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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Helicopter Parents Sunday, April 20, 2008 Helicopter Parents Amusing story about a Houston TV station that did some actual reporting, busting the head of a local degree mill in the act of trying to trade sex for a high school diploma. The woman getting in Jordan's passenger seat is a parent who's been trying to get her 18 year daughter enrolled in Jordan's school. "She hadn't passed the TAKS test and she hasn't got all her credits, that's the reason we are going to that school," the mother told us. A fee to the school and some course work can get students a diploma without passing the required state test at Parkway Christian School, where the Web site boasts, "a program based on Christian character, morals, values and integrity." ... Jordan: "For the uh, enrollment fee and stuff like that, maybe you and I can do something, you think?" Mother: "Yeah, what, I mean what, what, you gonna wipe out all the fees?" Jordan: "All the enrollment fees." Mother: "All the enrollment fees?" Jordan: "Three hundred dollars." Mother: "So you gonna wipe everything if me and you get together?" Jordan: "The enrollment fee, yeah." Mother: "Ok." Jordan: "If you and I get together." Mother: "What you mean? I mean, what? Jordan: "Excuse me and I don't mean to be so blunt but I am talking about f------ you." Mother: "You talking about what?" Jordan: "F------ you." ... Jordan: "For the $300 I would expect maybe we could get together several times, you think?" Mother: "Several times, whatcha mean several times?" Jordan: "Well I don't know, you might like whatcha getting." I think the helicopter parents are getting out of hand. It used to be they'd just yell at teachers for not giving little Bobby or Suzie an A, or swoop in to do their little dear's laundry or solve their other problems. I can see helping your kid with their homework or giving them moral support, but honestly, if there's sex required, I think the kid should have to take care of that themselves. I also enjoyed the awkwardness of the guy's segue from innuendo to honestly saying what he wanted. That's always a tricky moment in a M/F relationship; one partner (usually the man) knows what he wants and wants to be sure the woman knows too, but how to slip it into the conversation? You don't want to be too crude or blunt, but you don't want to just hint at things and never get to the point. I don't think Principal Jordan's technique here is exactly one to emulate, but he's not the only man to stumble over this kind of interpersonal subtlety. Labels: education, sex Posted by: Flux # 3:48 PM Comments: "That's always a tricky moment in a relationship; one partner (usually the man) knows what he wants and wants to be sure the woman knows too, but how to slip it into the conversation?" It's so much easier with gay men. All it can take is a glance. #: 5:34 PM posted by Anonymous Actually I was gilding the lily. The woman (all women) knows what the man (all men) want, unless she's extremely naive or delusional. As numerous studies cited in The Evolution of Desire and other such books I've reviewed point out. The trickiness is in turning the conversation/relationship in a sexual direction without being so crude or overt that it makes it seem that sex is all you (the man) wants. As the aforementioned book makes clear, it's not that women don't want sex, it's that they attach far more emotional meaning and importance to it than men do. Women have a greater idea of the value of sex, since they see how much men will do to get it. Up to and including ruining their lives and careers, as the Christian school guy in this story demonstrates. #: 5:52 PM posted by Flux Splitting hairs here, but the sex was technically payment of enrollment fees, not a diploma. From the woman's dialect, I'd say it's more an act of cutting out the middle man than anything else. #: 6:59 AM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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