BEAT THEM NOW BECAUSE IN A FEW YEARS YOU'LL BE WORKING FOR THEM.

High school football coaches at blue-collar neighborhood schools might have worked something like that into their pep talks.

If that's the stuff of legend these days, the sentiments behind it still circulate.

A huge sign used during a high school football game is causing controversy in a North Carolina school district.

According to WBTV, cheerleaders at Butler High School held a banner that read, Sniff, Sniff. You smell that? $Privilege$ for the football team to run through before the start of the game.

The wording implied students who attend Charlotte Catholic High School, the opposing team, are privileged.

Parents were stunned that student cheerleaders held the banner, and some called it disappointing.

“The thing that was so disturbing was it was children,” said Melissa Swanson, a parent who attended the football game with her son. “Whether they are high school, elementary school or middle school -- they’re children. The administration, the coaches, the athletic director - they had to know it.”

Swanson thought the sign was mean-spirited and an inaccurate depiction.

She believes the sign portrays an idea that Charlotte Catholic is a “rich, white high school” that has it easy.

There. Will. Be. Consequences.

Let the too-easy use of the faculty-lounge language of wokeness in secondary education be collateral damage!