Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Stolen pencil case After socially integrating her diverse class, Carol sees her efforts threatened when a student's pencil case disappears and is thought to have been stolen. What would you do to fix the situation? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do even if you find the pencil case in someone else’s desk. This just happened in my internship last semester. It was in a third grade classroom and a little girl ended up misplacing her bath and body works cranberry scented hand sanitizer. She was very upset about this because to her it was a present from her mom. She then noticed it in another classmates desk and started freaking out. We were not able to take it from the other classmate because myself or my cooperating teacher did not actually witness the student take it and place it in their desk. We had no way to prove that she did not come to school with that hand sanitizer. Both of us had a pretty strong feeling that it belonged to the student who lost it, but it was something that we could not prove without a shadow of a doubt. The little girl started crying, and was visibly upset. I think the other student felt bad and said “Oh, well you can have it. I have another one at home.” I think the guilty conscience is what made her give it back, but had she not done that we would not have been able to take it away from her unless there was a name on it or something that proved it was hers.