their devices in a class and instead of someone finding it and handing it in they will take it. (And yes, that IS stealing).

And really, who steals gym clothes?

 

[tink20]

In middle school, DD had her yearbook stolen even before the teacher gave it to her. The books were on the homeroom teacher's desk, DD's was on top, we had ordered the name plate on it too. She was so upset, all her friends were getting each other to sign their books. Her teacher told her to go to the teacher over yearbooks, who made it even worse, she told my daughter "well I can't just GIVE you another book" I was so mad. In the end they found out who stole it, got it back (with the name plate ripped off) The principal told me the boy would be punished.

Then another year in middle school, DD had made up little gift bags for her friends for Christmas, while in PE, someone stole one of the bags.

 

[dmiller64152]

Not at school, but in our last neighborhood there was a kid two years older than my DS5 who would steal anything he could get his hands on. Everyone in the neighborhood knew it but the kid's two moms bullied anyone who mentioned anything, and the police refused to get involved. One day I found the kid in my house ... he had broken in the basement window. Last year I sold that house and moved. It wasn't a bad neighborhood but one bad apple. I still felt sorry for the kid, his moms wouldn't let him in the house before dark and he just roamed the streets, looking for trouble. He will end up in jail I'm sure.