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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That's a nice patina on that piece of furniture. Looks like it is an early 19th century walnut or mahogany piece. Or is it a reproduction ? Many antiques dealers are very clever at making new furniture look old. Chains, coffee stains, bashing an old bit of wood around, smoke rooms, false papers etc.
Nah, it's repro. Look to the right. You can see the plywood in the box there.
Good money, but they can't use it to buy their hearts back.
Yes that kind of stripping is lucrative as well. I wanted to have a ceder chest done. $500.00. Ended up doing it myself.
I think so, too. And encouraging little girls to wear a line of clothing that has "Porn Star" written on the clothes in glitter helps, too. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw a 9-yr old turn up at after school recreational program run by a friend wearing a "Porn Star" top. My friend made the girl put another tee shirt over it - and the parents couldn't understand why.
I think Hell has just about used up all it's allocation of large hand baskets.
I think some parents need to get together a tar-and-feather party not only for Mr. brain-Fried but also for the principals, guidance counselors and middle school teachers of this obscene "school". Enough is enough. This is child abuse.
I wonder what happened to that sexy buck-toothed cookie?
I heard this on the news this morning!
Wasn't there a teacher or other reasonable adult in the room to stop him before he got too far down this path?
Unbelievable! And this is his 3rd year doing this....
Read the story again...
He was advocating stripping as LUCRATIVE... for those who ARE fixated on $$$.
Many attorneys make that much and more without sex involved...well, not sex like you'd commonly describe, er, sex...
I'm talking about people in the massage industry. Follow the thread.
Here we have the natural result of a "values-free" approach to education.
There are quite a few attorneys in the "massage" industry...they're just not massaging bodys. [heh]
I've made close to $500 an hour myself on a few jobs, with no sex involved. It's amazing what some of us with no advanced degrees can make.
This is one of the "better" school districts in the area.
We have been discussing inexpensive ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84
The thread title was not well thought out, because some parents might instinctively skip over it due to attached stigma, whether real or imagined.
250,000 bills tall?
I've seen adults wear those shirts but never a child. That's really disgusting.
It can be a chilling experience in the wrong climate.
Didn't Monica get an $80k a year job at Revlon for giving blow jobs and keeping quiet about it?
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