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Stripping, pimping on students' career list?
HindustanTimes.com ^ | Wellington, November 13 2004 | AFP

Posted on 11/13/2004 7:27:19 PM PST by AM2000

Students at a New Zealand secondary school have listed prostitution and drug dealing on a list of desirable careers.

The job list, which also includes stripping and pimping, appeared in the year book at Kawerau College in the central North Island.

The book featured students' hopes about what they would like to do when they leave school and included suggestions such as brothel worker, drug lord, dope dealer, dope packer, stripper, pimp, beneficiary, druggie and "living on the street".

The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, said Saturday that the legalising of prostitution in New Zealand earlier this year had created a climate in which students viewed prostitution, pimping and stripping as attractive and viable forms of legal work.

The yearbook probably represented the values of many young people, the morals watchdog said in a statement.

Kawerau College said it has recalled the yearbook following a complaint from a parent.

College principal Steve Hocking said the book was put together by students under the supervision of a junior teacher.

Someone at a senior management level was supposed to look at it before it was printed, but that was not done, he said.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: newzealand
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1 posted on 11/13/2004 7:27:20 PM PST by AM2000
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To: AM2000

are this students beign satirical and rebelious?

or are they serious?


2 posted on 11/13/2004 7:30:53 PM PST by atari
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To: AM2000

Well, one can became a drug lord only after a long and distinguished career. I doubt that many of these HS students would make it.


3 posted on 11/13/2004 7:32:04 PM PST by GSlob
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To: shaggy eel; Brian Allen

Not surprising from the outcome of anything-goes values-free education we get in this country. Having said this, however, there are still many schools resisting this relativistic mindset - Kings, AGS, Macleans, EGGS, Rangitoto, etc - but they seem to attract more ridicule than praise in this PC paradise.

Ping to you guys!


4 posted on 11/13/2004 7:33:33 PM PST by NZerFromHK ("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
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To: AM2000

Great career choices, huh?


5 posted on 11/13/2004 7:33:44 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: AM2000

Anyone remember the 1980's Nancy Reagan Anti-Drug commercial that ended with the line, "No one says they want to be a drug addict when they grow up"?

3rd grade year book, smack in the middle of the 1980's.


6 posted on 11/13/2004 7:33:52 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Fiddlstix

Symptoms of hoplessness.


7 posted on 11/13/2004 7:35:04 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: AM2000

Outstanding. They can go to Berkeley or Harvard for their post-graduate work.


11 posted on 11/13/2004 7:43:13 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Gun-control is leftist mind-control.)
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Stripping, pimping on students' career list?

Highly desirable vocations for getting a job at the U.N.

12 posted on 11/13/2004 7:44:15 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Gun-control is leftist mind-control.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

They don't have to. They can get the same education (with same content) at New Zealand's univerities with much less costs - NZ$3,000 per year (US$2,100) courtey of government funding. Which just shows the bankruptcy of contemporary tertiary arts/humanities education - a BA from Harvard is no different from Otago.


14 posted on 11/13/2004 7:48:23 PM PST by NZerFromHK ("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
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To: AM2000

Lighten up, everybody. The kids were kidding around.


15 posted on 11/13/2004 7:55:08 PM PST by ultima ratio
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To: atari

They're high school kids, figure it out.


16 posted on 11/13/2004 7:56:27 PM PST by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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To: atari
"are this students being satirical and rebelious? "

Almost certainly. The kids are having a joke.

17 posted on 11/13/2004 7:57:00 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: atari

That's what I was thinking too.


18 posted on 11/13/2004 7:59:23 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: AM2000
The book featured students' hopes about what they would like to do when they leave school and included suggestions such as brothel worker, drug lord, dope dealer, dope packer, stripper, pimp, beneficiary, druggie and "living on the street".

LOL....

Mommy can I be a beneficiary when I grow up??

19 posted on 11/13/2004 8:34:54 PM PST by GeronL (http://images7.fotki.com/v125/photos/2/215708/780411/reow-vi.jpg?1100155138)
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To: atari

Sounds like truthful responses.... in an inner-city high school..


20 posted on 11/13/2004 8:35:20 PM PST by GeronL (http://images7.fotki.com/v125/photos/2/215708/780411/reow-vi.jpg?1100155138)
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