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Should Elementary Schools Hold Beauty Pageants?
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Parents in South Carolina are up in arms after their kids were encouraged to compete in a beauty pageant at their elementary school. Though organizers insist that it's no different from a sporting event or a dance contest, outraged parents say that schools have no business judging kids based on their looks.
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"Come be the first Warrior King or Warrior Queen of Indian Land Elementary! Represent your school all year long during school events!" the flier read. "Contestants will be judged on facial beauty, personality, and overall appeal."
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According to the three-page flier, prizes would be awarded at the October 20th pageant for "Best Eyes," "Best Hair," "Best Smile," "Best Dressed," and "Most Beautiful," which would be "based upon the contestant's facial beauty score only." Boys and girls could also submit photos to win additional awards, and could collect signatures to vie for the "Sweetheart" title. The flier included instructions on how to walk, turn, and pose for the judges.
Read on to learn more about beauty pageants in elementary schools.
"Trying to develop good self esteem in children is hard enough without something like this being pushed at their school," wrote Nita Buck of Rock Hill, South Carolina, a retired teacher whose grandchild attends Indian Land Elementary School.
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"This is not 'Honey Boo Boo Child.' This is not 'Toddlers and Tiaras.' This is an opportunity for the children to come up, shine, and be themselves on stage," Tracy Hyland, who helped organize the event, told WBTV.
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"As a parent, watching my child go across the stage, it's wonderful," added Hyland, a national certified pageant judge who has been involved in pageants with her daughter for 20 years. "Let's think about the other activities children do—football, dance, soccer, swimming, ice-skating—all of those things are judged."
Hyland said that the pageant—which could cost more than $100 for a contestant and a parent to attend—was supposed to raise funds to buy "surprise" playground equipment for the school. The flier does not describe the event as a fundraiser and does not mention how the money would be spent. The school's principal, Beth Blum, told Yahoo! Shine that Hyland was not affiliated with Indian Land Elementary School.
"I don't know her at all," Blum said. Though she normally checks out any information that members of the community want to send to parents, in this particular case, the flier was printed and brought to the school for distribution without Blum having approved it. "It got by us," she told Yahoo! Shine.
When parents saw the flier in their children's backpacks on Friday, they were outraged. Jessica Champagne launched a Change.org petition, calling on Indian Land Elementary School to distance itself from the beauty pageant. (Though the event was in the school's name, it was to take place at a nearby church, with early registration held in the school's parking lot.)
"We live in a society where 6-year-olds have eating disorders and distorted body image issues. This kind of event feeds directly into these types of insecurities and the vapid idea that beauty is paramount to a person's value and self-worth," she wrote in her petition, which has 140 signatures. "We should not be teaching young children, who are in the process of developing their own social mores, memes and hierarchies that it is acceptable to judge people based on their looks. This event contradicts the values we teach our children and should NOT be sanctioned by the school."
Jessica Dodson, who started a Facebook page protesting the pageant, told the Charlotte Observer that her daughter came home in tears because she didn't think she was pretty enough to enter the contest, let alone win it.
"That they would base the criteria of choosing the Indian Land king and queen on facial beauty, it was horrific and a little bit revolting," Dodson, a mother of five, told NBC News in Charlotte.
Early Saturday morning the school's principal, Beth Blum, sent out an email saying that the pageant had been cancelled, triggering a second wave of discussion among parents.
"My kids go to this school...1st, 3rd, and 5th grades," Kristi Westphal wrote a local news station's Facebook page. "I never once got a letter about a beauty pageant until today when I received a cancellation email. Who knew!?! I don't agree with it at all, though."
Lancaster County School District representative David Knight told WSOC-TV that the district was not involved with the pageant plan.
"The district doesn't sanction this, did not organize it, none of that," Knight said. "All we do is what we usually do when a community event is going on for kids, we try to help publicize it by sending out flyers."
Some people have suggested that the school revamp the event into a talent contest. Others told NBC News in Charlotte that they were angry about the cancellation and are working on a petition to bring the pageant back.
"As the mother of two girls I see nothing wrong with a pageant," Melissa Rosenbaum of Indian Trail, South Carolina, posted on Facebook. "I don't think it sends a message that isn't already put out there by every media outlet. If your kids can't be secure enough to put themselves out there then don't let them go. Don't ruin something for everyone else. Disappointment is a fact of life; it is how you teach them to deal with it that matters. Grow up people."
What do you think? Should elementary schools hold beauty pageants?
— Lylah M. Alphonse
Copyright © 2012 Yahoo Inc.
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Lex Doothis was the founder and first Overlord of Haffaton. An adventurous warlord, he crossed an Ocean before finding and conquering Level 2 Barbarian City at a Capital Site. He established Haffaton upon that spot.
Under Lex's leadership, Haffaton slowly grew. Its conquest was briefly brought to a halt by a conflict with a pair of allied sides known as Easteros and Westeregg. Charlie, the ruler of a side called el-Efbaum, who had fought a long two front war with them offered alliance with Haffaton. By pooling Haffaton's Thinkamancer and Predictamancer with El-Efbaum's Lookamancer and Findamancer, their casters managed to produce a Summon Perfect Warlord Spell.
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The name is likely a play on the phrase "Let's do this," the rallying cry of many an impulsive thrill-seeker, and also the name of Superman arch-baddie Lex Luthor.
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Wrt to SpecOps' hype, I initially had a similar reaction as you expressed above when I saw their first generation web copy, but closely scrutinizing a succeeding version, they actually made a small bit of effort to explain some technical details behind what would possibly make David an improvement over WINE. Still far too little though, and now such details are gone again.

I don't think that hardcore geeks in the Philippines are just limited to Linux. I know a fair number of .NET-wielding and C++ hacking Windows geeks. ;) Although Microsoft doesn't really do development in the Philippines, there's still a lively developer community. I remember joining a well-attended Microsoft <nop>DevStock convention in Manila.
So yes, there are hardcore Windows programmers. In fact, they're quite cool.
They'd have no reason to work with <nop>SpecOps, though. Why bother?
With regard to Spec<nop>Ops' hype: explanations of technical details are just handwaving until they show us a product, not a rigged demo of someone else's code. Considering that they were supposed to have a working demo last year--or was that two years ago?--then they _really_ should have something to show for all their time, money, and hype about contracts here and agreements there.
Too little, too late.
I don't know how they managed to get people mixed up in it. I'm _so_ curious about <nop>SpecOps now. I want to know the whole story. For example, Caslon Chua's name has been liberally splashed over the story from the beginning. I've been wondering why he hasn't backed out of it, given that he's with DLSU. I always thought teachers needed better BS detection filters than most people, or else students would have a far too easy time with their subjects. I think he's probably bought into it big, and he can't afford to discredit them or pull out because he'd lose his investment. What's up with Turbolinux, too?
I have very good reasons to believe that <nop>SpecOps name-drops more than it should, which is one of the reasons why I don't like them. I find it difficult to trust a company that's so... well... "trying hard."
Still, maybe they're on to something.
Riight. More likely that they're on something.
Samuel 17:40? More like Jeremiah 9:3.
(By the way, I'm ordinarily a very nice person. But <nop>SpecOps insulted the talent in my country and made a laughingstock of us on Slashdot not just once, but every time they've made it there. I get along with business people, but I want business to be backed by substance.)
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David smells to me like Freedows redux, except on a bigger scale and with commercial vendors sucked in by the hype.

The media have been too kind to <nop>SpecOps, but I'm glad that Chin Wong and other writers don't just publish the company's press releases but also report the other side of the story.
You know, one of the things I would _definitely_ like to read--would even pay a reasonable price for--would be an account of what's _really_ going on at <nop>SpecOps. How long are NDAs binding? When can a journalist get in there and crack this case wide open? Do you think any whistleblowers will come forth? I can smell a nice business book coming out of all of this; heck, even a documentary like the one on Enron... Heck, I'd be really amused by even a hype-laden we-are-the-best book or press release.
Seeing a company spiral into the depths is strangely fascinating. Their last-ditch attempts remind me of someone grasping at straws. They complained about the lack of talent in the Philippines and made some noises about outsourcing, then they showed up at <nop>LinuxWorld Philippines soliciting random people for cold interviews. They've even tried appealing to people's greed with an unrealistic contest.
When the company dissolves and the NDAs are no longer in force, I want to find out the whole story. I want to piece together exactly what happened. I want to see what's on the other side. I want to know why they're doing this, what pressures they're facing. I want to be able to say I understand both sides. I would _love_ to talk to their HR person after all of this is over. Wow, what a challenge. What a tough job. And oh, what lessons we could learn from all of this.
No, it's not crab mentality. We're not trying to prevent them from succeeding. We just won't take BS from them.
You know what could save them at this point?
A confession. An apology. A much more realistic and humble plan to make things work.
I don't think they're going to do that any time soon, so pass me the popcorn. We'll sit back and watch the Titanic sink. And then we'll wait for the book.
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Role models are important to me. Job titles don't tell me enough about work, but people's stories show me what I want for my own life. When I read people's stories, I find aspects that I'd like to include in my life. I learn about skills I need to develop. I find names for the things I want to do.
I'm going to share my role models with you as I discover them. You'll get a sense of what I want to do, and you might find some of these role models also inspiring.
Today from tech.memeorandum: Marissa Mayer of Google.
Managing Google's Idea Factory: Marissa Mayer helps the search giant out-think its rivals
 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_40/b3953093.htm
What Mayer does is help figure out how to make sure good ideas bubble to the surface and get the attention they need.

I want to do that. I want to be exposed to all sorts of ideas bubbling around me. I want to listen and draw ideas out. I want to connect people to other people and resources they need to make their ideas reality. I want to know who's doing what and make it easier for them to do it.
I'll need to work on:
- listening really well - evaluating ideas quickly - combining ideas in my head - remembering people's names, faces, and interests - meeting more people
Please be nice to the wiki or I'm going to make it read-only. =) Feel free to leave comments, just make it easy for people to tell the difference between your thoughts and mine.
Right. Hence the "SHEESH. Shame on all of you." comment in 2005.09.17#5.
In fact, open source companies have done a _lot_ worse. Was that Red Hat with a poster of an almost-naked women with... err... just a strategically placed penguin or something like that?
And they wonder why girls don't really like tech.
_Definitely_ one of the things that gets my goat.


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