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Which punishment is most appropriate?

A 16 year-old high school girl is caught stealing money. What punishment fits?

  • One week detention

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • two week's detention.

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • One week suspension.

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Expelled from school.

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Three licks with a paddle on clothed butt

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Five licks on her bare butt with a paddle.

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • Five licks on the bare and then 1 month reform school

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • A year in jail

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Two years in jail

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Death by hanging.

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Total voters
    11
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A 16 year-old high school girl is caught stealing money from her teacher's purse, about $40. What should her punishment be?
 
The money should be returned, with an apology from the girl, and then the girl's parents should take away her cell phone and make her mow the lawn, clean the gutters, and clean up after dinner for a week.

In short. she should lose a privilege and be put to work for a period of time.
 
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other said:
The money should be returned, with an apology from the girl, and then the girl's parents should take away her cell phone and make her mow the lawn, clean the gutters, and clean up after dinner for a week.

In short. she should lose a privilege and be put to work for a period of time.
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What. She isn't doing these chores already>

An apology to the teacher and to the parents (for letting them down). Community service at the school for at least 40 hours.
 
Luna Tick said:
A 16 year-old high school girl is caught stealing money from her teacher's purse, about $40. What should her punishment be?
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A judge should assign her to community service of the teacher's choice every Saturday and Sunday for a year.
 
Death by hanging, of course.

Otherwise, she will grow up to be a hardened criminal, and probably commit multiple heavily armed robberies, killing dozens of people.

Isn’t it obvious?
 
Luna Tick said:
A 16 year-old high school girl is caught stealing money from her teacher's purse, about $40. What should her punishment be?
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You make the weirdest threads.
 
Luna Tick said:
A 16 year-old high school girl is caught stealing money from her teacher's purse, about $40. What should her punishment be?
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I voted 2 weeks detention, but if she's hot and stole from me I should reserve the right to lick her bare butt
 
rytis said:
I voted 2 weeks detention, but if she's hot and stole from me I should reserve the right to lick her bare butt
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that's brutal, man.
 
Gotta admit the bare-buttlicking has a certain appeal. She wouldn't happen to be a cheerleader would she? :mrgreen:


Ok ok seriously. She should repay the money twofold. Return the $40, or whatever is left of it; get a JOB and work until she has repaid double ($80). The first repayment is a restoration of what she stole, the second is her lesson in what she did wrong by stealing someone's money: she stole someone's TIME and EFFORT.

And, if I was her Dad, she's grounded for a month, too.
 
None of the above. She should be held to the current standards, assuming the teacher presses charges. That means possible jail time and certainly community service. Theft is theft, no matter the age, no matter the amount.
 
Goshin said:
Gotta admit the bare-buttlicking has a certain appeal. She wouldn't happen to be a cheerleader would she? :mrgreen:


Ok ok seriously. She should repay the money twofold. Return the $40, or whatever is left of it; get a JOB and work until she has repaid double ($80). The first repayment is a restoration of what she stole, the second is her lesson in what she did wrong by stealing someone's money: she stole someone's TIME and EFFORT.

And, if I was her Dad, she's grounded for a month, too.
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I've never really understood what "grounded" meant.
What parameters does the word entail? No leaving a certain area? Certain privileges removed?

I agree with the rest of your post.

Dirty old man.

Of course, I'm a dirty young one...
 
Cephus said:
None of the above. She should be held to the current standards, assuming the teacher presses charges. That means possible jail time and certainly community service. Theft is theft, no matter the age, no matter the amount.
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I agree that she should be charged for her crime just as anyone would, but I wouldn't have the same stance with an 8 year old, so for me age is a factor in general.

An 8 year old would not fully understand the nature of their actions as a 16 year old would, but they would know that they are doing wrong and they would deserve punishment for it. Just not the same degree of punishement.
 
rytis said:
I voted 2 weeks detention, but if she's hot and stole from me I should reserve the right to lick her bare butt
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I hope you're a teenager yourself otherwise this post is pretty creepy.

To the OP - I think it would depend on if this girl had been in trouble before. If not, an ISS with restitution in the form of community service inside the school (school punishment of community service). Parents notified and an apology made.
 
She committed a crime against a teacher and while on school grounds, so for once the school would be justified in applying its own penalties. This certainly does not warrant expulsion, and I'd argue against any kind of lengthy suspension as well; her academic future and the opportunity to make a legitimate career for herself seems a little steep when weighed against petty theft.

I generally think the people in this thread have the right idea. Force her to pay the money back twice over, and then spend her own time and effort in community service-- as long as the school's detention requirement and the law's community service requirement did not conflict. If the details could be worked out to the victim's satisfaction, there's no need for the law to get involved at all.

Of course, if the teacher had caught her in the act, she'd have been perfectly justified in breaking her hand.
 
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Luna Tick said:
A 16 year-old high school girl is caught stealing money from her teacher's purse, about $40. What should her punishment be?
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What ever punishment a thief/pick pocket is given. If it is jail then that is what she should get, if it fines and community service then that is what she should get.Of course all this is assuming this is her first offense.
 
Gitmo with daily waterboardings :mrgreen:
 
I picked the bare butt one one, because well you know, the same reason all those other people did.
 
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