Nobody will care about this within a week. He will and likely already has gotten a stern talking to. He was wrong and was immature but so are a lot of people his age.
I agree with you. However, the damage is already done IMO.
We try to teach our kids that you NEVER say anything on social media that you don't want the world to know and "track" (teenangers). When my one boy has a meltdown, I video with my phone. Honestly, he looks like a pissed off idiot. I tell him anytime he is with a group of people (particularly his age) and those people have cell phones, he HAS to keep his composure because he has no clue who may be videoing him and where that video footage may end up.
My boys aren't high school football players looking for a scholarship (one does run track pretty good), but if you're looking and hoping to make sports perhaps a career down the road, this basic "social media training" should be instilled in these young people that their actions can have consequences down the road because their moments of sheer stupidity will be documented for years to come on various types of social media.
If you're good enought to be invited to play in a tournement like this, you darn well should realize that any attention other than good behavior isn't going to help you down the road.
Heck, bad behavior can even affect your choice of college...
Mimi Groves withdrew her admission to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville after a four-year-old video of her uttering the “n-word” went viral.
thecollegepost.com
Years ago my one boy wanted me to take a very stupid picture of himself doing something "funny" in his mind. I didn't want to take such a stupid picture but I did. I still have it on my phone 5 years later and to this day he can get freaked out that I will show it in a family setting (I don't LOL). My point to him is you want to take a pic of yourself doing stupid crap, if you aren't the one taking the picture, you have no clue where it will end up.
We live in a farming community. Rural school. I'm amazed at my one son's black friends who love to use the term "nigga" via social posts like it's completely fine with the term. Black person says nigga on social media, guess it's all right. White person says "nigga" on social posts, all haydes could break out because it's wrong.
