Look.. we here at Bad Kids Go to Hell totally lay down to the awesomeness of another blog, and you just can't beat CRACKED for their top 5 and top 10 lists..
"Let me repeat that - there is absolutely, positively no reason for any middle school student to be a part of a social networking site! None." - NJ Principal (attempting to move the planets).
Well, there's no reason for any middle school kid to play football for that matter. Kids get hurt, injured. Or join the Science Club (Future meth heads, start your engines!). Or to participate in a middle school dance. (As the Eagle's said, "There'll be a heartache tonight... ) Not to mention the fucked up shit that kids can watch after school at their best friend, Jimmy's house whose dad subscribes to EVERY porn channel possible.
Teacher: "Hey Billy, what did you do after school?"
Billy: "Me and Jimmy watched 'Jugg Fuckers #9' on Skin-o-max. It was awesome."
Teacher: 'Oo."
Quite frankly, a social networking site doesn't register a tick-turd's worth of harm or psychological trauma on the grand scale of life in the "middle school fast lane."
Jesus, haven't you figured it out: School is dangerous. School is a diabolical adventure. School is a series of jumps, twits, front-flips, and other acrobatic Jackie Chan-like moves performed daily, in between the hours of 8:30 am and 3:30 pm.
Hell, school causes cancer. (No, seriously.. those soy burgers?! What DO they put in those things? Ground up midgets?)
I admire them being concerned parents, but the best way to protect your kid from bad people is to talk to them. Like, about everything. And make sure they're not nuts. And if they are, put 'em in therapy. And talk with 'em some more and keep tabs on them without smothering them. And then talk with 'em EVEN more. (See a pattern?)
You signed up to be a parent, but don't put the kibosh on every single social thing your kids want to do -- it will just agitate the situation. And somehow, I don't think Social Networking should be at the top of your list.
And there's too much crazy shit around the corner.
'Cause I'm telling you, when this 3D Virtual Reality porn hits the TV... whoa, baby...
You know what...let's just leave the social networking to the parents...
thanks to the good people at boingboing for uncovering this week's topic in school news... brought to you by the not so good people of lower merion school district in pennsylvania who decided that one way to handle their "bad kids" was to have its schools use student laptop webcams to spy on the little bastards not just at school but at their homes as well... 1984? nope...it's 2010 in the nanny states of america! oh this cannot be...it's absurd...crazy...ridiculous..there's just no way... WAY! and it's even worse than you think when you read the actual civil court filing... "next week on 'to catch a predator' chris hansen surprises 7th grade social studies teacher at home sitting by her computer, sipping on a glass of cabernet, watching her favorite little bad boy get ready for bed..." this is worse than robot teachers invading the classrooms!