School bans kids from social media even outside of school

Man, everything just keeps getting weirder and weirder, doesn't it?

A Catholic school in Abbeville, Louisiana, has now decided to ban students in 8th grade and under from using social media sites - not just at school, but even away from school. The ban applies when they're at home, during weekends, and even during summer break. Students are banned from even having social media accounts.

The fourth offense will result in expulsion.

This is a private school, and a private school has more power to control students' lives than a public school does. But in this case, the school is overstepping its authority. There ought to be a law to stop schools - public as well as private - from doing this. Then again, public schools have also shown over the past few years that they too like to control off-campus conduct, so you know public schools are chomping at the bit to copy this school's policy.

Louisiana was also one of the first states to give taxpayer money to religious schools, which is unconstitutional, but they do it anyway.