Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The agent of chaos strikes again, and of course, there is unrest in the city as to what the police are doing.

A student supposedly left his PSP in the laboratory. When he's looking for it hours later in the evening, naturally it's closed, and when they have it opened and searched, it's not there.

You'd think the student would learn, admit that it's his fault for bring the toy to school and move on.

But no, the mother wants someone to pay for the loss of a ten thousand peso value.

She goes to school twice, convinced of the guilt of the lab technician. I meet her the second time she's here.

First words out of her mouth are how someone who is not a lab student would not think of going into the lab. It's locked, as is standard policy when there are no classes there.

She goes on to say how easy it would be to sell something that has a five-figure value for eight thousand pesos.

She admits the child was reprimanded, repeating about the lost "NSP"; shows her level of attention to detail.

She threatens to tell everyone about how lax security here is if she is not satisfied, and talks about other school where thieves, both students and non-students are caught.

She says her kid left the lab immediately with his classmates, and that no one got left behind.

Besides, if it's any one of them, she says then they should be ashamed, because when they go to her house, she cooks for them and cleans up after their mess after drinking.

It's not really the soundest argument as to the innocence of those students presented with an opportunity where someone else can be blamed for what's missing.

She goes on to say she had been in campus that day just to see if her kid was really going to class, but that if she had known what had transpired before going home, she would have asked for the bag inspection of the technician before leaving. She can bring in the police if she wants (as she also threatens). We can't go on accusing people blindly, especially when the window of proof has closed.

Session 2615 prefers to err on the side of caution on these matters. Class dismissed.