I read through all these posts and am just sickened by how so many lack morals. I see this all the time at the middle school where I teach. I cannot leave anything of value out. Last year I had at least 300 pencils "borrowed" and not returned. I had my purse stolen out of my desk once. My co-worker had her cell phone stolen out of her desk in her office. I have lost over a hundred books in the last five years that kids have stolen from my shelves. It gets old. So many of my kids have no conscience when it comes to stealing. There rarely is a day that some e-mail doesn't come through saying a kid got an IPod or a cell phone stolen. It is getting worse, folks.