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[quote=Anonymous]School theft fascinates me. In elementary school kids would take special erasers or jean jacket pins and then pretend they were theirs.

I went to a fancy suburban HS in the 90s and theft was a huge problem. There was a graphing calculator fencing ring run by a group of honors students and varsity athletes. Two of them are now successful doctors. They would steal calculators out of backpacks on the floor of classrooms during class. Then when you realized you didn’t have your calculator and would have to ask your parents to replace a $80 one in February, kids would magically appear to offer you one for $30-$40 that “they didn’t need anymore because they stopped using it last year”. Engraving them didn’t work because they would just scratch it out with a Dremel and say it had been a hand-me-down and that the scratched off part was a neighbor’s name or whatever.

I was shocked to visit one of my college friend’s private schools later and see unattended backpacks lining the halls. To me that was the height of luxury. My child now attends a private school and there are many behavioral problems but zero theft, even the small petty kind that little kids are tempted by.

On the other hand, we get emails 1-2 times per year from DD’s gymnastics gym about theft. That’s crazy to me because the team is small and they basically all know each other. I don’t understand why teammates would steal from each other.[/quote]

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