I can't believe the cheek of that kid. *eyeroll*

I can't believe the cheek of that woman.

ANYONE who would condone an asshole like this little shit is an idiot.

I hope that anyone who does condone it ends up with THEIR telephone number on Facebook, so that total idiots call THEM at 4 AM.

There is a private zone. It is called the home. You don't call there unless its an EMERGENCY, not because you are a shit little high school moron.

With the person who wrote to Cary about what to do about their partner's flirty MILF who wrote her an email while he was sick.

So taking this real life circumstance, kid calls school administrator at home, his wife calls the kid back to rip him a new one and who ends up looking foolish, the wife who had no business disiplining a child she does not know.

It should have been up to the school administrator to pull the kid into his office and say hey, I understand your frustration, but you do not call me at home.

So I think Cary's advice was spot on, leave the reprimands to the person who is directly involved, don't be some nattering ninny calling up some stranger to rip them a new one.

I'm betting that anybody over 40 is cheering for the wife, while everybody under 30 is solidly in the kid's camp.

FWIW, Kori made the call "on his lunch break", not at 4AM. Perhaps calling someone's home phone number is inappropriate, but I don't see how it justifies the nasty voicemail he received in return. There's no excuse for being un-civil.

And I'm cheering for the kid. He showed initiative, and there's no evidence he was anything but polite in his call. Then an alleged adult got all pissy and childish and left a rude message. And it bit her on the ass.

Good for the kid.

Of course, if the woman left it for her husband in his job capacity to deal with, and he'd hauled the kid in and said, "Calling my home is inappropriate," then fine, though the smart move would have been to call the kid back, say, "I made my decision using the following method, . . . and to conclude, if I determine schools can be open, all students are expected to attend." Don't mention the home phone call. Ignore it. Don't give it power.

By reacting as she did, the woman handed all the power to the kid. Maybe she learned something, though more likely than not she didn't.

But, boy, that kid sure did.

On-message, on-pitch.

I am 30 and think the kid is a little shit, he had no business calling people at home to whine about having to go to school in 3 inches of snow. I still think the wife was a bigger shit for getting into business she shouldn't have. She's not the school admin, she wasn't the intended recipient of the voicemail, she stuck her nose where it didn't belong and when you stick your nose where it doesn't belong, it generally gets snapped with the newspaper. Even when kids are being snot nosed brats, as the adult, you should be using adult language not sniping high school name calling. It's pretty sad when an adult shows themself to be just as immature as a high school kid.

All she had to do was tell her husband that some snot nosed brat called their house and he better handle it. Then no one would know she called a kid a brat and this kid still would have received the you don't call me at home conversation and none of it would have ended up as a facebook prank. Just some kid whining to his group of internet dork friends.

The wife was out of line. "snotty-nosed little brats" ??

She is obviously frustrated with the amount of time her husband spends at work, but to yell at the kid was completely uncalled for... she comes off as a crazed, hateful bitch.

It may have been inappropriate to call the administrator at home, but it was far more inappropriate for this woman to call him back and yell at him in this extremely disrespectful manner.

She obviously never would have behaved this way if she knew that her outburst would become public -- that's a sign right there that she did something wrong.

As for posting it online -- what other recourse did he have, really? He could have complained privately, but there would be no consequences for the wife. When a powerless person is treated unfairly, often the only thing he can do is expose it to a larger audience.

And I don't understand the horror over a kid calling an administrator at home. He should have used the office number, but people act like he spit on the guy's shoes or something. Yes, he's one kid in the system, but fretting over how "dare" he call an administrator... come on. It's not that big a deal, and anyone who thinks it's a horrific offense probably just hates kids.

Has it occured to any of you backing the brat that the phone number also belonged to THE WIFE? It's not as if she was stepping into her husband's work situation here. The kid called HER in the middle of the night just as much as he called her husband. She was woken up as well, you know.

I'd love to see how any of you would react if somebody called YOUR home to harass you about something that happened at your spouse's office. Methinks you'd be bitching quite a different tune then.

"Initiative"? Oh bitch please. Try that initiative on the head of your company the next time you get called in early on a day when you want to sleep late. You'd get canned, and rightly so.

The brat was out of line. He got yelled at. What did he expect, cakes and jam?

Serai1: The kid did not call at 4 a.m. He did not wake her up.

From the Washington Post:

On his lunch break, Lake Braddock senior Devraj "Dave" S. Kori, 17, 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.

Later, other people called her at 4 a.m. but that was after she bitched this kid out.