High School Science Club Management: The Facebook Method

November 16, 2018

I am not much of a Facebooker. We use a script to pump out the titles of the items we post in the Beyond Search blog. I try to ignore Facebook, but – I must admit – that has been tough the last few days. The New York Times finally jabbed its remaining investigative skills into the juicy, fat cables of Facebookland. My takeaway from the long newspaper story which has many atwitter is that HSSCM is alive and well. HSSCM means to me “high school science club management.”

What sparks me to write this fine morning in rural Kentucky is an essay by the chief lean inner at his link. To read this essay, I have been informed I have to log in. I did not. I assume I saw the full Monty, but who knows? In practice it doesn’t matter because the drift of the write up is:

What? Who knew?

Yeah, sounds about right. Who put “Great Balls of Fire” on the Woodruff High School PA system at 7 45 am in 1958? Those of us in the WHS Science Club said:

What? Who knew?

Here in frosty Harrod’s Creek, the stories from Facebookland reveal the basic workings of HSSCM: Say what’s necessary to make the annoying Mr. McDonald (our WHS principal) go away.

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We were the Science Club. We are the future. We knew better.

Sophomoric explanations work fine when one is 15. Transported to a publicly traded company I grow weary.

Time for a change. Lean into that.

Stephen E Arnold, November 16, 2018

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One Response to “High School Science Club Management: The Facebook Method”

  1. brad on November 16th, 2018 8:10 pm

    Agreed! well said…

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