Posted on 01/13/2005 5:05:09 PM PST by 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,"
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He saves that speech for 10-12'th graders.
But she didn't tell them the secret to success. You have to look like Jenny McCarthy.
This is why we send our kids to school?
I think I'd have to know more about the context here before coming to a final judgement.
Sure, maybe he shouldn't have been talking to 13-year-olds about stripping at all, but there's a big difference between encouraging them to become strippers, and using stripping as a cautionary example of why you shouldn't be fixated on money.
I agree.
What the hell was this guy thinking?
Now if he had advocated that position at a college job fair...well, that'd probably be OK.
LOL
Good reason to homeschool #1231
Something tells me this guy over-thinks everything.
You haven't heard of the new government Visa program to allow foreign strippers into the country . . . H1-36B
remember good ole STRIPPYMOM? ; )
He's telling the truth.
MTV has a lot to do with this.
I don't doubt it. I just think it funny to picture him running the calculations in the strip club. lol
And you know this how?!
I worked with a girl who did body rubbing at $500 per hour. She thought I'd make a good body rubbing girl and I didn't want to. Not only would my father come back from the dead but he'd take me back with him too! You'd be surprised what men will pay for. There's a whole underground business that the government would love to tax to death. Half of college girls are probably stripping IMHO.
,,, competant cost clerks like him are welcome at my parties any time.
I will add that the stripping trade appeals to a lot of girls with low self esteem. When you don't think you're pretty, and someone comes along and says 'you'd make a hot stripper' a lot of girls do it.
Another reason to abolish the IRS and go with the National Sales Tax.
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