[MsMewiththat]

OK... I need opinions... please...

My son and two other boys were sharing a locker during football practice two a days. They weren't really keeping much in it before they got their equipment, just their street shoes and phones, IPODS etc. while they were practicing. They made it a full week and four days without a problem. Friday of the first week they received their equipment and put it in the locker using one of the students locks. My son wanted to start leaving his cleets in his locker along with his pads etc. everyday so he asked me if I would buy a lock so he didn't have to share anymore. So on Monday he brought his own lock, but the student that owned the lock they had been using didn't come to practice. Tuesday the kid was again a no-show they had the janitors cut the lock on Tuesday because the other boys were unable to practice without their stuff. My son then replaced the cut lock with the lock I had purchased for him. Wed. no problem, Thursday no problem. Friday of the last week none of the boys went to practice because my son was sick and the other boys didn't arrange their own ride aned frankly were too lazy to walk.

Ss this morning, Saturday they had a scrimmage. They got to school and realized the lock was open. The only thing missing out of all three boys, helmets, pads etc. Is the one students cleets that hadn't been coming to practice.

Nobody mentioned anything to me about it as I was dropping them off at home. Not during the scrimmage, not on the way home.

I get around the corner from dropping the child off and my sons phone rings. It's the child's mother. She says "Let me speak to your Mom". I'm really thinking, wow, I have never heard from her before it is really nice of her to call. She must be calling me to thank me for giving her son a ride to and from school for the last two weeks.

Instead what I hear is"
"This is... so and so and I'm child x's mother. I'm calling because your son had the lock cut one day when my son didn't go to practice and my son's cleets were stollen and I feel that your son is responsible for replacing the lock and the cleets... " <---in her most ghetto way...

AMHD...
What is your take on this..?
Where does the responsibility lie..
PS.
I am on my way to go buy my son another lock and he will give the lock that he is currently sharing with them to the kid that had the original lock that had been cut by the janitors so that he will have his own lock that no one else knows the code to.

[Alty]

If the lock was cut off and then immediately replaced, you're not responsible for anything other then a new lock to replace the one that was damaged. Having said that, all the boys would have to pitch in for the new lock because they all needed access to their equipment, which is why the lock was cut off to begin with.

Did you find out why the locker was open? Did one of the boys open it and forget to re-lock it?

If that's the case, the only way your son would be responsible is if he's the one that opened the locker and didn't re-lock it. At least that's my take on it. ;)

[MsMewiththat]

Thank you for your response Altenweg. I was steaming when this women called. The audacity. REALLY?
The locker was never without a lock. When the lock was cut it was immediately replaced by the new one I bought my son. My son and the other student were at the parent night on Thursday and had both been in the locker. They stated that everything was in the locker then. Nothing missing.

It is difficult to determine who was at the locker last. The boy with the missing cleets nor his mother where at the parent night. His cleets were the oldest out of the group were on the bottom of the locker.

My sons cleets were brand new, purchased about 20 days ago and within one half size of the other boys. Im really at a loss as to why soemone would choose to steal the oldest ones in the locker.?
What's with parents these days? I am so offended by the way she chose to handle this.

[MsMewiththat]

Interesting update... the cleets miraculously appeared in an unlocked locker. Who found them? The child himself... suspicous?. I think so.

[Alty]

interesting update... the cleets miraculously appeared in an unlocked locker. Who found them? the child himself...suspicous?.... I think so.

Ah, looks like maybe junior wanted new cleets and when stealing them didn't work they miraculously reappeared.

Suspicious indeed. :)