Teachers Steal iPods

I agree the teacher should not have taken it UNLESS there is a statement in your school charter that says: "No portable music players of any kind allowed on campus" Then she has a right. She has no right to hold it or keep it though, and i honestly would have said no. I would have then gone to the principal and explained that this being a 300$ + piece of electronics equipment i do not want it to go into the hands of a stranger who may or may not use it w/o my knowledge and may damage it by using it improperly. Then apologize to the teacher and the principal for coming off as rude, and offer for the principal to hold it in a safe place. Where it will not be damaged and you can pick it up at the end of the day.

Thats the way to get it done.

Well... that can be argued. The iPod is technically a "personal entertainment device"

The fact that she listened to it is morally wrong as a teacher.

Maybe she was trying to figure out if you were listening to 'smut'?

Sounds like a kid in school should know better then to take anything of value to school. In this day and age teachers and staff have a whole lot of lattitude in what they can take from students. School hours are meaningless... if you're on their property, you've already given away a ton of civil rights.
Was she wrong for taking it away, maybe. Was she wrong for listening to it, maybe. It could be argued that she didnt know what it was and when she figured it out she wanted to know what was on it.

Let me put it a different way, DONT BRING ANYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR TO YOUR HEART TO SCHOOL.
When you get into college you can be more relaxed and have more freedoms in doing what you want before, after and (hell) during class. But from K to 12th grade you're 3/4's student 1/4 inmate. It sucks, it's unfair, but it's life... get over it.

is this a joke from the other thread where the teacher got his ipod stolen? or is this something serioius

Originally posted by Sypher
That sucks that she/he would take it when you werent even listening to it in a lesson or anything. In my R.E lesson I was listening to it.. the teacher tried to confiscate it.. but there was no way in hell I was giving it to her (shes notoriously clumsy lol) so she just gave up.
But on the whole, my teachers are a lot nicer lol.. the headteacher saw me with my iPod, and he was having a go at me for wearing trainers (since we have a uniform :() but he didnt confiscate it. Same for the head of upper.. he just asked me to put it away. And when we have P.E, my P.E teacher does take it.. but because I asked her to.. cuz I bet some dirty stinking thief would steal it from the changing rooms, so she puts it in her (locked) office.

To be honest, if you use it during a lesson then you deserve to have it taken off you. It's frankly quite rude (no matter how boring the lesson is)...

Don't get me wrong though, I totally understand you not wanting to give it to them ... my whole family are teachers and I wouldn't trust the ipod with them :)

Check you playtimes in iTunes, you can see what she listened to and when, provided she listened all the way thru a song.

Originally posted by Calculus
Does anyone remember when this happened to me? it was just the earbuds though, very clever teacher!

LOL... What an ingenious idea... Except you'll start having students bringing in multiple pairs for such an event :)

The author of the of the original post publically accused a teacher [...excuse me, teacherS...] of "stealing" an iPod [s] which was returned. A reality check is called for in this case. Maybe that author should "back off" the teacher!

If this happens before school starts again, then you should say no and go to the principal's office first and advise him or her of what's going on. You should be able to use you iPod before school but not during classes. Hopefully, from now on if you want to take your iPod to school you will keep it in your pocket and run the wire under your shirt so it won't be so noticable.

This happened to me also. And it wasnt during school time either. I know my teacher, she is a stupid power hungry *****. She listened to it and lost a ear phone pad!

I had my mini taken away in Astronomy class. It wasn't too bad because I got it back at the end of the hour and the teacher was pretty cool. Still, it made think twice about playing with my iPod in class.

Oh, and a simple but very, very useful tip to everyone. If your iPod is getting taken away, put the hold switch on! Most likely, your teacher won't be able to figure out why it won't work and will just leave it alone.

no iPod at school...no problem...

Originally posted by honeybee1236
If this happens before school starts again, then you should say no and go to the principal's office first and advise him or her of what's going on. You should be able to use you iPod before school but not during classes. Hopefully, from now on if you want to take your iPod to school you will keep it in your pocket and run the wire under your shirt so it won't be so noticable.
the funny thing is that, i had it in my pocket!

oh man i think that teacher is a terrorist... mabye not the right words...

Get a Scott E-Vest -- they let you wire everything through the inner folds of the jacket and nothing is visible. And if said a$$hole makes another attempt at nabbing your Pod, take so long to give her the device that she'll slowly but surely come to realize it's not worth 30 minutes of her "pre-school" time.

Or...do what others have suggested and proactively go to the principal -- ie before another encounter. Go to the principal in the next day or two (make an appt if need be) and make your point. If you're a regular in there (in a good way), you will be heard. If you are a regular in there (in a not-good way), well, lol looks like you're without Pod.

As far as people judging others and what they should or shouldn't be doing before, during or after school, lol, gimme a f*in break...You shouldn't be tsk-tsk'ing anybody for their listening habits or anything else. You're not his/her parent so find another outlet for your misplaced condescension. If the original poster had said he wanted to do "evil teacher" harm, that's another story -- but the teacher (rightly or otherwise) took an iPod and (wrongly) used it. That's not appropriate. Neither is tsk-tsking another user herein for doing something that's neither antisocial nor harming anyone else. Give it a rest.

All I know is, if I had brought a portable music device to school when I WAS in school, it would have been confiscated because it was against the school rules. Cell phones are also not allowed in classes at my former school. I can't believe anyone is surprised that toys--and yeah, that's what it still is--aren't allowed in high school, which is more like jail than anything else.

Oh my god, I'm a teenager and have no rights. Yeah, what else is new?

Prudence, et al:

Sounds to me like some among us are not quite sure as to why a person cannot listen to music, privately, on his own (free, pre-school, post-school) time. I am of that view -- if (the original poster) wanted to kick back 20 minutes before he is required to be somewhere, I'm not really sure what the harm is/was in his/her listening to his/her iPod. Cellphones are disruptive and can be used (SMS, text messaging, etc.) for less than honorable uses, and they are disruptive, so banning cell phones is understandable. The ONLY reason I could see for a school to ban iPods (and, therefore, other music-related personal devices) is to avoid problems with theft (and, subsequently, possible violence and/or problems). But to suggest 'toys' should be banned sounds to me like one person's version of "Well, my high school experience sucked, so why shouldn't this person's?"

I'll put it another way: if said poster had a palmpilot and was using it to keep track of his assignments and the teacher grabbed it (to be returned later) because it had a solitaire cardgame on it (whether or not the game was being used at the time of confiscation), would that be 'okay?'

And pagers can be regarded as toys, because they have no redeeming school value; how about pens that light up or that have digital clocks and/or calculators therein? How about voice recorders? Tape recorders? How about keychains that have flashlights built into them?

My point is that as long as the student is acting responsibly and not behaving like a "prisoner," there's no legit reason for anyone to take his belongings away (temporarily or otherwise), let alone use them w/o his permission. To suggest that high school is a prison and, essentially, tough sh*t is sort of missing the point.

By "valid", do you mean those that agree with you?

Whatever you do, make sure you just dont leave things alone with your teacher and move on. Make sure to remind the teacher all the time about this horrible thing that happened to you. Make sure all your friends know about it and talk about it in school. Nothing will get a teacher or the faculty on your side faster then if you badger them, keep brining up how wronged you were, mention emotional distress and stealing a bunch of times to.

I realize that what the teacher did made you upset, but you have to realize there and times to fight for what you believe in and there are times when you have to see you really cant win. Fighting over the right to use an Ipod at school isnt one of those times you're going to win.

yes i got it back the same day.

Originally posted by BoogieMan
Prudence, et al:

Sounds to me like some among us are not quite sure as to why a person cannot listen to music, privately, on his own (free, pre-school, post-school) time. I am of that view -- if (the original poster) wanted to kick back 20 minutes before he is required to be somewhere, I'm not really sure what the harm is/was in his/her listening to his/her iPod. Cellphones are disruptive and can be used (SMS, text messaging, etc.) for less than honorable uses, and they are disruptive, so banning cell phones is understandable. The ONLY reason I could see for a school to ban iPods (and, therefore, other music-related personal devices) is to avoid problems with theft (and, subsequently, possible violence and/or problems). But to suggest 'toys' should be banned sounds to me like one person's version of "Well, my high school experience sucked, so why shouldn't this person's?"

I'll put it another way: if said poster had a palmpilot and was using it to keep track of his assignments and the teacher grabbed it (to be returned later) because it had a solitaire cardgame on it (whether or not the game was being used at the time of confiscation), would that be 'okay?'

And pagers can be regarded as toys, because they have no redeeming school value; how about pens that light up or that have digital clocks and/or calculators therein? How about voice recorders? Tape recorders? How about keychains that have flashlights built into them?

My point is that as long as the student is acting responsibly and not behaving like a "prisoner," there's no legit reason for anyone to take his belongings away (temporarily or otherwise), let alone use them w/o his permission. To suggest that high school is a prison and, essentially, tough sh*t is sort of missing the point.

Let's see. It isn't that I don't sympathise with the user, it's just that high school students really aren't of age and have no rights. Any high school student who thinks I'm wrong should make sure to go and attempt to vote for his school board members and superintendent, and see what I mean.

There may not actually be any harm in the actions, but they may well be against the posted rules (which in my hs at least we had to sign a paper, cosigned by parent, to the effect that we understood the handbook) The handbook may prohibit electronic devices including noisemakers (which have a potentiality of disrupting classes by noise, fights, stealing--which the school would be liable for, etcetc) such as iPods, cell phones, recording devices, and a lot of other stuff you've named. For example, flashlights can be disruptive during lecture. Pagers make noise that can be disruptive--can also be used to transmit information that could contribute to cheating. ALL of these are worst-case scenarios but that's how administrators think. The rules have to be harsh because there are always some people stretching them.

My high school experience didn't suck. It was also several years ago, and electronic toys were a good deal less popular. Since several of my then-friends are now instructors in the same area I've been kept abreast of the rules that have developed with emerging technology, and they are consistently prohibited.

I'm not at all trying to be confrontational, although I admit I was a bit tongue-in-cheek earlier. But I am trying to present another view of the situation.

Originally posted by Sypher
*Shrugs* some teachers aren't bothered about people listening to music in class while we're doing individual work.

really??! blimey... that's cool. when i were a lad... :)

I think it's maybe because we've started revision and school ends in a week.. they've all gotten a lot more laid back. Yeh Calc... words cannot describe how glad I am of my narrow escape from.. private school *shudders*

Originally posted by Calculus
haha. I just can't wait until college/uni.

Count me in on that proposal!

i too await college and a fast internet connection!!!

but as for iPods, know the teacher, i use it all the time right in front of my accounting teacher and often walk own the halls with it but in calculus......think again

as long as its in your pocket jsut liek with calc jsut have a cheap mp3 player in there and if they ask for it hand them that...teachers arent as smart as your think...no offence to the smart ones!

or have mommy and daddy buy you a pair of shures or upper lever personal earbuds that you can hide in your bush of a hair cut, if that applies to you!

good luck and happy listening!

my study hall teacher always yells at me BTW but i say "audio book again!!!!!

never has failed me!

Yeah I have had teachers try to take my iPod before and it's a 20 GB and it was after school also. This one time a teacher walked by me and then came back and sayed you with the head phones give me your walkman (By the way what is with teachers calling it a walkman?), I turned around and looked at her and I was all "First it's not a walkman it's a iPod, 2nd I am not handing over a $300.00 device after school when they are aloud and I am about to leave." She asked for my name but I wouldn't give it to her I just left. :cool: The principal talked to me the next day and gave me a ASD but she's cool and knows I love music. So yeah that's my story Latter guys.

Well at my school [ i finished there 2 years ago tho ] the rule was something like "Walkmans are not permitted at the College or College Functions". Back then i had a MiniDisc player. I normally just listened to it during break times, most of the teachers didnt really seem to care.

Hah I think most teachers are happy to let me listen to music in class because it keeps me from talking constantly.

Now, as a History TA at my University, I do understand that people should be paying attention in class. Freshman are such horrible writers and not very good at critical thinking, I wonder what they did in high school!

I hear ya' loud and clear. I'm a sophomore in college now, and after taking the basic beginning composition class last year, I realized just how bad freshman are with simple grammatical mistakes. I'm not a great writer myself, but while reviewing papers, I wondered how some of these people passed English their freshman year of high school!

For those giving him crap about having his iPod with him, lighten up. While it wasn't the brightest thing to have it or the headphones/earbuds visible in school at all, keep in mind, he doesn't get magically teleported to and from school, and I'm sure her gets to enjoy his iPod quite nicely on the way in and out.

That's what I did with my Walkman in middle school, and my discman in high school and college.

haha right. not me but there probably are some people at my school that might srangle themselves with the headphone cord.

well I think it's ADORABLE!!!!! But totaly wrong YOU SHOULD KICK HER LITTLE WHITE ###!!!!!!!(fool).

I didnt have my iPod when still in normal lesson but since we have started doing exams and havin some revision classes i have bein taking the iPod and my inMotions with me and i put it on whilst where revising, there's not many of us only those who can be bothered, in fact only 2 turned up the other day.
But anyway my maths teacher is now totally in love with the iPod and cant get over having that many songs in your pocket.
Oh and lukily my music got a decent reception, managed to find something we could all agree on.

Damn your schools suck, some of my teachers not only let me listen to my ipod durring class but durring tests :p

Originally posted by Sypher
^ Voluntary revision classes? Haha.. no wonder only a few people can be bothered.

Theres always a few evil teachers that want to steal iPods :)
Me and my friend got sent out of one of our lessons.. and in the corrider my iPod turned on accidently.. when its turned up to full volume its really very audible in a silent enviroment. Perhaps because I volume boosted it too much.. but yeh.. the infamous psycho R.E teacher came and had a go at us.. she's scary and very wierd.. lol

PE teachers are usually lesbo's. 75% becuase u cant have a girl or else if ur tired she will be ohh sit down la la la.....

^ I did.. but not at school, was just walking down the street. Damn those white headphones lol.
But yeh, a big group of boys (the usual "yobs") came up and tried to take it off me, I argued with them for a bit then when it was obvious they werent gonna go away I shoved past them and sprinted off. Luckily I do athletics.. but I couldnt have fought them anyway.. :(

rjtedge which school are you at?
Also we are allowed to have laptops at our school so i dont even need 2 risk bringing my iPod to school.
I can just plug in my headphones - the teacher can take the headphones but cant take your laptop becuase you 'have all your schoolwork on it' hehem. ;)

I'm lucky that I attend a very lax school...I've seen people with blue hair, shoeless, and carrying a laptop before. My school doesn't care...the assistant principal had orange hair for a while.

For some reason, I've never seen anyone with an iPod before...I might have to fix that.

Can't wait either

my school has no made a rule about ipods or cell phones. ok so i was listen to my ipod before a clas when i got to my class i put it into my bookbag, but forgot to put it into sleep mode and put the hold on. so she told me i can turn it off. so i did. then the bell ring as i took it out she took it.
another story
my friend opened his ipod and put drugs in it

I like the way my friend put drugs in his ipod and it still plays music it is cool
the
drugpod

I don't bring mine to school very much, but one of the teachers has an original 10gb iPod that he always has wit him. Whenever we have him, he'll hook it up to speakers and blast it, or offer to hook up one of our iPods. I actually had a 30 minute argment with this teacher about whether his iPod was 1G or 2G. If it has a actual moving scroll wheel and its 10gb, its 1G right? I've always thought of 1G as mechanical wheel, 2G as touch wheel but he claims I'm wrong...

that is a rule for me school no headphones afetr 8.00 or before 3.10, i would like it to be able durning lunch, break. My school starts at 8.25 so i see no reason we can not use them frrom 8- 8.25.

Y'know what? Screw teachers, tell them it has important work on it. Bang, iPod returned.