Should I (The Parent) Complain To The School (teenagers, games, accident)
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I never signed anything stating that. The only "computer" related thing I signed was about being able to use their internet. And the 25 trillion page document said nothing about principals taking the computer.
Well then, unless another parent signed crap, you're missing some paperwork. Every one of my kids...and STILL my high schooler, brings home a huge mess of papers....packets and individual. I have seen my husband, never reading a word, sign those puppies as fast as he can, just to get them out of the way. Not always a good policy......apparently.
You'll get it back. I'm wondering why you have to meet the superintendent. This is something our superintendent would handle with just a phone call. If you don't get satisfaction with the superintendent, go to the school board.
Instead of meetings and phone calls, you should put your communication in writing since you seem uncertain. I'd send that principal a certified letter detailing the conversation and demanding he return it. When you put in writing that he told you he wouldn't give it back, he'll take it seriously and back peddle. You need things in writing---especially with schools---or they claim things didn't happen the way you say.
I already met with the teacher and the principal earlier today. I just stormed out because they claimed "the student wasnt listening during class so we have full rights to take it." I read the whole Connecticut DOE for two hours earlier.
I already met with the teacher and the principal earlier today. I just stormed out because they claimed "the student wasnt listening during class so we have full rights to take it." I read the whole Connecticut DOE for two hours earlier.
This indicates that you focused your discussion on why they took it. They are right about being allowed to take it.
It sounds like you might have made an assumption that it wouldn't be returned and stormed out before it was resolved.
Stop meeting them in person and/or talking on the phone, especially if you can't keep your cool.
The only reason they would keep it, is if it was involved in something illegal that the police need to see. You don't have to go to the superintendent of the school. Just send an email stating that you know your child should have been paying attention and that you will be by the next day to pick up the laptop. Then, I would have him use a school laptop during class.
According to the OP laptops are allowed. I would march on there first thing tomorrow, demand to talk to the principal and get it back. If they refuse to give it back, file a police report.
I already met with the teacher and the principal earlier today. I just stormed out because they claimed "the student wasnt listening during class so we have full rights to take it." I read the whole Connecticut DOE for two hours earlier.
So you disagree!? You stormed out, because they claimed they had the right to take if from him, because he was screwing with the computer during class, when he was supposed to have been listening?" You think your kid is too good or smart to do that?
Yeah, you definitely have the right to parent any way you want to. You're even allowed to show how cool you and your kid are, by letting him sport a $2,300 laptop to school (not the way I'D parent, but hey), but you're never going to convince me that you're not the one who's fumbled the ball on this one, over and over again. Perhaps if you'd acted like a calm, rational, parent, instead of acting like YOU were being sent to "the office", to watch your poor child humiliated, things would have turned out differently.
You're worried about getting YOUR laptop back. If you were that concerned about its safety, you shouldn't have let it leave the house with him. Go get the laptop for cryin' out loud. Let them know that you NEVER should have allowed him to bring it to school, that you're SO sorry that he was so rude and disrepectful in class and that you will do whatever is necessary, to see to it that it NEVER happens again. Period.
According to the acceptable use policy, they're only allowed to use the internet in specific circumstances. He wasn't using the internet when he was permitted and probably not for educational purposes.
My son's district has a BYOD program. Kids bring expensive laptops and tablets daily, but there was an agreement waving district responsibility for loss and damage, and parents have to pick it up if it's taken away.
This district I teach in has a strict do not bring a device or it will be taken until a parent picks it up policy.
Neither district has a you lose it and it belongs to the school plan.
The district I teach in strongly discourages students from bringing expensive electronic equipment to school. The parents sign a form saying that it is not the schools responsibility if something happens to it at school. I have seen kindergartens sneak IPads to school in their school bags and just carelessly toss them around or leave them sitting in the open on the hallway shelf. The teacher will temporarily take it until the parent can pick it up.
The school that my kids went to allows HS students to bring their own laptop computers, but very, very few actually do that. The parents sign a form saying that it is not the schools responsibility if something happens to the computer at school.
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Originally Posted by theguyfrompluto
I already met with the teacher and the principal earlier today. I just stormed out because they claimed "the student wasnt listening during class so we have full rights to take it." I read the whole Connecticut DOE for two hours earlier.
Still sounds odd. If you had not stormed out were they about to say "we have full rights to take it... and hold it until your son apologizes to the teacher for disrupting the class and then we will return the computer to you."
Even if you child was watching child porn on his computer during school I still don't see how they could keep it-----unless the were holding the computer for the police.
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