Petition · past parliament
Stop the teachers from having the right to seize students’ property/belongings
Rejected
12 signatures
What the petition asks
Obviously teachers/members of staff should be able to comfiscate stuff like knives, alcohol, drugs etc but when a teacher/member of staff confiscated something like a phone and then doesn’t have legal responsibility if it gets lost or broken is obviously outrageous and bias towards the teacher.
In the petition I want a change in the law so that schools can’t confiscate belongings like phones and coats and instead teachers can take phones for whole lessons and if the phone isn't handed over approaite sanctions are taken. Schools having no punishment for breaking or loosing students’ phones is what I like to call legalised theft
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 9 Mar 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 16 Mar 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
12
Status
Rejected
Rejected
16 Mar 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.