parent learns woe of governmental intrusion

This week a parent found that the ever-increasing intrusiveness of the government can extend to her children even when the children are not in school.  Her son and some others were bantering back and forth with another child through text messages and cell-phone calls.  The children were jibing one another about whom each happened to be, even though the cell phone displayed the caller's identity. 

To get the last “a-ha,” one of the children took his cell-phone to school, showed one of the teachers and said that the others were imitating her. 

Even though the teens came forward, admitted their role in the texts and ensuing phone conversations and apologized to the teacher, the teacher was upset by her name being used even in jest. 

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