Speaker tells Palo Alto students that stripping can be lucrative

AP ^ | 1/13/5 | BILEN MESFIN

[SmithL]

School officials in Palo Alto are reconsidering their use of a popular speaker for an annual career day after he advised middle school students that they could earn a good living as strip dancers.

William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School that stripping and exotic dancing could be lucrative career moves for girls, offering as much as $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size.

"It's sick, but it's true," Fried, president of Foster City's Precision Selling, a management consulting firm, told The Associated Press. "The truth of the matter is you can earn a tremendous amount of money as an exotic dancer, if that's your desire."

The school has asked Fried to give his 55-minute presentation, "The Secret of a Happy Life," for the past three years.

A tip sheet he distributes to students includes a list of 140 potential careers and areas of interest they can consider pursuing. Along with professions as accounting and nursing, the list offers such nontraditional suggestions as exotic dancing, stripping and acting as a spiritual medium.

He counsels students to experiment with a variety of interests until they discover their "life's purpose," something they love and excel in. The presentation and handout have been praised by students, school principal Joseph Di Salvo and others said.

Fried's presentation "helped me realize that my career choice should not be influenced by money," one student wrote in a thank-you letter. "It should be influenced by what we like and are good at."

But on Tuesday, some students asked Fried to expand on why he included "exotic dancing" on the list.

Fried spent about a minute answering questions, defining strippers and exotic dancers synonymously. He told students, "For every two inches up there, you should get another $50,000 on your salary,"

[SmithL]

Your public-education tax dollars at work and play.

[montag813]

Speaker tells Palo Alto students that stripping can be lucrative

Well...it is true.

[snopercod]

What this really is is a crusade against the underground econonomy.

[billorites]

"offering as much as $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size."

In business news, Chesty Enterprises warned of flattened earnings this quarter.

[ThinkDifferent]

He told students, "For every two inches up there, you should get another $50,000 on your salary,"

You know, that might not be a bad way to teach algebra.

[bigsigh]

excellent case study in capitalism.

[SC Swamp Fox]

William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School that stripping and exotic dancing could be lucrative career moves for girls, offering as much as $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size.

JD Ping.

[Fenris6]

Encouraging 8th grade girls to enslave themselves to the exotic dancer industry.... I know alot (Austin/Dallas) of dancers - every one is a tale of harrassment, abuse, and addiction.

I don't know whats more outrageous - the idiot's comments or the fact that I'm no longer surprised by these kind of stories.

[SpyGuy]

<sarcasm>Gee, why didn't he just go all the way and advocate porn star or prostitute? According to Hollywood, those are both respectable and lucrative career choices for young girls. The school could even bring in Paris Hilton as a "show & tell" example.</sarcasm>

[MisterRepublican]

Gee, he should have told them that porn movies and prostitution are lucrative, too. Shoot he should have mentioned drug-dealing while he was at it!

[Mr. Jeeves]

He told students, "For every two inches up there, you should get another $50,000 on your salary,"

Or, if you adopt a more traditional route, another $50,000 on your prospective husband's salary. ;)

[bigsigh]

whatever, I don't have a problem if they decide to do that. Not my responsibility to control their decision.

[SpyGuy]

Not my responsibility to control their decision.

But is it the place of publicly-funded "educators" to be advocating these "career choices" for naïve and impressionable 12-14 year old girls? Would you like your young daughter to go to school and receive this kind of education?

[Flavius]

I suppose it's better then watching your job getting outsourced, I think the chicoms dont have us on bust size yet.

[MediaMole]

Any man who would advocate a career in stripping to 12-year-old girls is in dire need of an ass kicking.

[livius]

Somebody must be giving these girls this message all over the country. Here in Florida, you'd be surprised how many nice, well-brought up young women at the University of Florida work in the "We Bare All" truckstops around here, stripping and giving lapdances. A friend of mine rented a mother-in-law apartment to a student who did this; the girl said, "what's the big deal, it's good money."

So sure, go ahead, if it's good money, what the heck. That, at any rate, is obviously what kids are learning nowadays.

[bigsigh]

soory, I read Palo Alto and thought it was at Stanford. Can't fault a girl for earning her way through Stanford law. 14 may be ajust a tad too young.

Seriously, I don't know why these schools do any of this crap, except that there is a lack of moral compass and even common sense.

Your question about what would someone do with their own kids would get to the heart of the matter. Some of these dweebs don't seem to mind even then.

[steplock]

One more candidate for the Firing Squad!

[BurbankKarl]

http://www.thelibraryusa.com/videoWMP.htm

[beaversmom]

Cannon also said she wouldn't want exotic dancing taken off Fried's list. Although parents might find it hard to hear, it's a legitimate career choice, she said.

This 13 year old girl has probably been irreparably warped by the public school system, permissive parents, and MTV.