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"Students Call Officials' Homes When School Isn't Called Off For Snow Administrators Receives Calls, Threatening E-Mail FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. -- Fairfax County school administrators' decision to keep schools open on Thursday despite snow is causing some controversy, Julie Carey reported First On 4. School officials said that students have been venting their feelings about the decision by calling administrators at home and even sending threatening e-mail. To make matters worse, the wife of an administrator who was called at home fired back with her own phone call, creating more controversy, Carey reported. Long before the snow started falling early Thursday morning, Dean Tistadt was awake, studying forecasts and consulting with other administrators before making the decision to hold class. As the chief operating officer for facilities and transportation, he has become the public face of school closing decisions. But recently, this role has resulted in dozens of phone calls to his home, many from students and some in the middle of the night. Other students have sent profane e-mails to the administration. "That is totally inappropriate for kids to be calling individuals that are working for the school system at their home numbers. There is no reason for that," said Paul Regnier of Fairfax County Public Schools. One e-mail to another administrator even made physical threats. School officials said they've had enough, and they plan to act. "We are going to identify who the senders are. We are going to notify their schools, and in the case of the actual threat, we are going to involve the police," Regnier said. Controversy has also erupted because of a voice mail message a Lake Braddock High School senior has posted online as a way of protesting the decision to hold school. The student had called Dean Tistadt at home on Thursday and left a message questioning the decision. The student has now posted the blistering callback he received from Tistdadt's wife, Candy. "How dare you call us at home," Candy Tistdadt said. "If you've got a problem going to school, you do not call somebody's house and complain about it." More than 600 have already listened to the call online. Dean Tistadt told News4 his wife reacted emotionally after finding more than a dozen messages and after being awakened by other calls. "My wife get very defensive over what she perceives to be the vilification of me… she takes it very personally," Dean Tistadt said. "This is a guy who's doing great work for the school system, for kids, and here you are harassing him. She got a little emotional I suppose, but I think it's understandable in those circumstances," Regnier said. The student defends his decision to call the chief operating officer at home. "I have the support of my peers, which definitely makes me a little more secure in my decision to talk about this and to make this public. I even have the support of the Bill of Rights. We're allowed to petition our public officials," the high school senior said. Dean Tistadt said he plans to end the phone calls at home. He is putting a call-blocking service on the line. He has contacted Fairfax County police about the calls, which he considers to be harassment."

http://www.nbc4.com/education/15087999/detail.html

AUDIO IS ON THE YAHOO! HOMEPAGE

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM. Reason : fdfs]

1/23/2008 9:25:09 PM

I like how they say "And even made physical threats!" like the kids said they were going to slit their throats or something. It could have meant "We'll kick your ass" or something totally vague that was just a saying.

1/23/2008 9:31:47 PM

this was on CNN this morning

1/23/2008 9:39:39 PM

Fuck that little faggot. I work in administration at a school system and see some of these disrespectful little shits at our high school. I've even had a few try and talk shit to me. I don't "report them" or anything, I just call them out right there in class in front of whoever and make them look like fucking idiots.

If you call me at work with a problem with how something is going on or how I handled a situation, I've got no problem with that. Even if I think its stupid I will do that. I deal with dumbass teachers all the time who don't understand why they can't print to every printer in the damn school on their computer, or why they can't see their address book on the webmail client, or what the fuck ever. You call me at home and try to talk shit to me, and I'd have done and said a lot worse then that lady did. And then the principal would be meeting with you the next day to discuss how many days you were going to be suspended.

Fuck these arrogant cocksuckers these days. I ain't been out of HS but about 7 years, but I know we didn't act like that when we were at HS.

1/23/2008 9:42:28 PM

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""I have the support of my peers, which definitely makes me a little more secure in my decision to talk about this and to make this public. I even have the support of the Bill of Rights. We're allowed to petition our public officials," the high school senior said."

The kid's right. I mean, it's rude when it's en masse, but there's very little the dude can do about these kids calling a listed phone number to talk to him. If they can prove harassment or threats, that's different. It sounds like they're just calling to be annoying more than anything else.

I never heard of anyone doing this when I was in high school. In any case, he could just unplug his phone. He probably has a cell phone anyway.

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1/23/2008 9:44:01 PM