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re: Vermilion Catholic High School to implement policy restricting social media use

Posted on 6/4/26 at 6:36 am to
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37409 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 6:36 am to
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A private company restricting users is quite different than a government organization restricting your speech.

What type of school you think Vermilion CATHOLIC is?

The kids are free to attend public school.
Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
42477 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 6:38 am to
I'm ok with the school trying this. Hell at CHS in New Iberia we had 2 issues during the year where the school principal emailed all the parents about a couple of situations that happened on Snap Chat with fricking 4th graders.......
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
11303 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 6:44 am to
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What type of school you think Vermilion CATHOLIC is?


Ahhh. I didn’t think of that. Private school, then they can do what they want.
Posted by Gravitiger
Member since Jun 2011
12636 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 6:49 am to
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I think the defining YouTube and Twitch as social media might be a stretch.
Why?
Posted by Zakatak
Member since Nov 2011
514 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:03 am to
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had snap on their phone
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8th grade


Why do 8th graders have smart phones with internet access in the first place?
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
48297 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:06 am to
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The first kid that gets suspended for having a facebook will sue and win.


No, they won't. It will be in the agreement that the parents sign when the kid starts school there. It is a private school.

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This is like a free money handout to whoever sues first



What is the harm that they will sue to be compensated for? Who will sue?
Posted by Bert Macklin FBI
Quantico
Member since May 2013
12444 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:07 am to
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The first kid that gets suspended for having a facebook will sue and win.


It’s a private school that these kids voluntarily attend. They can make their rules whatever they want so long as no one is getting harmed.
Posted by Salmon
I helped draft the email
Member since Feb 2008
86553 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:08 am to
Gonna be a lot of snitching

Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
63890 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:10 am to
How can they sue and win? It’s a private school.
Posted by FliesByNight
Whale, wail, well
Member since Apr 2026
329 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:29 am to
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Roblox


I guess I'm just old in my mid 30s, but I thought Roblox was a game
Posted by BigNastyTiger417
Member since Nov 2021
5734 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:32 am to
They are also free to do as they please away from school. You know, in their personal life.
Posted by DownSouthTiger
downsouth
Member since Jan 2005
2658 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:39 am to
None of mine had it before 8th grade.
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
86167 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:41 am to
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They are also free to do as they please away from school. You know, in their personal life.


Smoke some weed “in your personal life” away from school and fail a drug test and see what happens.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37409 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:47 am to
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What is the harm that they will sue to be compensated for? Who will sue?

People are stupid. The school sent this policy out before the new school year. You’re free to not enroll your student there next year if you don’t like it. It’s like some people think they have a “right” to send their kid to a private school.
Posted by AwesomeSauce
Das Boot
Member since May 2015
11590 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 7:51 am to
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I don't think the idea is a bad one, just unenforceable.
I think the school having a rule gives the parent more leverage. "All my friends have it", don't care and also bullshite.

If you have kids or grandkids, I highly encourage reading 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt. Parents need to do more to protect their kids, not just from predators but from some of the pitfalls we are starting to see to cognitive and emotional development that are altered by social media. Kids are not ready for unfettered access to everything all of the platforms give them at 13. There is a reason we are seeing a generation that is dumber yet smarter, maturing sooner but emotionally immature, rising depression, rising anxiety, more addictive...policies like this if they gain traction could help combat some of that with the next generation.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132355 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 8:02 am to
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only all these kids had... fricking parents.


The parents are pushing back against the school

You are free to send them to Abbeville High
Posted by ProjectP2294
West St. Louis County
Member since May 2007
79472 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 8:05 am to
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The first kid that gets suspended for having a facebook will sue and win.


Why? They don't have to go to school there.
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
23444 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 8:09 am to
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They are also free to do as they please away from school. You know, in their personal life.


Not in Catholic schools. For most of them you sign a morality code that dictates what you can and can't do outside of school as well. If you post pictures of yourself drinking or smoking, they're free to kick your arse out. There's lots of settled legal precedent on this.
Posted by KamaCausey_LSU
Member since Apr 2013
17806 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 8:14 am to
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They are also free to do as they please away from school. You know, in their personal life.

Not if their parents sign the form, student code of conduct, or handbook saying otherwise.

Obviously high school is different, but there have been hundreds of guys at Catholic High BR that have learned the hard way how the school can and will enforce the "Student 24/7" rule.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
56855 posts
Posted on 6/4/26 at 8:31 am to
Good
School leadership wastes more time being responsible to report on everything kids do outside of school, it's insane and parents are clueless to police their own kids

Private schools can do whatever they want and if you don't like it go try the public school system
This post was edited on 6/4/26 at 8:43 am
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