Dave Kori: Snot-Nosed Punk or Freedom Fighter?

NashVegas

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:32 PM
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Poll question: Dave Kori: Snot-Nosed Punk or Freedom Fighter?

Don't know if you all saw this one but this 17 year old, 3.9 GPA, debate team-member, Virginia kid was stressed out over his school's superintendent's failure to call a snowday for 3 inches of snow, and ended up calling the guy's house. Super's wife, who happens to be a teacher, hears the message when she gets home and calls the kid up, leaves a very pissed off voicemail telling him to basically grow up and get over himself. Kid proceeds to upload her voicemail message to YouTube and publish the super's contact info on Facebook.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012203660.html

The message that was left:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=5545346&version=1&locale=EN-US

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Virginia Dare

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:34 PM
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1. Oh, he's a freedom fighter alright..

just like that asshat at the Kerry function at University of Florida. :sarcasm:

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Bentcorner

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:35 PM
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2. How about none of the above?

I don't think the kid did anything wrong. He contacted a public official using that public official's public contact information. What's the problem with that? I wouldn't say that he is a freedom fighter. He just made a phone call and posted something to YouTube.

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:37 PM
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3. School superintendents are public servants

If the lady didn't want to be called she should not have had a publicly listed phone number.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:38 PM
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4. Neither.

If you're a superintendent and on the snow call list and it snows- expect calls. From anybody. Admins, teachers, bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc. I've never heard of a student calling, but I can't get all worked up over it.

If anybody is a snot-nosed punk, it'd be the teacher who left the stupid message.

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NashVegas

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:46 PM
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5. I Think Both Were Asses

I grew up in the lower Adirondacks, and I guess we all took it on trust that if the figureheads told the buses to go out, they were going to make it through.

Once every few years, someone would get lucky and hit on that year's media password and phone it into the radio stations.

But I can't imagine any of us would ever have had the audacity & arrogance to call the Super, directly, and whine about not getting a snow day. It's like a CVS clerk calling the CEO and wanting to know why the store hasn't shut down when they're out of cash register tape.

Now, the wife ... oy! I agree with the sentiment, can't agree with the way it was expressed.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:47 PM
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6. So if it were, say, classified staff calling the superintendent...

wanting to talk about the snow, would you have a problem with that?

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NashVegas

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:52 PM
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7. Depends

The only school officials I could imagine calling the guy at home, with propriety, would be principals and vice-principals (or others of their designation), school board members, head of the garage, etc.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:52 PM
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8. Teachers?

Secretaries? Janitors?

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NashVegas

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:53 PM
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9. Nope.

Edited on Thu Jan-24-08 02:54 PM by Crisco

Not unless they were calling for whistle-blowing purposes. Secretaries or other admin staff would probably be designated by the principal, on occasion.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:54 PM
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10. Ah, I see.

Everyone has their own little station in life, and they certainly shouldn't cross it.

Well, it jives with your comments in that other thread.

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NashVegas

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Thu Jan-24-08 02:57 PM
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11. Yeah, Well

Edited on Thu Jan-24-08 02:59 PM by Crisco

I figured that was where you were going and frankly, don't care. If someone who did not ordinarily deal with administrative matters wants to talk to the Super, you go to their office, you make an appointment if necessary, or you approach them at the next school board meeting.

But you don't call them at home.

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