Kid breaks his phone at school rather than letting it be confiscated, now the parents want the school to pay: 'You better pay for my son's phone!'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Mar 15, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Taking responsibility for your own actions is important and one of the first major lessons that a young kid should learn from their parents. Unfortunately, a bunch of kids were never taught this lesson—or if the seeds were planted… they never took root. When these kids grow up and have kids of their own, predictably the new parents are not the most reliable at teaching their own children a lesson that they themselves never learned, leading to a new generation of entitled people in a vicious self-perpetuating cycle.

Teachers have the joy of watching this take place in real-time, when the parents of a badly behaved student need to get involved and, after only a short conversation, they can easily tell where the behavior came from. 

In this case, this student was responsible for destroying his own phone when staff at the school tried to confiscate it from him. Of course, it ended up that the entitled child had entitled parents who weren't 

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    "You better pay for my son's phone!"
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    Posted by u/Ancient_Educator_76 "You better pay for my son's phone!"? Sure thing, I'll send you a bill... MOC Today marks the beginning of a new era. An era where a school district stands up for itself and thumbs it's nose to the one percent. Today's MC is really a continuation of an original MC from two days ago, where a student demanded I let go of their phone, so I let go and let both his phone and a school window get damaged.
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    Originally administration was letting the parents know that there is no way that they will be paying the parents for a replacement phone in this instance. A security guard and 34 other students witnessed this kid take his phone aggressively out of the teachers' hand and subsequently launch it across the room. It was 100 percent the students' fault. Administration was willing to drop it and move on, hoping that the family of this student would do the same. That was definitely not the case. The pa
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    This is when admin of my middle school, with district backing, performed the best MC I've seen in a bit. I'm proud to be at my school district today. The district has come to the conclusion, after investigating the incident, getting statements from students/witnesses/me/security, etc., that it was the students' fault that the phone flew in the air. The district agreed, however, to pay for the students' phone, as it was technically in a teacher's possession when it got damaged. It was an iPhone 1
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    Then administration did them one better by also sending the parents a bill for the window, to the tune of $1678 dollars. It wasn't a typical window, nor is it easy to replace. Once the teacher let go of the phone it was in the students' possession, so now it's the students' fault. I'm not sure if this is the argument they made, but I'm presuming this is their justification for it. Doing some quick math, it looks like they're paying $800 something dollars either way! Plus the student is in ISS fo
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    TM; DR (too medium; didn't read) - a student's parents demand the school district pay to replace a student's phone that he accidentally threw across the classroom. The district issues a check for the phone and a bill for the damage the phone did to the window, plus a destruction of property charge on the kid's school record.
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    Resident-Device-2814 They should only be paying the replacement value. On an iPhone 12, depending on the exact model, that's only around $280 - $330. Onk 1.1k Reply Share ●●● Ancient Educator_76 OP The only confirmed number I have is on the window, thanks to "Dave" in 502 security's wife working next door at district office. I really want to know how much they have to pay after all is said and done. Reply Share
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    AndyTiger I'm all for discipline, but sending a minor to the International Space Station for breaking a window seems a little over the top. 242 Reply Share 31 Sigma006 Funny, because there's a movie of some kids accidently getting sent to space. As a kid I would have enjoyed that very much. ●●● Reply Share ●●●
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    twat69 How rich do you have to be for being sent to the International Space Station to be a punishment? Onk 296 Reply Share ●●● Ancient Educator_76 OP Ha! I never even thought about this usage of the acronym for In-School Suspension. In our neck of the woods it's Is Somebody Snoring? 146 A big no-no in ISS. the kids better be working, and they've learned that if they "finish all their work" given by teachers, they just end up with more work to do. Reply Share
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    wee- -5 I wouldn't have paid for the phone, and sent the bill for the window. This is a step backward. 265 Reply Share sintaur Right? The phone was safely in the teacher's possession. The phone broke as a direct result of the student's actions. 76 Reply Share
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    _gadget_girl I think they would have been better off sending the bill for the window minus a credit for the current replacement value of an iPhone 12. Sending a check lets the parents cash it, get the kid a newer, better phone and then proceed to refuse to pay the bill. 65凸 Reply Share
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