Taco Bell presents: The Dave Kori and Candy Tistadt Show

I'm sure you've all heard about this by now. High school senior in Virginia calls up public official to ask a question about the snow day policy, and then he receives a harassing and abusive voicemail from the spouse of the public official.

Well I for one would be ashamed to be that public official if my wife was calling up those who made an inquiry of snow day policies. If you haven't heard it, here's a YouTube video of it:


Anyways, to give some background information from what I've gathered. Candy Tistadt is the wife of Dean Tistadt, the public servant working for the Fairfax County Public Schools district (FCPS). Candy herself is an elementary school teacher.

Dave Kori is a senior student at the same school district, and he called up Dean's office on a heavy snow day, to which he couldn't get an answer, and then called the home, a listed number (Public information) and left a message including his name, number, and who he is. Candy reacts. Mind you, according to Kori, and many other people, he says that he wanted some information about the snow day policies (Or something to that effect), not about why Dean Tistadt did not close the schools.

Personally, if I were a parent with a child of mine in Candy Tistadt's classroom, I would insist for a reprimand or even a public apology over this issue. If she treats young people this way, then how would she treat my child if he/she asked her a question that might have been sensitive to Candy? This issue that Kori called about was none of Candy Tistadt's business, and she took this issue so far into her own hands that she denigrated herself and made her true opinions of young people known. She really should be ashamed of herself for doing something so stupid, and if I were Kori, I would probably have called back to tell her that I was questioning a public official, a principal that the United States is built on, and since she isn't that public official in question, she should stay out of this.

However, Kori took it in the wrong direction by making it an internet sensation. He could've blackmailed, but as the old saying goes "hindsight is only 20/20!" Hopefully, Dave will learn that to make a point, he doesn't have to get the WWW involved, he can just call up again and clarify himself to Dean, preferably in his office, not Candy (Although she might also be in Dean's office to fight her hubby's battles!), but we should remember that Kori isn't 25 (The age when the frontal lobes of the brain are fully developed), and neither am I!