Reply to: School thieving - how should I react?

[tarbera]

Mouse Trap in pocket

Daughter told me today that she lost £1 from her blazer. Went to teacher and they reviewed CCTV. Saw this girl put daughter's blazer on, walk around, go in toilets for a long while. This girl asked another girl if she should steal from my daughter.

This girl apparently like my daughter and has made lots of catty comments. Not that my daughter cares. This girl is regularly in trouble and spends alot of time in the Sin Bin.

This girl is leaving the school soon.

Should I just let the school deal with it? Insist on some course of action?

Mouse Trap in pocket should take this girls Clean off if she tries it again, line pocket with plastic so blood does not stain coat.

Call the Police and Daily Wail also if other girl is a benifits or migent family background.

[d000hg]

CCTV? Sin Bin? WTF?

[Mich the Tester]

Thoroughly disinfect your daughter's blazer to prevent infection with nasty chav-borne diseases.

[vetran]

yep its best if we get the kid a criminal record early!

[Paddy]

Daughter told me today that she lost £1 from her blazer. Went to teacher and they reviewed CCTV. Saw this girl put daughter's blazer on, walk around, go in toilets for a long while. This girl asked another girl if she should steal from my daughter.

This girl apparently like my daughter and has made lots of catty comments. Not that my daughter cares. This girl is regularly in trouble and spends alot of time in the Sin Bin.

This girl is leaving the school soon.

Should I just let the school deal with it? Insist on some course of action?

Tell your daughter that in front of the classmates, give the assailant another pound and tell her "Your need is greater than mine".

Yours, Jesus

[mudskipper]

Two years in Borstal should do it.

[MarillionFan]

Is this a joke thread?

See OP for more info.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Is this a joke thread?

[BrilloPad]

I have no evidence that the school is planning to brush it under the carpet - the thought had not really occured to me. Well only in passing then I dismissed it. Its a Catholic school with a very strong discipline ethic.

I had assumed they would involve the police - if anything just for the girl's benefit. Sometimes its better to get a harsh discipline lesson early.

So far I have written the school a brief email asking them what is happening. I intend to phone them tomorrow.

Some things are a bit so serious to be dealt with personally. I can think of one incident when I was 16 - Waitrose messed up my wages then accused me of stealing. It was a manager in the warehouse. I just stuck with the truth - he was like a rottwelier. My mother went in and took him apart - got solicitors involved.

[AtW]

Unless of course she is from a poor broken home, abusive parents, disadvantaged to which Brillos daughter will help push her over the edge into self harming or suicide. Great advice SueEllen, thought you had more compassion.

She does not even like cute squirrels, never mind other stuff!!!

[MarillionFan]

Agree.

Your daughter needs find out if she likes extracting revenge.

Personally ensuring everyone in school knows the girl is too poor to buy her own clothes and is a thief is normally enough....

Unless of course she is from a poor broken home, abusive parents, disadvantaged to which Brillos daughter will help push her over the edge into self harming or suicide. Great advice SueEllen, thought you had more compassion.

Alternatively, maybe it is Brillo's daughter is from the poor broken home, abusive parents, disadvantaged, the fact she only had a £1 in her pocket and felt she needed to go to the teachers to find the culprit points at somebody who doesn't have a pot to piss in. Our butlers daughter carries ten times than that to school and she's only 4.

[MarillionFan]

Agree.

Your daughter needs find out if she likes extracting revenge.

Personally ensuring everyone in school knows the girl is too poor to buy her own clothes and is a thief is normally enough....

Unless of course she is from a poor broken home, abusive parents, disadvantaged to which Brillos daughter will help push her over the edge into self harming or suicide. Great advice SueEllen, thought you had more compassion.

[Bellona]

Give the school a deadline, say you will be back in X weeks to see them face to face so they can explain how they resolved it. That will make them realise they can't brush it under the carpet.

+1
Give them short deadline though otherwise it may be a cause of them letting things slide if the girl is leaving soon anyway.

[SueEllen]

I'd tell my daughter to plan her own revenge. There's a few humiliations that spring to mind that would be appropriate for someone who steals a whole £1. (But that's because I'm nasty and vicious. YMMV).

Agree.

Your daughter needs find out if she likes extracting revenge.

Personally ensuring everyone in school knows the girl is too poor to buy her own clothes and is a thief is normally enough....

[KentPhilip]

I'd be after sexual favours from the other girl, in reparation.

Yours, Jimmy Savile