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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could “take one from the lost and found” have meant just for practice? It’s very common at our pool to take & then return items from lost and found. [/quote]

Yes, ours too, and I don't have a problem with that as long as the item goes right back where it came from after practice is over.  Our pool has a "goggle box" and a "toy box."  The toy box is a rotating hodgepodge of lost and abandoned items, mainly small dollar-store diving toys and things like that (we don't allow inflatables, and there are enough balls on property that no one needs to bring those on their own).  Most of the goggles in the goggle box are of the toy rather than the sport/racing category, but I always made sure my kids put them right back after borrowing them.

The culture of the pool itself is such that a lost item is usually right where you left it a day or two later, or even well beyond that.  I've found towels of ours months after they were accidentally abandoned, because they were at the bottom of the lost-and-found textiles hamper - yuck![/quote]

Bring your own toys and goggles and stop stealing others.  [/quote]

Stop leaving your cr*p all over the pool so it doesn't end up in the lost and found.[/quote]

We don’t and it still gets stollen.  You are proud you steal?[/quote]

So people are going through your pool bag to steal goggles and toys..ugh huh.sure. totally happening.
more like you kid leaves their stuff all over and it get lost[/quote]

Mine have had their entire bag swipped and we found the stuff all over the place.  They have never lost even a water bottle at school.  Its your kids who think its ok to take things and call it borrowing.  You are teaching your kids to steal as you are too selfish to buy a few pair of goggles and leave two in the bag, one in the car and its never an issue.[/quote]

DP.  Some kids will literally steal other team members stuff (especially if the victim is unpopular) if they forgot theirs - and not feel guilty about it at all.  This is unfortunate and is part of a coach's duty to control.  Your swim league may have a swimmer code of conduct.  If you witnessed something and you feel that strongly about it, report it to the head official at your meet.[/quote]

No this is not a coaching issue. This is a parenting issue. 
Are there really teams where kids are stealing things? not talking about borrowing goggles from lost and found?

For the last  10 yrs  have been on a team with almost 200 hundred kids  and have never had an issue with stealing. Yes kids accidentally grab the wrong towel or team shirt, but always return once they realize/if things are labeled.  [/quote]

In a public pool anyone can come in and take things.

You don’t borrow from list and found.  You are stealing it.  Borrowing is asking permission.  Taking without permission is stealing.  [/quote]

this wasn't about stealing at a public pool. This started with a discussion of stealing during an A meet which occurs in summer swim at a meet held at a private pool where all kids on the team are members of the private pool. Seriously, never once have we had something stolen at our pool. Now my kids have misplaced team shirts and such but that was on them not other kids stealing. [/quote]

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