Posted on 06/17/2004 7:21:12 AM PDT by esryle
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- When Covington schools Superintendent Jack Moreland saw an advertisement for a Chippendales show, he thought it would be a good morale booster for his female employees. So he shelled out $420 to send 20 female staff members to a Chippendales show to see buff men strip off most of their clothing.
It worked, but it also raised the ire of at least one person, who wrote an anonymous letter to the state Office of Education Accountability accusing Moreland of using school-district funds to pay for the strip show.
Moreland said he spent $420 of his own money for the show - and faxed his personal credit-card receipt to investigators.
"I did it in fun, and they went in fun, and I don't think there was any harm done," he said.
Bryan Jones, a lawyer for the Office of Education Accountability, said he couldn't confirm or deny whether his office looked into a complaint.
The women who attended the show said they enjoyed it.
"We just laughed and laughed and laughed," said Jena Meehan, the superintendent's secretary. "It was a spectacle, to be sure, and to have all of us there was even funnier."
Chippendales is a high-class male revue that became popular in the 1980s. Well-muscled young men wearing bow-ties and bare chests strip to scanty undies for female audiences.
Moreland is the former president of the Council for Better Education, the superintendents group that brought the historic lawsuit that resulted in the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 and its revolutionary reform of Kentucky's public schools.
It doesn't cramp my style at all Danny, and there are very few people who think like you, I simply do not let them near my kids.
You see, in spite of yours and Hillary Clinton's arguments, my kids don't need your village.
They have me.
LOL!!!
Imagine that, all these righteous people going off half-cocked!
"We just laughed and laughed and laughed," said Jena Meehan, the superintendent's secretary. "It was a spectacle, to be sure, and to have all of us there was even funnier."
code words for we were getting hornier and hornier and were embarassed because we were getty horny in front of our friends.
the latter. i'd have said what i really thought, but I decided to just be done with him instead of continuing on the same pointless vein.
i'm sorry your world is so black and white - it must be a very dull place
Of course, you probably think that it's good that the public school is teaching your kids: how to put condoms on bananas, that the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians instead of to God and that Ramadan is good, all religions are equal, all cultures are equal and that socialism is good. That's probably the curriculum you approved isn't it?
No, I don't trust the system, and your comments on this page about what you would teach second graders is all the reason I need not to trust it.
I'm sorry your children and their children to follow and their children to follow, etc. have to reinvent the ethical wheel, constructing it piece by piece for their own lives instead of learning from absolute wisdom passed down from previous generations. Think of it: You've passed down no convictions, no absolutes, no values, no tenets, nothing except a few guidelines to give them a head start in life. Instead, you've left it up to them to figure out everything, telling them: "Sorry, my own legacy is for you to start from scratch like I did."
i don't have kids yet, but don't assume you know what i will teach my children. in fact, don't assume you know anything about me at all. You have my reaction to one utterly benign issue and you believe you know my moral stance in life and what I will pass along. Very presumptive. And utterly incorrect.
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