Quote:ECSNorway wrote:I'm not really going to fault them for that either. Considering the daughter was involved herself and they're family. I mean, I suppose he could have said to his daughter, "I'm sorry, I can't tell you anything", but that seems kinda cold. He probably should just have appended 'you can't tell anyone'. Sure the family didn't handle it the best way, but I'm not seeing anything egregiously stupid or irresponsible - just simple and easy to make human mistakes. Honestly, the situation makes me want to sympathize with the family, not point at them and go 'that's what you get'. That's what you get for what? Trusting your daughter? Gloating a little bit at the institution that discriminated against yourself and your father? Meh.
As said, s3yang, it's not the kid's impulsive brag about it that's the point.
It's that the parents signed a form saying they wouldn't tell ANYONE about it, then immediately turned around and told the kid.
They had already forfeited it, all the kid did was get them caught.
There's been a recent rash of stereotypical 'stupid teenager' and 'irresponsible parent' reactions - like the drunk girl and the family that claimed her twitter account was hacked. And while this article seems to sort of follow that general narrative, it only does so only at first glance. Pointing at it and going 'can't cure stupid' or something similar is pure schadenfreude.