Stolen iPad

3ndahalfof6 · 19-09-2012 07:21PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Non uniform day. €1 per child to participate. Kids freakin love non uniform days.

But who will look after the fallout 9mts later.

Pottler · 19-09-2012 07:21PM

That'll speed her up learning english. iCrutch.

Grayditch · 19-09-2012 07:21PM

Can't she knock up another one in a half hour?

I kid, I kid.

N64 · 19-09-2012 07:26PM

krudler wrote: »

ha, i love that the ad on the bottom of the page is to win an ipad, get entering OP

You don't use adblock plus?

Gyalist · 19-09-2012 07:55PM

My name is URL wrote: »

frozenfrozen wrote: »

She lives with an Irish family, and comes to school here to learn English / do the leaving cert. And she's in 1st year so about 13 is my guess.

Is this usual? I don't want to derail the thread, but I've never heard of a kid coming over from Korea or wherever else without their family, at 12-13 years of age, to spend 6 years here learning English and doing the leaving cert. That sounds very odd to me.. in fact I'd find that more upsetting than the girl having her iPad stolen.

I don't see what's so strange about it. In the last decade or so I've had 4 Japanese students who did their TY work experience with us. They were at school in Sutton and had come here at 13 to be educated through English. All stayed and sat the LC here as well.

I know someone who came here from Trinidad & Tobago in the early 1960s to go to a convent school when she was six. Luckily she had two older siblings here as well.

I know kids whose parents sent them to board at Rathdown when they were quite young. At Headfort in Meath they accept them from seven.

At boarding schools like St. Columba's and Alexandra College you'll meet kids who were sent here at 12/13 to begin their secondary education.

Some friends of mine were the legal guardians of a young Iranian boy who came here to go to school back in the late 80s. He was one of the top LC students in the country despite arriving here four years previously not knowing a word of English.

That you may not have met anyone in those circumstances does not mean that it does not happen far more than you are aware.

Wee Willy Harris · 19-09-2012 08:03PM

If iPad mini becomes a reality, I might steal that

punchdrunk · 19-09-2012 08:05PM

in my days in secondary school if so much as a pencil case went missing the classes would grind to a halt until it was found (show me a teacher who doesn't relish a good mystery??)

how in the name of god does an ipad go amiss on school grounds and the school not get to the bottom of it?

3ndahalfof6 · 19-09-2012 08:08PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

in my days in secondary school if so much as a pencil case went missing the classes would grind to a halt until it was found (show me a teacher who doesn't relish a good mystery??)

how in the name of god does an ipad go amiss on school grounds and the school not get to the bottom of it?

It was Willie.

frozenfrozen · 19-09-2012 08:11PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

in my days in secondary school if so much as a pencil case went missing the classes would grind to a halt until it was found (show me a teacher who doesn't relish a good mystery??)

how in the name of god does an ipad go amiss on school grounds and the school not get to the bottom of it?

In fairness they did try. During the next period (it went missing over break) they delayed everyone 10 minutes in each room while teachers went around and told everyone that it's missing and that they want it returned etc etc, and during that time a teacher later told me that they were walking around all the lockers with an iphone to see if they could find the ipads bluetooth(if it was on....), and they looked to see if it was connected to the school network, which it mustn't have been.

punchdrunk · 19-09-2012 08:16PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

In fairness they did try. During the next period (it went missing over break) they delayed everyone 10 minutes in each room while teachers went around and told everyone that it's missing and that they want it returned etc etc, and during that time a teacher later told me that they were walking around all the lockers with an iphone to see if they could find the ipads bluetooth(if it was on....), and they looked to see if it was connected to the school network, which it mustn't have been.

can't a school search lockers and bags anymore?

Biggins · 19-09-2012 08:19PM

Wee Willy Harris wrote: »

If iPad mini becomes a reality, I might steal that

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/ipad-mini-release-date-news-and-rumours-1076821

Possibly Christmas?

holystungun9 · 19-09-2012 08:20PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Non uniform day. €1 per child to participate. Kids freakin love non uniform days.

Word from the wise. Better to be working in the school or have a child going there before you start petitioning for a non uniform day. Recently I had been, ahem, relocated to a new area. I ducked and dived the 500 metres to the nearest school with my clip board and suggestions.
I'm going to be relocated again in the next week. :mad:

3ndahalfof6 · 19-09-2012 08:20PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

can't a school search lockers and bags anymore?

Their not all bad looking, I know im going to get punished, but I could not help myself.

keith16 · 19-09-2012 09:14PM

Wee Willy Harris wrote: »

If iPad mini becomes a reality, I might steal that

Is that not just....an i-phone?

kowloon · 19-09-2012 09:15PM

Renn wrote: »

And I love the idea that it must be an ipad that is bought.

I think it has become a bit like 'Hoover'. People who see a tablet just call it an 'iPad' not knowing what brand it actually is. It leads to people walking into a shop and asking for an ipad when they could have bought something else that better suits their needs.
No salesperson, particularly someone getting commission, is going to suggest a cheaper more suitable alternative.

I'm sure if the girl needs a tablet so badly she'll be more than happy to get anything that'll do the job, even if it isn't quite as fashionable.

19-09-2012 09:25PM

keith16 wrote: »

Is that not just....an i-phone?

iTouch

That's a product, not a confession

kowloon · 19-09-2012 09:27PM

You're a mod now, can't be going around getting the plebs excited.

19-09-2012 09:29PM

What? That wasn't in my contract?

keith16 · 19-09-2012 09:33PM

kowloon wrote: »

You're a mod now, can't be going around getting the plebs excited.

HEY....I wasn't excited...

ok I was a bit

19-09-2012 09:34PM

keith16 wrote: »

HEY....I wasn't excited...

ok I was a bit

You calling yourself a pleb?

JuliusCaesar · 19-09-2012 09:40PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Is this usual? I don't want to derail the thread, but I've never heard of a kid coming over from Korea or wherever else without their family, at 12-13 years of age, to spend 6 years here learning English and doing the leaving cert.

Yes, there used to be a good few Korean kids attending the same school as my child. They stayed with Irish families and often were 're-named' with names easier for Irish people to pronounce....often names like Sinead :rolleyes:.

From my perspective it seemed very cruel to their kids, especially as they were so young, but from theirs it was a huge advantage for their children. Sometimes the kids were placed with retired couples, so it can't always be fun for them - but with Skype and email, it's easier than it used to be.

keith16 · 19-09-2012 09:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

You calling yourself a pleb?

DAT EES THE JOKE

anyway, what about this poor South Korean girl? Surely her parents have a press load of i-pads back home?

keith16 · 19-09-2012 09:44PM

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Yes, there used to be a good few Korean kids attending the same school as my child. They stayed with Irish families and often were 're-named' with names easier for Irish people to pronounce....often names like Sinead :rolleyes:.

From my perspective it seemed very cruel to their kids, especially as they were so young, but from theirs it was a huge advantage for their children. Sometimes the kids were placed with retired couples, so it can't always be fun for them - but with Skype and email, it's easier than it used to be.

This happens a lot in large corporations that have Asian operations. The business language is English, and, so I've heard, the worker bees want to have "Western" names and often pick the names themselves.

I knew one bloke who's real name was Kim Po Something or other, but insisted we call him Noel :pac:

phasers · 19-09-2012 09:55PM

speaking from the point of view of a 13 year old, if I found out my school was using my hard earned pocket money to buy some other kid in the school an ipad i'd be pretty pissed off. If she can't look after it she shouldn't have one.

Buy her an android tablet yourself if you feel so bad for her.

Icepick · 19-09-2012 09:57PM

phasers wrote: »

If she can't look after it she shouldn't have one.

:rolleyes:

jonon9 · 19-09-2012 10:04PM

That reminds me a secondary school in Ennis introduced a new thing in this year that was passed by the 1st year students's parents that all 1st yrs were to have iPad 3 believe it or not its true I was disgusted by this, 600 quid for an iPad and 350 quid for the books that go on it, I remember talking to some parents that voted against it and they were outraged by this say they couldn't even afford that price. now I'm a techy guy but I honestly think this is ridiculous
it might be somewhat acceptable for 3 to 5 yr but not 1st yrs

frozenfrozen · 19-09-2012 10:06PM

phasers wrote: »

speaking from the point of view of a 13 year old, if I found out my school was using my hard earned pocket money to buy some other kid in the school an ipad i'd be pretty pissed off. If she can't look after it she shouldn't have one.

Buy her an android tablet yourself if you feel so bad for her.

It would be for people who want to help. It's not buying someone an ipad as a gift, it's replacing an ipad which was stolen in school

If you hear of someone's car being stolen do you say the same thing? Or their house broken into?
It was stolen, she wasn't using it as a frisbee and accidentally threw it too far

phasers · 19-09-2012 10:09PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

It would be for people who want to help. It's not buying someone an ipad as a gift, it's replacing an ipad which was stolen in school

If you hear of someone's car being stolen do you say the same thing? Or their house broken into?
It was stolen, she wasn't using it as a frisbee and accidentally threw it too far

It was breaktime during school hours, she obviously wasn't minding it. Unless she was held up at gunpoint or something...

I am totally for getting the girl a replacement, I'm just trying to put across the reaction this idea might get.

Mr. CooL ICE · 19-09-2012 10:11PM

I've known Chinese people called Ken, Gavin, Elaine, Stephen, Chloe, etc, and trust me, they were nothing like their actual names.

I told them that if I was to call them by a fake anglicised name, they were to call me by a fake mandarinised name. From that point on, I was known as LordXiǎoqiáng

frozenfrozen · 19-09-2012 10:14PM

phasers wrote: »

It was breaktime during school hours, she obviously wasn't minding it. Unless she was held up at gunpoint or something...

I am totally for getting the girl a replacement, I'm just trying to put across the reaction this idea might get.

I know where you're coming from. Yeah, something like this would never happen if she hadn't taken her eyes off it, whatever way it was stolen, but at the same time she must have either had it in her locker or bag or on her person.
But that's not really the point. I hope people will feel like they're helping someone rather than buying someone a gift.

I wrote a letter for the principal just saying where I stand on the issue and that a lot of other people feel that something needs to be done to replace it, just so they don't sweep the incident under the rug and pretend it never happened

Stolen iPad

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