Not to let ds2 take my iPad to school?

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He is doing Advanced Music, and the teacher has shown them an iPad app that will help them compose a piece of music (homework, maybe coursework), and ds2 wants to use it - but he thinks he would have to take it into school, to send the work to the teacher. I'm ok with him using it at home, but really not ok about him taking it into school - a) I don't want to be without it all day, and b) I don't think it is a safe place to take an expensive piece of kit.

AIBU to say he can use this app on my iPad if he can do it at home and email it to his teacher, but that I won't be allowing him to take the iPad into school?

YANBU - it wouldn't come back in one piece!

No, under no circumstances. I actually think the school would discourage it, as they do with expensive phones, mp3 players etc.

No YANBU.
For both the reasons you stated and also i would be worried that another child may see him with the ipad and target him to be 'mugged'. That would be my main reason, his safety !

I wouldn't, if I had one that is. Too risky.

Fried I am liking your last sentence somehow. It looks a bit Scandinavian.

or maybe more stig of the dump

YANBU! If the app will help them compose a piece of music presumably that can then be emailed or at the worst copied onto manuscript and handed in.

YANBU at all if the school thinks it would help for his music then they should provide Ipads at school ,

DD1 did advanced higher music production and she was told a macbook would help I said erm pfft the school let them borrow theirs

absolutely no way

I wouldn't let him take it in either.
Can't the music be transferred to a flash drive and taken for the teacher that way?

I've had a look, and I think he can put it onto an iPod, so that's one option.

Nice to know that, in this instance at least, I am not the World's Most Unreasonable Mother!

How old is he?

If advanced is sixth form then he should be fine to look after it surely?

However as it is yours and you wouldn't have it all day - yanbu

Just reading the title made me hold my iPad a little tighter! YANBU, don't let it out of your grasp!

He's 17, Hulababy, but not the most careful of boys.

@ chirp chirp - that was exactly my reaction!

Good grief - are you mad? Of course he shouldn't take it into school, it's bound to get broken -which then opens up sorts of blame stuff. The answer is NO - as parents we are allowed to say No.

I did laugh at the thought of mumsnetters clutching Ipads too their bosums

DD used to take stuff between the home pc her ipod and school