Trust

    One of the girls at school has lost her iPhone. It went missing at school. This means that it has been picked up by someone but instead of turning it in, he or she has kept it. This student was told by her parents not to bring the iPhone to school but she did and now it is gone. Her mother is temporarily working back east while the father is keeping things together here, working as well as looking after three school age children. The iPhone was a way for this young girl to keep in touch with her mother; little notes back and forth to stay close and connected.
    This feels awful to me. In a school of less-than-100, an incident of this type is huge. It would seem to me that all the kids would be looking at each other differently--- I know that I am looking at everyone there in a new way. It seems inconceivable that anyone could feel okay about keeping someone's phone--- especially someone you know. At our school everyone pretty well knows everyone.
    I wish that we could do something that would provide everyone with a happy ending: the girl gets her phone back, the thief stays anonymous but learns a valuable, life-changing lesson that stays with him or her forever and our little school goes back to being the safe, caring place that it has always striven to be. I am a dreamer, I know....unfortunately, I am a dreamer.