Parent Reports Teacher For Accidentally Taking Her Son's Confiscated Phone Home With Her And Breaking It

We've all probably had our phone confiscated at some point, but none of us ever thought this would happen.

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• November 10, 2022

You've probably been there whether you were caught texting in class, your phone went off, you were playing games, or some other scenario that got your phone confiscated in middle or high school. It's common practice for teachers to take away students' phones when they've been caught with them out, considering you're not supposed to have them out.

However, things like this can happen which makes us wonder about how well this "punishment" is. With all this being said, we're here to share another Reddit post on the AITA thread.

A parent comes in with a question about how they handled a situation where a teacher accidentally got her son's phone broken. Ultimately they ended up reporting the teacher, but now they're wondering if that was the right or wrong choice in this situation.

The parent explains the whole story of what happened, how it was handled, and what the issue is now. Looking at these stories is interesting because you get to see everyone's perspective, which is exactly why the person posted it on Reddit in the first place.

So, if you're into this kind of thing and are looking to entertain yourself with a Reddit post worth reading, then you're in luck.

This is the beginning of the story where the parents comes on Reddit to tell everyone what happened.

Here is what happened with the teacher and how she took it home.

Here is how things went in terms of after the parents contacted the school.

Then the parent found out that the teacher was talking about the incident.

Here's the first comment where they declared that they're NTA in this situation.

This is also true though since the teacher had a lot of misfortunate events.

We aren't sure what her reasoning for this was, but it's definitely something to keep in mind.

This is kind of reasonable though. We all make mistakes but it should have at least never ended up in her toddler's hand.

Reaching out to the school was actually the right protocol because of this reason right here.

This is true because you never really know if they'll follow through and it was totally their fault.

It's very important for teachers who are confiscating phones to keep them in a safe space.

Very simply put but this sounds about right.

Some people had a few questions about further information.

This is true too. It's best to cover all your grounds in case she doesn't end up paying for it.

The documentation is one of the parts of this that were necessary.

People had a lot of different opinions on the teacher and her intents.

This is also extremely important as well because technically it is on the school as well.

This is one of the few comments that basically said that they were TA and that the teacher did her part.

People were quite confused on why her toddler even had the phone in the first place.

Yep, this one right here.

This scenario had a lot of different opinions on it and I think a lot of it has to do with what they expected the teacher to do in that situation. Ultimately, as long as everyone did their part and the phone is taken care of then there shouldn't be many other issues.

What would you have done in this situation and what is your opinion on this?

Daphnie