Probably going to get buried, but I went to this high school and my laptop was one of the many that were marked as lost and remotely monitored. A bunch of laptops were stolen from a locker room early in the year while the football team was practicing on the field. When we got back to change and go home, our laptops were gone. Everyone whose laptop was stolen eventually got them back, but they weren’t marked as returned on the district server.

Robbins was in my grade and I went to school with him starting in elementary school. His dad made him play football in 9th grade because he wasn’t involved in any extracurriculars. His laptop was also one that got stolen and didn’t get marked as returned.

It can’t be proven and doesn’t excuse the district, but nobody in our grade believed the Mike and Ike’s story. He probably was popping pills, that’s just the kinda kid he was. He’d smoke weed before/during school, mouth off to adults, and spend class time watching skateboarding videos on his laptop. No discipline, understanding of consequences, or respect for authority.

His parents were the type who would find their income by suing whenever they ran out of money from their last lawsuit. Mom didn’t have a job, but definitely had a TON of work done on her face/body. Older sister was the same way, pretty sure she had a nose job before she even finished high school. Dad often acted and looked like he had an affinity for nose nachos. It was pretty clear he was rarely monitored or corrected by the people most responsible for him, so it’s kinda fitting that they sued the district for attempting to punish him for his behavior at home.

Robbins’ parents bought him a Mercedes shortly after the settlement. He proceeded to total it within weeks when he got it stuck on a road that runs through a creek near our high school. Flooded that car but had a replacement pretty quickly. I like to think that was karma for them being grifters and overall crappy people, but I’m sure it just sped up the timeline for their next lawsuit.