"Forget Paris"

The producers of "The Simple Life: Interns" recently approached a New Jersey school about filming an episode of the show there where Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton spent the day as substitute teachers and cafeteria monitors. The administration was surprised when they recieved some resistence to they idea by parents, and they have sinced cancelled the idea. What surprises me is that, out of 374 permission slips that were sent back, only 34 parents did not consent to have their children participate! That's a 10:1 ratio! Are parents today really THAT irresponsible that they would let their children be subjected to that kind of crap so easily? Sure, the show was going to donate $5000 to the school to do it, but that does not justify bringing the kind of values that they stand for into the public school system. Call me old fashioned, call me conservative, call me whatever, but I have a hard time following people's logic and reasoning sometimes.

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