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Originally Posted by Locke
Its supervision, it isnt parenting.
If your kid is stupid enough to set the sprinklers off I think that is outside of the realm of normal non-parental supervision.
Kids, especially at 14, should know better than to set off the sprinklers, pull the fire alarm, etc.
Mommy and Daddy have to teach little Timmy how not to be a complete moron.
What do people expect from teachers 'supervising?' Yeah, they're watching your kid at school so he doesnt get hit by a bus or run away and join the circus on their time.
They're not there to nanny your kid, teach them how to go potty and proper manners on how to eat or whatever.
I think of supervision in schools as: "Your child will be returned to you at the end of the day in more or less the same condition you dropped them off in."
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Haha, well here the kid came home in more or less the same condition I guess, along with a $50k debt.
I just think this was a 'prank' that somehow morphed into something totally unforeseen. The kid was locking a lock to a sprinkler. Yeah, not brilliant, but he didn't seem to be holding a lighter under the sprinkler in hopes of it going off.
I forget how exactly it happened but me and few friends shattered the glass on a trophy cabinet in junior high. We were bringing in pit mats from outside and while a couple guys were carrying them, others of us thought we would jump into them. It was just us screwing around, but the trophy case bore the brunt of that stupidity. I can't remember how much it cost, but my parents and the others paid for the repairs/replacement. I can't remember, but I probably paid personally knowing how I was brought up. Did it teach me anything? No. I mean we were being dumb in hindsight, and shouldn't have done that. Then again it was funny to us at the time and we had no idea we would actually break anything.