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Teacher 'donated' Dds money!

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WoWoWorrier · 13/10/2017 13:55

My daughter has a knack for 'finding pennies'. She is 8. She collects the 5ps/10ps she finds for sweeties and the 1ps and 2ps go in a piggy bank until it's full. She find a them outside on the floor.

On the way to school yesterday she was saying that she wanted a mini figit spinner from the machine outside our local newsagents.
She had been super good this week and I was already planning on giving her £2 as a reward but she said 'I might find a pound!' So to humour her 'abilities' I dropped a pound a few minutes later and she spotted it.

She was super excited.

When I picked her up from school she was quiet and when we got near the ship I asked her if she wanted to get her toy she told me she had been telling her friend she had found a pound on the way to school and the teacher said it wasn't hers to spend and told her to put it in the classroom charity collection box!!

Aibu to demand it back and be quite pissed off?

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Willow2017 · 13/10/2017 19:11

Pen
Because I'm that case she should have kept it until op collected the child and told her about it then. She had no right to take it then do whatever she wanted to with it.

Iwantamarshmallow · 13/10/2017 19:12

I don't think the teacher had any right to take the pound away and I think dropping it for her to find was sweet. However recently a woman was prosecuted for keeping a £20 note she found in a shop. Maybe the teacher was just trying prepare her for this kind of thing in the future.

lynmilne65 · 13/10/2017 19:15

I like the idea of a bike bath 😁

Ta1kinPeece · 13/10/2017 19:17

marshmallow
However recently a woman was prosecuted for keeping a £20 note she found in a shop
There is a MAHOOSIVE difference between
a £20 note in a shop
and a £1 coin on a path outdoors

GoldenFleck · 13/10/2017 19:19

The teacher was trying to teach her that you can't keep money that you find. The fact that it was a £1 coin is irrelevant. She was teaching her to consider that somebody might be looking for it and that it might be important to some one. Maybe instead of rhino-ing into the school, demanding the £1 back, you could reward your child with another £1 for being thoughtful and handing the lost coin over. That way if she does find a stash of money of whatever amount that someone needs, her first reaction will be to try and locate the owner.

GoldenFleck · 13/10/2017 19:19

Finders=keepers is a terrible lesson to teach her

Pengggwn · 13/10/2017 19:20

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flutterby12 · 13/10/2017 19:24

Yanbu. The teacher was.

SoNouveau · 13/10/2017 19:30

Finders=keepers is a terrible lesson to teach her

Unless it's a wallet or a purse, it was a fucking quid.
A sense of perspective is helpful

Bore off.

Nocabbageinmyeye · 13/10/2017 19:32

We were always told if we found a penney to spit on it and throw it over our left shoulder

grannytomine · 13/10/2017 19:32

I know someone who has a criminal record because they kept some money they found so it is a good lesson. I can't imagine anyone getting prosecuted for £1 but where is the limit? My husband found an envelope with thousands in it, he was pretty sure who had dropped it and when he tried to ask them about it they were really nasty and marched off. They obviously realised what had happened and came back and asked if he had found it. He asked how much, what was it in etc and it was obviously their''s. They didn't even say thank you.

SoNouveau · 13/10/2017 19:35

What do you all do if you find a quid in your shopping trolley slot?
I give mine to the Big Issue seller.

Toadinthehole · 13/10/2017 19:36

It seems a bit much to bring law into it. Fwiw though "finders keepers" is a thing.

Besides the point though as it was given to the child as a gift. Just ask for the bloody thing back if it Matt's that much.

I think it was officious of the teacher to take it.

grannytomine · 13/10/2017 19:38

My friend should have told the judge that it was finders keepers, saved him a criminal record.

schoolgaterebel · 13/10/2017 19:40

YANBU

I’d ask for it back.

lynmilne65 · 13/10/2017 19:47

FFS

AndrewJames · 13/10/2017 19:49

The teacher was trying to teach her that you can't keep money that you find

She shouldn't have, because you can keep money that you find.

Pengggwn · 13/10/2017 19:49

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AndrewJames · 13/10/2017 19:51

She was trying to do her job and teach a child a lesson about honesty and integrity

By taking something that did not belong to her? What kind of a lesson is that? "I think you shouldn't have this so I'm going to take it from you" is not a lesson for a child about honesty or integrity, it's a lesson that people in a position of power can take from you and you can do nothing about it.
I don't want teachers telling my children that.

AndrewJames · 13/10/2017 19:51

The law isn't on your side there

Actually it is, for a coin in the street.

SoNouveau · 13/10/2017 19:52

You're right grannytomine, I expect that was his defence anyway.

He could've bunged the Judge a quid.

Ta1kinPeece · 13/10/2017 19:52

pengg
The law isn't on your side there.
Law quote for a coin in a public place please ...........

glitterlips1 · 13/10/2017 19:53

Whether the teacher can or can't condone finders keepers it has NOTHING to do with her!

Pengggwn · 13/10/2017 19:56

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