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.
are this students beign satirical and rebelious?
or are they serious?
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.
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!
Great career choices, huh?
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.
Symptoms of hoplessness.
Outstanding. They can go to Berkeley or Harvard for their post-graduate work.
Highly desirable vocations for getting a job at the U.N.
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.
Lighten up, everybody. The kids were kidding around.
They're high school kids, figure it out.
Almost certainly. The kids are having a joke.
That's what I was thinking too.
LOL....
Mommy can I be a beneficiary when I grow up??
Sounds like truthful responses.... in an inner-city high school..
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