Mobile phone confiscated

Faith177

My school way back in 2002 lol wouldn't let us have it back till the end of term unless your parent came and collected out of school hours.

If you were caught 3 times in a term then you were not allowed a mobile at school at all until the following term

spacey2012

halibut2209 wrote: »

That gives me an idea. I'm friends with the police officer who is assigned to the school in question. I might see what he thinks should I not be happy with the school's response

Try it, they will tell you the school does not intend to permanently deprive the phone so it is not theft.
You are the public, they are authority.

Something often forgotten these days.

halibut2209

Hintza wrote: »

But I do hope your daughter got a detention for her disregard of school rules.

If she does, I shall not be complaining.

MamaMoo_2

My school used to have the same rule.
As it was a very good school, there were students coming from miles around (for example, I lived over an hour away, and there were students who lived further away than myself)
The school confiscated one of the girls' phones. Before the girl left school she phoned her mom from the office to tell her about the situation. Her mom asked the school to return the phone as she lived too far away to come and collect the phone that day, but didn't want her daughter to do such a long journey without her phone.
School refused, and so the girl had to go home without a phone.
Turns out, the last 45 minutes of the girl's journey home was a walk through quiet country roads. She was followed by a man in a van who then tried to get her into the van by force.
She couldn't call for help for obvious reasons and the poor thing was traumatised.
The next day her mother raised hell at the school, who then proceeded to accuse the girl of making it all up to get her phone back. This caused the mother to go even more batsh!t crazy, and after practically stapling proof of the incident to the receptionists head, the headmistress got involved.
From then on they returned all phones at the end of the school day after a courtesy call home.

halibut2209

It's stupid to make the parents go in, definitely. What if both parents work and don't get home til 6?

And to go with what bod said

"Technically it is the child's phone, thus the parent may not have the absolute right to demand the child's property from the school?"

If it's the child's property, then the school has no right to keep it out of school hours. By all means give them an after-school detention then give them their phone back, but to insist on the parents picking it up will only cause problems in the future.

This is a new rule here. The phone was taken at lunchtime which has always been allowed up to now. It's a brand new building with an area specifically for people to use their phones at lunch, so no idea why they are now going back on it.

There were about 20 parents there today waiting for phones, and a lot of them were very very angry!

But thumbremote had it right. They weren't sure exactly where it was earlier.

System

MamaMoo wrote: »

My school used to have the same rule.
As it was a very good school, there were students coming from miles around (for example, I lived over an hour away, and there were students who lived further away than myself)
The school confiscated one of the girls' phones. Before the girl left school she phoned her mom from the office to tell her about the situation. Her mom asked the school to return the phone as she lived too far away to come and collect the phone that day, but didn't want her daughter to do such a long journey without her phone.
School refused, and so the girl had to go home without a phone.
Turns out, the last 45 minutes of the girl's journey home was a walk through quiet country roads. She was followed by a man in a van who then tried to get her into the van by force.
She couldn't call for help for obvious reasons and the poor thing was traumatised.
The next day her mother raised hell at the school, who then proceeded to accuse the girl of making it all up to get her phone back. This caused the mother to go even more batsh!t crazy, and after practically stapling proof of the incident to the receptionists head, the headmistress got involved.
From then on they returned all phones at the end of the school day after a courtesy call home.

Although obviously it wasn't it does sound a made up story.

It's a bit of a coincidence that the one time this girls phone is taken she is almost abducted!

Still coincidences do happen.

nomoneytoday

Why do children need their phones during skool hours?

They're there to learn.

Outside of skool hours, then fair enough, and the same for travelling too

MamaMoo_2

goater78 wrote: »

Although obviously it wasn't it does sound a made up story.

It's a bit of a coincidence that the one time this girls phone is taken she is almost abducted!

Still coincidences do happen.

If I remember rightly, it wasn't quite a first offence. Or anywhere near that. It was quite a regular occurrence, however her mom couldn't get in to the school that day.

System

MamaMoo wrote: »

If I remember rightly, it wasn't quite a first offence. Or anywhere near that. It was quite a regular occurrence, however her mom couldn't get in to the school that day.

If she was regularly attacked on the way home why didn't she go a different route?

bod1467

I suspect MM means the phone use/confiscation wasn't a first offence.