7:40am: The one and only student in my classroom who would have poentially taken it get's interviewed by me...
His Story
He told me he stayed behind when we went to music because he needed to get is jacket.
He said while he was in the room, 2 bigger kids walked in and teased him and accused him of stealing and told him he needed to get out. He argued that he wasn't stealing and boy #1 chased him around and finally out of the room. Boy #2 lingered behind...
7:45am: A very large man walks into my room, interrupts my teaching to tell me he has a phone that was taken from the school yesterday. He pulls it out and it is MY phone! I ask the man how he got it and he told me his son came home with it. (His son is Boy #2) According to dad, my student gave boy #2 the phone when they passed each other in the hall. I gladly took the phone back, wrote down the boy's name and had the dean come down to meet with the parent. (Dad had told me when he found the phone he took it and turned it off)
8:00am: My student is taken out of class for interviews.
9:00am: My student is returned to class and the principal is 99% sure it was him who took it. (At this point I was wondering why he would be allowed to come back to class but of course didn't argue)
11:00am: Recess Time. At this point I had so many people in and out of my room asking me questions, asking to see the phone, talking to my student that I wasn't sure if I taught my class a single thing. So we were definitely looking forward to going outside.
11:10am: Playground...I was sitting on the bench enjoying watching the kids play when one of my student ran up to me and pulled what looked like a real gun out of his pants!!! I jumped to my feel and grabbed it from him w/o thinking. Realizing it was fake, I sat him down and asked why he brought this to school. He told me it was cool.
11:15am: I am in the asst. principal office, gun in hand, talking to the cops now about the phone. (WHAT A DAY) I forgot I was holding the gun and couldn't figure out why the police were giving me insane looks....haha-oops. I told them my side of the phone story and then explained the gun.
11:40am: Gun kid taken out of class and sent home...suspended until Tuesday.
12:00pm: My phone student now being questioned by police. (He is 7)
1:00pm: My student suspended for 3 days for theft and possibly being charged by the police.
1:40pm: Buses. I put my kids on buses and went in to talk with the asst. principal. She NOW tells me it WAS NOT my student and that they need to un-suspend him. (OMG)
What we now know...
My studnet and the chaser (student 1) reported the same exact story about what happened to 3 different adults and the police. Student 2 (who is know for theft already) told all 3 adults, and the police, a different story and even tried convincing student #1 to agree with him.
Student #2 has been suspended for 2 days on accounts of lying and is most likely going to be home-bound for the rest of the school year. He is also being ticketed by the police. His parents are furious at the school.
Lesson I learned: Lock my classroom door when ever I am not in there.
