Pupils allegedly torch Durban school over confiscated cellphones

[Gyre]

Police regularly search schools for drugs and weapons. Welcome to reality.

But not phones, nor are they there to enforce school rules. Here is your morning coffee.

 

[Gyre]

The school has got a policy that cell phones are not allowed. They are allowed to confiscate the phones. On this day 400 little criminals in training decided to FU this policy. The school asked the police to keep it safe for logistical reasons. Why the hell are you continuing like a speared pig? Respect for the law starts at home and at school. This should be a lesson for these little criminals in training.

The "school" is the little criminal den that breeds these criminals, you have no issues with the "little criminals" and I have no issue with the glorified crime syndicate that was burned down. Guess we both just need to go back to no giving a **** about the kids or the building.

 

[Vrotappel]

But not phones, nor are they there to enforce school rules. Here is your morning coffee.

So the Police were looking for contraband and the school was standing next to them and taking the phones.

Stop cheering for little criminals please. It is time that respect for rules and law be ingrained in our society.

Don't try and justify the acts of these little criminals. You are destroying this country by doing so.

 

[Vrotappel]

The "school" is the little criminal den that breeds these criminals, you have no issues with the "little criminals" and I have no issue with the glorified crime syndicate that was burned down. Guess we both just need to go back to no giving a **** about the kids or the building.

You are one of those freedom before education types. It shows.

 

[Gyre]

You are one of those freedom before education types. It shows.

Maybe you should go to this school and get an education, you don't seem to know very much

 

[Gyre]

So the Police were looking for contraband and the school was standing next to them and taking the phones.

Stop cheering for little criminals please. It is time that respect for rules and law be ingrained in our society.

Don't try and justify the acts of these little criminals. You are destroying this country by doing so.

Maybe if you have a **** about them before they burnt classes down, they wouldn't be set on their way to becoming little criminals?

Nobody is cheering them on, just finding it hard to find sympathy in my field of ****s to give

 

[PrimeSteak]

So the Police were looking for contraband and the school was standing next to them and taking the phones.

It's fine if they found and confiscated contraband tho. But last I checked it's not a criminal or civil offence to have your phone at school... Perhaps against school rules.

So the school overstepped a line by having the police take the phones away as if it is a crime to have a phone at school...

Stop cheering for little criminals please. It is time that respect for rules and law be ingrained in our society.

Who in this thread has exactly been cheering for the kids specifically? So far, mostly everyone has agreed that what the kids did was wrong, however the disagreement comes in that the response by the school/police over the phones was uncalled for.

Don't try and justify the acts of these little criminals. You are destroying this country by doing so.

The thing is in this case both sides are wrong. The school was wrong in sending the phones away to the police for no valid reason other than "no space lmao", the children were even more in the wrong by burning down the school.

 

[wbot]

I have no issue with the glorified crime syndicate that was burned down.

Wow. Just wow.

 

[kolaval]

The "school" is the little criminal den that breeds these criminals, you have no issues with the "little criminals" and I have no issue with the glorified crime syndicate that was burned down.

And now the little criminals and the crime syndicate have disappeared?
Also our tax money is used to build a new one.

 

[Moosedrool]

Maybe if you have a **** about them before they burnt classes down, they wouldn't be set on their way to becoming little criminals?

Nobody is cheering them on, just finding it hard to find sympathy in my field of ****s to give

I can't see how you can sympathise with children acting this way when teachers confiscate their cell phones.

This happens in every respectable highschool where children don't follow the rules.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

The police are not your bank safe. Anything they take has to have a clear chain of custody and can only be taken with a view to a criminal matter. This is civil.
BUT the police involvement on the phones was an overreach. Weapons/Drugs yes as they involve criminal code.

Which Law?

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I can't see how you can sympathise with children acting this way when teachers confiscate their cell phones.

This happens in every respectable highschool where children don't follow the rules.

Wasn't Gyre on of those that went apoplectic when that police van tipped over, during the Farm Murder unrest incident?

 

[Supervan II]

I can't see how you can sympathise with children acting this way when teachers confiscate their cell phones.

This happens in every respectable highschool where children don't follow the rules.

These little fcukers clearly don't respect anything, as can be deduced from their actions.

 

[Kosmik]

Which Law?

The law. Drugs under drug enforcement and same with weapons. They are not empowered to just seize assets as they please, there are strict regulations around it.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

The law. Drugs under drug enforcement and same with weapons. They are not empowered to just seize assets as they please, there are strict regulations around it.

Which law?

Laws have names and numbers etc. "the law" doesn't count...then is it's merely anecdotal.

 

[Gyre]

I can't see how you can sympathise with children acting this way when teachers confiscate their cell phones.

This happens in every respectable highschool where children don't follow the rules.

This ISN'T a respectable high school, or do respectful high schools often have sting operations to collect drugs and weapons?

Again, how many children? All of them? Just so we can be on the same page of where our frustration lies?

 

[Gyre]

Wasn't Gyre on of those that went apoplectic when that police van tipped over, during the Farm Murder unrest incident?

Dutch keyboard broken already? Pro-tip: Your points are much stronger if people know what the **** you are actually trying to say.

 

[Moosedrool]

This ISN'T a respectable high school, or do respectful high schools often have sting operations to collect drugs and weapons?

Again, how many children? All of them? Just so we can be on the same page of where our frustration lies?

Drug and weapon searches happens. Happened in my highschool as well and then another sole weapon search after skyfskiet was banned as a sport. This is nothing new. The teachers here probably just requested the police to use this opportunity to collect the cell phones as well.

When this stuff happens we didn't burn the school down.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Dutch keyboard broken already? Pro-tip: Your points are much stronger if people know what the **** you are actually trying to say.

What is a Dutch KB?

You're the only one too thick to get the point...but this is just your SOP...deflect and pretzel.

 

[Gyre]

Drug and weapon searches happens. Happened in my highschool as well and then another sole weapon search after skyfskiet was banned as a sport. This is nothing new. The teachers here probably just requested the police to use this opportunity to collect the cell phones as well.

When this stuff happens we didn't burn the school down.

I can't see how you can sympathize with a school when they throw a kids future away - and actually having BEEN to this school to implement extra classes for maths, I know how **** it is. Let's cut the kids and school staff out of this - yes, i'm SAD a beautiful, useful building got destroyed as a result of violent kids and useless adults. That is where my sympathy ends.

It's a pity that they couldn't turn this school into something more, and it's sad that a lot of kids, long before the fire, still wouldn't have had a future or a decent education. Perhaps where you think i'm excusing or sympathizing, I am more frustrated that a lot of you only really care about this issue now, or faux care about it because it involved property damage in some way.

Now everyone can do the usual useless chirping of "they should vote properly", " they shouldn't have kids they can't afford", "this is why apartheid existed", it's helping sooooo much. And if people aren't tryng to be helpful, i recommend they get their panties in less of a knot at other opinions