Anyone who has ever been to The Thinker for anything more than a cursory look knows that I write primarily about the standards of learning in education; moreover, the passion that drives me is in the notion that this phenomenon is permeating every aspect of America’s convenience-oriented society.
Metaphorically, the bar is like a regular track-and-field ‘high-jump’ bar. When a high jumper clears the height of the bar he goes to the next level. Yet, if the jumper doesn’t clear the height, subsequently, the bar is lowered to a level that the high jumper can clear. I write about American society and how through the years, our bar of acceptable standards continues to be lowered.
After receiving an estimated three inches of snow, Devraj “Dave” S. Kori, a 17-year-old senior at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia decided that it should be a snow day. Moreover, young Kori felt that the school should have had additional snow days and cancelled classes.
On his lunch break, Devraj Kori, used a listed home phone number to call Dean Tistadt, chief operating officer for the county system, to ask why he had not closed the schools. Kori left his name and phone number and got a message later in the day from Tistadt’s wife.
Candy Tistadt’s return phone message to Kori’s cell phone is not what is at issue here. Normally that would have been the end of this story. But noooooo! It seems that young Kori decided that he should have the last word and through some nifty technology ended up posting an audio file with the content of Mrs. Tistadt’s voice message on Facebook and You Tube.
Needless to say the Tistadt’s received dozens more calls that day and night, Dean Tistadt said. Most were hang-ups, but at one point, they were coming every five minutes until about 4:00 AM. Furthermore, by sunrise approximately 9,000 people had seen the sites and the majority of comments contained information largely about what constitutes proper and polite requests for public information from students.
Kori stated that his message did not intend to harass the Dean or his wife; adding that he thought he had a basic right to petition a public official; moreover, Kori said he was exercising freedom of speech in posting the content on a Facebook page.
When I first heard of this debauchery, I immediately felt something was not right with this account. Seriously now folks, if one doesn’t intend to harass one certainly does not post audio files to two of the most trafficked Internet sites.
This issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the 1st Amendment! Does anyone think the Founder’s meant ‘right to petition’ under these rude and careless tactics? How about exercising his right to ‘freedom of speech’ by posting names, phone numbers, and asking t’weens what they think? By the way, Fairfax County is located in Northern Virginia, as is the Pentagon, CIA, several defense agencies, and about 300-years of history; do you think this might be where Washington’s ‘privileged’ get trained?
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