In our generation nothing is ever taken as a joke. Some would say that this is no problem to them, but I see it as a way of punishing us for speaking our mind, even if it does not satisfy some people. It was made to share our ideas to others whether if it’s good or bad. Why should the school be regulating our tweets anyways? I thought it was made to express our ideas?

Let’s take my situation, for example. A kid decided to post on Twitter saying that he would pull the fire alarm. I felt that this was a crazy idea and wanted to respond to it. I replied  “You’re dumb” because it wasn’t the best idea. A few minutes later I am called to my house principal’s office confused, worried and in shock. I’m asked, “Did you tweet anything that i should know about?” I show him all of my tweets, not knowing what he was talking about.

Did someone go on my Twitter and tweet bad things? Did someone say something to get themselves out of trouble? Maybe I’m in trouble for something else? I’m never in the principal’s office though? These were all the questions that were going through my head.

My tweet was considered “encouraging to the student,” but I don’t understand how my tweet about another person’s mistake was considered encouraging at all. My punishment? I could choose from Saturday school or Wednesday school. I wanted to question the punishment but didn’t, and resigned myself to 4 hours of Wednesday school.

Now don’t get me wrong. There’s no reason to be tweeting at school, but it’s not right to make someone take time out of their day to be in a room for four hours when they didn’t do anything.

That’s my personal information, and Twitter was made to share your ideas on any situation. There are all kinds of kids that tweet about some messed up things like fighting and drugs, but you don’t see them in the principal’s office.

The school should stay out of it unless it involves a life-or-death situation or if  it is affecting them in any way. No one should be going to Wednesday school just for speaking his or her mind. That’s our parents’ job to punish us. Stop being our parents. Just be our teachers, and stay out of our personal lives.