My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike cage at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect their bikes and go home. I have had a look at the school cycling policy and it does state that the school can in no way be held responsible for the bikes while on their premises. I have spoken to the head of his year twice and he said their is nothing he can do unless he has any witnesses to the alleged offences. I questioned him on his use of the word alleged at this point as the damaged caused could not be inflicted by riding the bike. It has had 9 punctures all on the sidewalls of the tyre where no objects have been found either internal or external of the tyres, both brake cables have been disconnected, the wiring for the computer has been snapped off and finally the chain ring has been bent out of shape rendering the bike unrideable. I have repaired all of this and my son continues to cycle but I now dread his return daily for the next instalment of cycle repairs. The only option left open to avoid the vandalism is for me to drive him to school and collect him which would add to the already congested roads at these times of the day of which I am loath to do. Does the school not have some duty of care to the wellbeing of it's pupils and their possessions.
My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike cage at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect their bikes and go home. I have had a look at the school cycling policy and it does state that the school can in no way be held responsible for the bikes while on their premises. I have spoken to the head of his year twice and he said their is nothing he can do unless he has any witnesses to the alleged offences. I questioned him on his use of the word alleged at this point as the damaged caused could not be inflicted by riding the bike. It has had 9 punctures all on the sidewalls of the tyre where no objects have been found either internal or external of the tyres, both brake cables have been disconnected, the wiring for the computer has been snapped off and finally the chain ring has been bent out of shape rendering the bike unrideable. I have repaired all of this and my son continues to cycle but I now dread his return daily for the next instalment of cycle repairs. The only option left open to avoid the vandalism is for me to drive him to school and collect him which would add to the already congested roads at these times of the day of which I am loath to do. Does the school not have some duty of care to the wellbeing of it's pupils and their possessions.
If you get no joy with that, persistent vandalism of possessions could well meet the definition of bullying. That should get some response from the school.
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My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike
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at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect
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bikes and go home. I have had a look at the school cycling policy and it does state that the school can in no way be held responsible for the
bikes
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while on their premises. I have spoken to the head of his year twice and
he
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said their is nothing he can do unless he has any witnesses to the
alleged
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offences. I questioned him on his use of the word alleged at this point
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the damaged caused could not be inflicted by riding the bike. It has had
9
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punctures all on the sidewalls of the tyre where no objects have been
found
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either internal or external of the tyres, both brake cables have been disconnected, the wiring for the computer has been snapped off and
finally
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the chain ring has been bent out of shape rendering the bike unrideable.
I
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have repaired all of this and my son continues to cycle but I now dread
his
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return daily for the next instalment of cycle repairs. The only option
left
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open to avoid the vandalism is for me to drive him to school and collect
him
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which would add to the already congested roads at these times of the day
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which I am loath to do. Does the school not have some duty of care to
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wellbeing of it's pupils and their possessions.
If you get no joy with that, persistent vandalism of possessions could well meet the definition of bullying. That should get some response from the school.
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thanks for that but having another read of the school cycling policy the school states the following.
In order to help with this cycle policy the school will provide a safe place for bikes to be stored. (Pupils/ guardians are responsible for the locks) and *safe storage for cycle helmets.
I have now raised the question " what are they going to do to make the storage area safe as it currently isn't?". 5 times in one month is getting a bit much.
My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike cage at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect their bikes and go home....
Perhaps the school would allow you to set up a temporary, portable CCTV - trained on the bike stands?
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My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike cage at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect their bikes and go home.
Easy peasy to solve. Deploy one teacher in the afternoon to keep an eye on things. As the head appears to be fairly useless they are the obvious candidate. A short period should sort out the problem.
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The only option left open to avoid the vandalism is for me to drive him to school and collect him
That is presumably what the school wants, though unwilling to say so.
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Does the school not have some duty of care to the wellbeing of it's pupils and their possessions.
Certainly the former. Probably the latter, unless it is a bike. Ask how they would react if cars on the site were being vandalised. If it is like most schools a large area of playground will have been taken away from the children for teachers to use as car parking.
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My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike cage at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect their bikes and go home. I have had a look at the school cycling policy and it does state that the school can in no way be held responsible for the bikes while on their premises. I have spoken to the head of his year twice and he said their is nothing he can do unless he has any witnesses to the alleged offences.
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"Jon_H" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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My sons bike has been vandalised several times while locked in the bike cage at his school over the last couple of weeks the cage is locked in the morning and opened in the afternoon in time for the kids to collect
their
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bikes and go home. I have had a look at the school cycling policy and it does state that the school can in no way be held responsible for the
bikes
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while on their premises. I have spoken to the head of his year twice and he said their is nothing he can do unless he has any witnesses to the
alleged
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offences.
How can it be damaged when locked in the cage?
Where is the cage? Is it in plain sight?
CCTV is cheap - suggest it.
John
I phoned the school today On my sons return (complete with front tyre flapping around and punctured rear). I asked to make an appointment to see the headmaster but unfortunately he and his PA (since when did they have PA's) had both gone home. their mode of transport had obviously not been vandalised. I will call again tomorrow to announce my arrival, I have all day to wait.
