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."
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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."
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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
