Mommy I want to be a stripper in Life!

[cato2]

What in the world was on this persons mind when he said this to 8th grade class of students? Not only does he make this statement but he embellish's the statement even further! Telling the students for every 2 inchs they can earn $50,000 more a year.

Calif. schoolers told stripping can be lucrative

Management consultant tells eighth-graders
money to be made as an exotic dancer
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:25 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO - The principal of a Palo Alto middle school may not invite a popular speaker back to an annual career day after he told girls they could earn a good living as strippers.

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Management consultant William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School on Tuesday that stripping and exotic dancing can pay $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size.

“It’s sick, but it’s true,” Fried said in an interview later. “The truth of the matter is you can earn a tremendous amount of money as an exotic dancer, if that’s your desire.”

Fried has given a popular 55-minute presentation, “The Secret of a Happy Life,” at the school’s career day the past three years. He counsels students to experiment with a variety of interests until they discover something they love and excel in.

But school principal Joseph Di Salvo said Fried may not be back next year.

The principal said Fried’s comments to the class came after some of them asked him to expand on why he included “exotic dancing” on his list of 140 potential careers.

Fried spent about a minute answering questions, defining strippers and exotic dancers synonymously. According to Jason Garcia, 14, he told students: “For every 2 inches up there, you should get another $50,000 on your salary.”

“A couple of students egged him and he took it hook, line and sinker,” said Di Salvo, who also said the students took advantage of a substitute teacher overseeing the session.

“It’s totally inappropriate,” Di Salvo said. “It’s not OK by me. I would want my presenters to kind of understand that they are coming into a career day for eighth-graders.”

That stripping advice wasn’t the only thing that riled parents. Di Salvo said one mother said she was outraged when her son announced that he was forgoing college for a field he loves: fishing.

“He really focused on finding what you really love to do,” said Mariah Cannon, 13.

Fried, 64, said he does not think he offended any of the students: “Eighth-grade kids are not dumb,” he said. “They are pretty worldly.”

[USMC5831]

Wow just when you thought you heard it all. This guy should not be allowed back in the schoools you should know the crowd before you start talking on stuff like that.

[JohnRN]

Fried, 64, said he does not think he offended any of the students: “Eighth-grade kids are not dumb,” he said. “They are pretty worldly.”

I don't know which world the gentleman lives in but it certainly isn't in mine.

I would hesitate to call myself "worldly" and I'm in college.

I certainly recall my glory days in 8th grade - a better bunch of fools you could not have met in this world!

[Woodmonkey]

I had a 14 year old student who's goal in life was to be a topless dancer like her mother, and aunt. Her brother, a year older, wound up in juvie for stealing cars. Their father was in the Oregon pen for drug dealing.

Nice family. Nice rolemodels.

All kids like this need is some yahoo coming in and saying it is a viable choice.

[Betty Boop]

At first I saw the title and thought to myself, "Okay, youngest daughter has signed up and on and is being her usual OUTRAGEOUS self" - and then I saw Cato's name as the originator of the thread. I breathed a lot easier when I saw that.

But, 13- and 14- year-olds today are looking at the world through the eyes of a medium that is uncontrolled in most homes and realistically in most theaters and wanting to aspire to that image and "maturity" because they don't see society "tabus" on it as existed when we were those ages. Before we "down" the presenter, perhaps we ought to start, as parents, looking at ourselves and our responsibilities and what images we are allowing to fill our kids' minds and then talk with our kids about the visuals they are taking in.

As for my youngest daughter, SNP and I have threatened to lock her in her room until she is 100, if she doesn't stop with such outrageous statements to get so much attention!

[JohnRN]

Have y'all seen the movie "Thirteen" ?

It certainly changed my life - if the least it did was open me eyes a bit more...

[GoddessLindsey]

That is absolutley insane. I'd be all over the school board and that idiot's representatives (if he has any) if my child attended that school. Literally makes me ill.