Here's an interesting story about a young man and his pursuit of answers...
What's it all about? Well, in a nut shell, a kid wanted to know why school wasn't being canceled due to weather. So he tried the school administrator at work. No luck. After awhile, he looked up the man's home phone and called there, leaving a message with his name and phone number. Next he gets an angry message from the administrator's wife who is more than a little annoyed that their privacy had been violated.
Kori, a member of the Lake Braddock debate team who said his grade-point average is 3.977, said his message was not intended to harass. He said he tried unsuccessfully to contact Dean Tistadt at work and he thought he had a basic right to petition a public official for more information about a decision that affected him and his classmates. He said he was exercising freedom of speech in posting a Facebook page. The differing interpretations of his actions probably stem from "a generation gap," he said.
"People in my generation view privacy differently. We are the cell phone generation. We are used to being reached at all times," he said.
Kori explained his perspective in an e-mail Wednesday to Fairfax County schools spokesman Paul Regnier. Regnier said, also in an e-mail, that Kori's decision to place the phone call to the Tistadts' home was more likely the result of a "civility gap."
"It's really an issue of kids learning what is acceptable and not acceptable. Any call to a public servant's house is harassment," Regnier said.
For more on this article, visit SiliconValley.com to see how social media turned the whole thing into a very public event... It raises some interesting questions about society, privacy and free speech. How you feel about the whole story probably depends on the generation you most associate with.
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