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.
Let's see. I was 16 once, and I certainly remember the fun of writing stupid answers into stupid surveys.
Frankly, the fact that somebody is taking this seriously is going to have these kids laughing for months.
I remember when we were in 8th grade, we had to take a standardized, anonymous survey from the State about drug use and sex habits. Questions like "what drugs have you experimented with and how often" and questions about sex.
Most folks in my class, it would seem, were 3-times a day heroin users who'd been having sex with 8 partners and tripping on acid since they were 12.
Obviously you can't take this too seriously!
Sounds like a school in north Omaha....only there the kids are serious, and not being sarcastic.
I would expect so. When I was young, if people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I gave answers like, mob lawyer, mercenary and (in keeping with the other two) psychopathic killer.
I'm actually a network administrator. I only do those other things on the side.
,,, off with Steve's head. He carries the can for what's coming out of his school, yearbook or no yearbook.
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