daughter's iphone stolen at school

DarkConvict

Silk wrote: »

For the school to try to pass the blame onto the victim is staggering as is this idea of dumping your belongings outside unattended !

Sadly this is modern society, you have to look after yourself and protect against those who would otherwise cause you harm. People used to leave doors open/unlocked but this is no longer the case.

Aristophanes wrote:

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.

As horrible as it is, hopefully they will have learned a lesson for the future. Sadly it was a expensive first encounter with crime.

The child isn't really to blame they are to young to understand, but the parent should have known better.

hazelwoods

Kimitatsu wrote: »

My son had a letter home from school last week re-iterating the school policy that mobiles and ipods were not to be taken into school as there were instances of people flouting the rules and then them being stolen. As parents we had to sign the reply slip to say that we realised this was the case and had discussed it with our children.

In order to combat the fact that they may miss the bus etc, there are receptionists on duty until 5.30pm and they operate a runner system during the day so you CAN get a message to your child or they can ring you at any time.

Interestingly my son wont take his phone because the teachers are clever and enable blue tooth on the laptops so they can see who has their phone with them (if they are switched on) and will confiscate them. It is then the parents who have to reclaim them from the school safe not the children.........

I love it!

As the OP didn't report back after his first posts about this we don't know how the school reacted. He has been too busy posting elsewhere on mse to update us. IMHO if the school were refusing to help he'd be here complaining. Says it all really.

photome

hazelwoods wrote: »

I love it!

As the OP didn't report back after his first posts about this we don't know how the school reacted. He has been too busy posting elsewhere on mse to update us. IMHO if the school were refusing to help he'd be here complaining. Says it all really.

I would like to know the outcome, its always good when an OP follows up from their OP. It seems you have all upset him though as he has been posting on the "nicepeoples " thread

lucylucky

billbennett wrote: »

Going back to the main point... why the hell did the kid have an iPhone in school anyway?

If I was sending a kid to school, I'd send them with a beaten-up 3-year-old Nokia for the purpose of staying in touch with me if the need arose. If it got stolen, no big loss. Bar the [pay as you go] SIM card, stick a replacement in another old phone.

The main point is the fact an item was stolen.;)

Why send something as new as a 3 year old nokia?

I have a 8 year old Motorola that still works.

POPPYOSCAR

billbennett wrote: »

Going back to the main point... why the hell did the kid have an iPhone in school anyway?

If I was sending a kid to school, I'd send them with a beaten-up 3-year-old Nokia for the purpose of staying in touch with me if the need arose. If it got stolen, no big loss. Bar the [pay as you go] SIM card, stick a replacement in another old phone.

That is not the main point for me.Can we all get past the fact that an iphone was in school and get back to the point of the school knowing who stole something and what if anything are they doing about it?

jimbms

Take out a private prosecution and name the school as a hostile witness, then the school will be bound by court order to reveal the information.

hazelwoods

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

That is not the main point for me.Can we all get past the fact that an iphone was in school and get back to the point of the school knowing who stole something and what if anything are they doing about it?

We'd love to know what the school did, but as OP hasn't been back to tell us we have been left wondering. His complaint (that the school weren't doing anything) was made before they had the chance to do anything. It would have been polite to come back and report.

anonymousie

custardy wrote: »

like what?

See my entry (I realise I'm invisible!). My teens (one from the girls school, one from the boys- 2 schools, same site) were chucked fairly unceremoniously out of school at 12.30 mid week as the water main was damaged in the street. THey are bus trvellers and fairly "savvy" generally but I need to know where they are really if they aren't in school and they know this. THey could let me know and plan their own afternoon ( theyare 14 and nearly 17).

Schools- did let me know- but email to home isn't much good when I'm at work LOL!

THey also have late notice athletics/drama/music stuff that happens at short notice and somethines the bus service (just an ordinary bus, not a school special) goes haywire and they have to re reroute- they are fine with this now, but when just 11 and a month or so into secondary DD1 didn't have a clue when the bus chucked eeryone off a couple of miles from home because of a road blockeage.

poet123

Why do schools have this rule? clearly because they cannot, should not, be held responsible for expensive items on school premises. Most kids do have a phone, for emergencies, for phoning if they are staying after school for xyx activity, but common sense surely dictates that an Iphone is a magnet for thieves be they inside or outside school.

So, if you choose to suspend common sense then you cannot moan when things happen as the school expected they would. I know it must be irritating, upsetting and expensive, but you make choices and you take the consequences. Your daughter should have asked the teacher to keep the phone safe, but I expect that she knew that the teacher would take one look at the phone and make a similar comment to those here.

mrcow

Silk wrote: »

The school is to blame if the teacher instructs the pupils to leave bags unattended outside, it's a bit of an open invitation for someone to nick something isn't it !

Many school don't allow bags in certain type of classrooms. Eg. science labs where there are people moving about and a trip into a set of glass equipment or chemicals could be hazardous. Bags often have to be left outside of the classroom in designated areas due to H&S. The teacher may well have had no choice.

Or in exams or mocks tests, bags are often not allowed in the room depending on the set up of the room in question.

The school is not to blame for someone flouting the rules and carrying around expensive personal equipment.

As stated earlier, if the pupil was worried or interested in taking responsibilty for the £300 item in their bag, they should have flagged it to the teacher and asked for it to be looked after/locked away. A bit of common sense goes a long way.