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Originally Posted by RACooper
First off calling to question/complain at the official's home number crosses the line and I completely agree with the spouse's reply "Get over it, kid, and go to school!" - whiny little brat complaining because he didn't get to stay home because of 3 inches of snow?!?
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Apparently the student had tried to contact the administrator for weeks at official numbers, to no avail.
The guy's a public official with a listed phone number - he doesn't stop being a public official at the threshold to his home, nor does a daytime phone call affect his privacy.
The kid was taking a role in his own education and questioning a decision that affects him - there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, regardless of the amount of snow. While this issue isn't exactly Tinker v. Board of Education, we should still applaud the kid rather than deriding him as a "whiner," especially given the fact that he has shown no iconoclastic or anti-authority tendencies at all that we know of - kid's not a troublemaker, by all descriptions. By turn, don't you think the woman would have said things a little differently had she known it would be on the news?
There's no need to call the kid a "whiner" - it just makes you sound like Old Man Cooper, who rode uphill both ways through high water, sub-zero temperatures, broken glass, the monster from Cloverfield and attempted pirate rape.
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