The recent Pyle and Whitman sexting news hits close to home since I went to Whitman for high school.

On the radio this morning, the principal of Pyle, Michael Zarkin, said that parents were shutting down their kids’ Facebook profiles, and that:

“Texting is gone, cameras are gone, and the kids are saying ‘thank you, I couldn’t handle it.’”

It’s infuriating when people — who somehow think they represent the thoughts of an entire external demographic — say: “and they thank us for it!”. It’s doubly infuriating when the action the demographic is supposedly thankful for does nothing to solve the underlying cause, which, in this case, is that hormones make kids do strange, sometimes stupid things.

I want to write a longer blog post about it, but haven’t been able to quite get past the sputtering indignation stage of post formulation yet.