Read a notice at the boys' school today. A Nintendo GameBoy was lost and a reward has been offered to anyone who returns it or provides information on the whereabouts of it.

Last Wednesday, Nolan's shoes went missing in school, then mysterious appeared in the middle of the hallway a couple of days later. I did talk to the school secretary about it. Not demanding an investigation. Just to make enquiry on where I could possibly find missing items. As expected, the response was something like: we can't really do anything about it, except to keep an eye out for the shoes, in case they show up. Okay. It a pair of $15 Walmart shoes. However, the fact that someone would take them, knowing that a fellow student needed their shoes to get home, annoyed me.

We made a special trip to town to buy Nolan another pair of shoes only for him to wear them to school for one day before his old shoes(which was actually quite new, by the way) showed up. When I reported to the school that we had got the shoes back, the reponse was the same: we can't really do anything about it. However, a confession was made: similar incidences have occurred before; probably just some mischievous behaviour.

Although, the monetary values are different, taking a Nintendo DS from a fellow student is just another mischief. How come the school will go as far as to offering a reward to find it for the student who should not have taken such expensive toy to school in the first place? Is the school authority silently giving students permission to take valuable things to school? Will we soon see the school notice board covered with "Reward Offered" posters, and teachers searching students backpacks because so and so has lost a $100 watch?