FB Trouble

It's not just the millennials that get in trouble with Facebook.  This mother, a Gen Xer, ran into trouble when she posted - inadvertantly - information that revealed her two sons, starters on the football team, don't actually live in the county in which they attend school.

Here is the story.

I love it.

First, whenever a member of an older generation (who usually looks down upon members of the younger generation) screws up with technology, it's always interesting. I have peers tell me all the time about the trouble they have with "those damn kids and their cell phones." Yet, how many times have I ever had a student's cell phone go off in class? Never. How many meetings have I been to where one of my peers has their phone go off? Everytime. And worse yet, the older generation can't seem to find their phone to shut it off or squeeze it out of their tight pockets or - worst of all - they actually answer it!

Second, sending kids to another school for athletics alone (as opposed to, you know, getting an education) is stupid.

Third, the article feels sympathy for the program -

Still, those personal records will be little solace for a team that likely would have been 5-0 and well on its way to one of the top postseason seeds in Tennessee's smallest division, Class 1A if not for one judgmental mother who resorted to social networking to scold her sloppy teenage sons.

I don't. Do your job (and this might well be the counseling department's job actually) and find out where your students actually live and are actually eligible to play FIRST.