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Half-Naked Boys, Coming Soon To A Public School Stage Near You

By Doug Wrenn

March 17, 2007

Old Man Winter has temporarily thrown a much-needed blanket over some half-naked boys in Seymour. According to the March 16th edition of the Waterbury Republican-American, "The Mr. Seymour" male beauty pageant, originally scheduled for March 16th, and featuring high school boys in three events, talent, formalwear and swimwear will be postponed until March 20th, thanks to the severity of "Winter Storm Brendan." Meanwhile, stay warm, lads, and try putting something else on.

The Mr. Seymour event, featuring half-naked male adolescents, is being organized by Karen Stanek, a Seymour High School Social Studies teacher, and Student Council Advisor, as per the Seymour Schools web site: (www.seymourschools.org), and according to on-line bulletins of the Valley United Way, which lists Miss Stanek as a Seymour High School teacher and as being affiliated with VUW. The show takes place at the Seymour Middle School and the proceeds are to benefit the family of a local man killed in a car crash on the Merritt Parkway in February. The top three semi-pubescent hunks of female eye-candy are supposed to then go on to the "Mr. Valley" pageant, hosted by VUW, and taking place on March 23rd, and also at the Seymour Middle School. The "Mr. Valley" event entices even more male high school students from the neighboring towns of Shelton, Derby, Ansonia and Oxford into this sordid extravaganza as well. I guess the old saying is true. "You know what" rolls down hill. Apparently, it all lands in "the valley."

A source told me that allegedly, the original idea was to display the under-aged male bimbi in boxer shorts instead of swimwear. Somehow since that first brainstorm, some modicum of common sense and decency must have prevailed after sneaking in from under the same door that also allowed the sludge in.

In anticipation of the obvious argument from possible dissenters, yes I know, if the boys were to be so dressed at any public beach, that fashion would be acceptable. True enough, but the beach is not a school stage, and the primary purpose of a beach is for swimming and sunbathing, and ideally not for ogling, drooling and fantasizing. Where does this end? Are these young, aspiring Chip & Dales in training to be oiled up and encouraged to erotically pose and dance to strip-tease music as well, or do we save that grand finale act for the prom? Maybe I'm getting a little long in the tooth here, but when I was studying Biology in high school, our lab curriculum was restricted to dissecting little dead, pickled animals. Worse yet, this meat market of an event is held on a public school stage. Do you remember when public school staff used to set an example, and school events (or events at school) had some semblance of decorum? For that matter, do you remember when parents used to set an example? Given my druthers, Karen Stanek, her Principal and the Superintendent of Schools in Seymour, as well as their collaborators from public schools in the other participating towns would all be suspended, if not terminated for this highly questionable, if not unethical behavior, and the parents of these boys would be referred to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) for investigation and monitoring. I would also call for the respective First Selectmen and Mayors in Seymour and the other towns participating in this tasteless, inappropriate venue of poorly veiled debauchery to stop it from taking place on any tax-funded public property. If VUW wants to throw a skin-fest, then let it occur on private property and only with consenting adults of age 18 or older. As a matter of fact, I demand that all such measures be taken now!

If a male teacher proposed exhibiting teen-age girls on stage in bikinis or lingerie, the outcry from the politically correct public would be so loud that his head would burst before it could be rightfully put on a platter. And in consideration of the several recent nationally reported incidents of female teachers having sexual relations with their under-aged students, a valid question should be asked as to why Miss Stanek is so specifically zealous about seeing her young, male students sauntering back and forth, half-naked on a stage. A female high school teacher in Norwich is facing termination and criminal charges right now simply because her students somehow accessed pornography on the computers in her classroom. There are several viable possibilities as to how those sites were accessed on the computers, but this soft "kiddy" porn is live, in your face and quite intentional, and I couldn't care less if this event is for charity. What ever happened to ziti dinners, car washes and marathons? Bearing that all in mind, and since no one else apparently has the guts, decency or concern to ask it, I'll ask the question: Why half-naked boys, Miss Stanek? And why stop at boxer shorts? How about Speedos, or even…. "in the buff"? I don't even care if your intentions were innocent (or naive). You are a public school teacher. The example you set, as viewed via public perception, be it true or false, is every bit as significant as the reality. Where did you obtain your teacher's certificate…from a President's Day Sale at Sears? And you are an "Advisor" to Seymour High School students? Who is advising you? I am not ruling out that this incident is conceivably nothing more than poor judgment on the part of Karen Stanek, but what further sickens me is that so many other people, including her superiors are presumably privy to this public event and yet it is still continuing. This poor judgment, for lack of another excuse, is apparently widespread and reaches higher rungs on the school system's ladder of rank. If Miss Stanek's bosses are condoning this event, they are also wrong, and if, per chance, it is going on without their knowledge, they are still wrong.

In this secular, amoral, liberal bastion, I seriously wonder if DCF would even pursue this issue. I have had friends and clients who have been DCF employees. I asked one once how the state legally draws the line between sanctioned corporal punishment from parents to kids vs. the definition of child abuse. The reply was that once a visible "red mark" is made (like from a smack on the tush), that is considered child abuse. OK. I think I got it now. A spank for an errant child, no good. Half-naked young boys, flexing their still developing muscles, while possibly encouraging and receiving cat whistles from female students (and maybe some female teachers) in the audience, and strutting around on a stage like aroused peacocks sprouting their plumage (GASP!) when in season… "priceless!" Apparently, anything goes now in public (or perhaps more appropriately, "pubic") schools. No one seems to even give this farce of a wholesome, charitable event a second thought. Yet had this shindig been run in a Catholic school, the priest in charge would be crucified, CNN would be rolling the film 24/7, (and "360") and the late-night Johnny Carson-wannabes would have enough pedophile-priest ammunition for their nightly inane banter to last from now until April Fool's Day.

For those of you who have read at least three or more of my columns, you well know by now that I am far from bashful. I don't "hate" to say, "I told you so," I revel in it! So…I told you so! In my February 28th column, "What's In a Word? It Depends Who Is Reading It," I cited the increasing sexualization of our children in today's society. This depravity is further proof of it. For you folks in Seymour, and particularly, you clueless ostriches who claim to be the "parents," (for lack of a better term), or the supporters of these exploited young boys being prematurely sexualized via their (and your vicarious) narcissism, if your kid is involved with promiscuity, an unwanted pregnancy, date-rape, infection from an STD or an abortion (assuming you even find out about it), just remember, your tax dollars supported it! And to elaborate on that previous column, now you know why certain authors go out of their way to gratuitously, and with impunity, mention graphic terms of genitalia in books for very young children, and why some closet deviants in our nation's public schools are tripping over each other to be the first in line to stock their libraries and permeate young, developing, innocent minds with such superfluous filth, courtesy of the public dime. To Karen Stanek, the Seymour edu-crats, and the Valley United Way, on a personal note, you people make me wretch. If you are so concerned about the almighty and now trendy "self esteem" of your students, then start by demonstrating and teaching a little decency, modesty and humility. Real self-esteem will naturally follow once kids learn that they are dignified human beings worthy of respect and not inanimate sex toys to satisfy their recently awakened and already raging hormones, further fueled by your half-baked, harebrained fundraising schemes.

My indigestion is further agitated by recalling that our equally clueless, equally amoral, and equally double-talking Pollyanna-Princess of a Governor, Jodi Rell, is robbing us of another $3.4 billion from the sweat of our already overtaxed, overworked and underpaid brows to further fund this incessant shell-game of wasteful, knee-jerk, fluffy, useless bilge that you some of you vile, inept leeches of the public dole actually have the audacity to call "education."

And yet you loony, lofty, education elitists are aghast as to why more parents are increasingly and vehemently calling for school vouchers, and are choosing to educate their kids in private schools, or for that matter, at home, and with marked success, much to your well-earned chagrin. Well, now your question is answered, so wipe that mesmerized look off your blank mugs, blink your eyes, take a breath, wipe the drool off your chins and close your mouths before the flies get in.

And tell those kids to put some more clothes on! The beaches are still closed and summer is still at least three months away. Meanwhile, some of you female teachers may have to wait just a bit longer yet to get your jollies, at least…. in public perception.

Doug Wrenn

(Post Script- If you liked what you just read regarding the "Mr. Seymour" (adolescent) male beauty pageant, email me at Wrtwng@AOL.com. If you did not like what you read, then contact Valley United Way in Shelton at: www.valleyunitedway.org, or Karen Stanek at Seymour High School at: Kstanek@seymourschools.org. Class dismissed. )

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