Advice please?

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Hello all. In need of some advice please?
So my teenage son recently got into a scuffle outside of school with another boy from his school according to accounts received from the school it has been an ongoing feud so both boys got into a scuffle ( was nothing serious was literally a silly scuffle there both 13yrs old) during the scuffle my son threw this boys phone away, from what I have been told by the school it is a simple brick phone so therefore the mother of this child is asking for compensation, which I do believe is fair...what my problem is, is that my sons mobile phone was recently stolen from him whilst he was on the school grounds and the school were uninterested and told me that my son should have taken better care of the phone..dilemma: school have now contacted me to say the mother is requesting £50 for the mobile and £10 for the mobile phone credit..I’m questioning straight away can the mother not recover the cost of the credit via the mobile phone company? And can I not ask for a receipt as proof for the lost phone as it was described as a brick phone which cannot even be used for social media apps etc...would I be unreasonable to make these requests before parting with any cash?

Your son threw the other boys phone away. I think I would be delighted it was only £60.

What Nick said.

Your son is in the wrong. Be happy it's only £60

£60 seems very reasonable indeed. Did your ds not go and look for the phone though? If it's one of the rugged old school types, it might still be fine?

From what I understand both boys were taken back to look for the phone but unfortunately neither one were able to remember exactly where the phone was thrown.

So pay for a replacement. The receipt isn’t relevant, they may have lost it, been second hand etc and the money is to put him back to the same position he was in before your son threw it away.

Agreed.

I taught a boy who had the new iPhone worth £1k. Be grateful your son didnt get jnto a scuffle with him.

No school will ever take responsibility for phones that are lost. That's why we strongly advise parents not to send them in with the latest gadgets.

And btw your boy was fighting. That is something serious, calling it a scuffle doesnt make it less serious. He also vandalised the boy's property.

I called it a scuffle as that is what it was? It was also described to me as a scuffle...I’m well aware of my sons wrong doing I was simply asking for outside opinions.

AIBU isn't what it was. Op comes on with a situation, posters give their measured opinion based on the facts given, and the op agrees.
This is a plant, surely? No AIBU ended so neatly...

Your son lost his phone, his fault not the school's. Your son threw the other boys phone away, again your son's fault. Replace it and take the money back from his pocket money over a period of time. He needs to learn responsibility. How much the original phone cost or if it was second hand is irrelevant as they now need to replace it.

Agreed to all the above...just wanted some outside opinions. Thank you all.

Yes but a scuffle is essentially a fight. I guess if the school used the term they were also playing it down perhaps because they felt it was six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Perhaps they were. Both parties were in the wrong my son more so. Was just looking for some outside opinions...message received.