This is another one of those weird news stories that makes you shake your head and say, “What were they thinking?”
If you could go back and redo your high school years would you do it? I wouldn’t mind going back in time long enough to give my teenage self a good smack upside the head. But relive the entire experience? No thank you.
A thirty year old woman in Wisconsin decided to do just that. She took her daughter’s identity and enrolled in a local high school and joined the cheerleading squad. School officials became suspicious when she failed to show up for classes.
I am not sure why the fact that she looks like a 30 yr old woman, not a 15 yr old girl, didn’t raise any suspicions.
After I got over my shock that someone would do this, I read in the news article that the mother wanted to relive her high school experience because she never got to do it the first time around. Simple math would show that when she really was 15 yrs old she was already a mother or on her way to becoming one. I don’t think there are pregnant cheerleaders. It is sad that she feels like she missed out. And even sadder that she hasn’t gotten over it.
The woman is now under arrest, charged with a felony and facing jail time. I guess high school the second time around isn’t all it was cracked up to be.
I wonder what the daughter was doing? Just having a wild time, skipping school, ending up pregnant at 15 like her mother, perhaps?
No way would I ever ever EVER want to go to highschool again, I cringe when I even have to go back to that town to see my parents. Except for my weight, I was a skinny lil’ thang back then.
Comment by Brigitte — September 17, 2008 @ 6:53 am
Actually, the whole story was not put here. The daughter is actually living with her Grandmother a few states away. When someone from the school was doing a search on the teen’s name, the story came out.
Comment by Lumi — September 22, 2008 @ 9:24 pm