Communication problems

I'm a head varsity track coach for a local high school and the kids were on spring break all week. Why high schools have a spring break is beyond me, but I still made practice mandatory. Some kids didn't show up at all and gave the excuse (well their parents even made the excuse) that "My parents were at work and I didn't have a car to get to practice and I don;t have a roster to call someone to get me." Ok... so you are going to tell me, that with Facebook, Myspace, email, text and cell phone calls, that you can't get in touch with someone on your team OR you don't have the number of one of your fellow 70 athletes on the team? What crap! With technology these days, don't try to pull a fast one on me. I even told a parent that this week, whose daughter is quite popular and tried to pull the "i dont have a ride', that with all the technology, that she could have found a ride if she needed.