Device taken from MS kid

[Anonymous]

My tween’s assigned, password protected school tablet was taken from their things, most likely by a peer or older student, late last week. The school knows and will reassign a new one.

If the school determines who took it (we are new and don’t know what kind of tracking is done), would you try to meet with the school and push for a consequence? All of the assigned work is in that device, along with specific class materials that are required every day, including weekends. We couldn’t get them a new one over the past few days. Please don’t flame; this is reasonable and human to feel frustrated. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely. They affected your child’s trust in his peers, they inconvenienced him in terms of assignments and in terms of time and energy spent with the situation. No consequence means the thief will certainly strike again.

That said, I don’t know how much control you have over that side of things. I think it’s completely fair that you be informed of who it was, so your kid knows to be on their guard around them. But as far as a punishment, you may not be entitled to find that part of things out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. They affected your child’s trust in his peers, they inconvenienced him in terms of assignments and in terms of time and energy spent with the situation. No consequence means the thief will certainly strike again.

That said, I don’t know how much control you have over that side of things. I think it’s completely fair that you be informed of who it was, so your kid knows to be on their guard around them. But as far as a punishment, you may not be entitled to find that part of things out.

Very good points - thanks for the perspective and giving me a good approach.

[Anonymous]

If this is a school that has to comply with FERPA, they aren’t going to tell you much of anything. You need to be realistic given privacy laws.

[Anonymous]

If the tablets all look alike, the student could have grabbed it without realizing. So calm down a second.

[Anonymous]

They’re not going to tell you anything and they’re not going to punish based on your request. It’s pretty much the law.

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t the assignments be accessible via the cloud? Can’t he log in on another device to access them?

[Anonymous]

Was it taken from his locker or other place that it would be obviously a theft? Inside a backpack?

Or left on a table etc and when he went back it was gone?

[Anonymous]

It was in a bag and certain assignments aren’t in the cloud. I don’t intend to push to where privacy would be violated, but hopefully DC gets the replacement ASAP. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My tween’s assigned, password protected school tablet was taken from their things, most likely by a peer or older student, late last week. The school knows and will reassign a new one.

If the school determines who took it (we are new and don’t know what kind of tracking is done), would you try to meet with the school and push for a consequence? All of the assigned work is in that device, along with specific class materials that are required every day, including weekends. We couldn’t get them a new one over the past few days. Please don’t flame; this is reasonable and human to feel frustrated. Thanks.

Isn’t the schoolwork and assignments in the cloud? Our school’s laptops are just dummy terminals. If your child logged into a new one, it would look exactly the same and all the same assignments and work would be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was it taken from his locker or other place that it would be obviously a theft? Inside a backpack?

Or left on a table etc and when he went back it was gone?

+1 There's a camera above my kids' locker. When his locker was broken into, we asked for the security video to be pulled that same day. Unfortunately, it was at the very end of the school year, and they didn't do it right away, and then came back with the excuse that the video was gone from the cloud due to the summer holidays.

But you could try that if there's security cameras around where the theft occurred.