Man who stole stickers as a school student stuns principal by returning them and apologising - 28 YEARS after he took them
- A principal was shocked after ex-student returned stickers stolen 30 years ago
- The stickers came in an 'interesting' letter form a past pupil only known as 'Mick'
- Inside the envelope was a note and sticker sheet purported to have been stolen
A primary school principal has been stunned after returning to work for the new year only to find a letter containing stickers that had been stolen almost three decades earlier.
Huntingdale Primary School principal Ed Black said that when he returned to work after the holiday break he was handed him an 'interesting' letter form a past pupil only known as 'Mick'.
Inside the envelope was a hand written note and a sheet of sticker purported to have been stolen when Mick was a student at the school.
The Huntingdale Primary School (pictured) has been stunned after returning to work for the new year only to find a letter containing stickers that had been stolen three decades ago
In the letter Mick explained how during a dark time in his young life, after his parents had separated, he had fallen in with some boys who didn't 'bring out the best' in him, reported WA Today.
Mick and some of his friends decided one day when the teacher was out of the classroom to steal the stickers from the class store room.
'The plan was to meet in the cricket nets on the oval after school to divide up our ill-gotten gains ... somehow another student noticed what we were doing, proceeded to inform his mum, who then let the school know — we were busted!,' he wrote.
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However, 28 years later Mick said he still felt guilty about the theft and was sending the stickers and note to 'put things right'.
Mick then went on to describe how his time at the school had taught him core values that he has carried with him through his life which Mr Black said was something that blew him away.
Inside the envelope was a hand written note and a sheet of sticker purported to have been stolen when Mick was a student at the school (file image)
'For this guy to go away, having been naughty as a little boy, and to steal these stickers ... for him to send them back and tell us that he's going well ... that last paragraph just knocked us over,' Mr Black said.
'This guy just said it for us — it reminds us that primary education is about the whole child, and not just the data.'
He also said the school had indeed retained the same learning lessons and instilled the same core values in their students three decades later, all be it with a little more digital flair.
However, 28 years later Mick said he still felt guilty about the theft and was sending the stickers and note to 'put things right' (file image)
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