My wife Becky is a CPA, has a masters in finance or something like that. She’s my business manager and a dang good one. But the home school co-op has her teaching chemistry. Something about us being new to the group or something, I don’t know exactly.
But today she gets to substitute for the economics teacher and I think what she’s teaching is brilliant: Hannah Montana.
Every kid in the class loves Hannah Montana – the girls want to be her, the boys just feel a weird tingling sensation they can’t explain when they see her. Becky will be Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. Every kid in the class will be a part of Hannah’s career: record company, a store, stylist, studio, radio station, etc. Twelve parts in all. And then they’ll actually trade money (pennies) to show how the cash flows in and around Hannah Montana’s career – who gets paid what and why.
“And at the end of class the record company will have all the pennies,” she laughed.
I didn’t.
Your wife is really creative… and obviously faces reality head-on.
Early Wednesday Morning (before God woke up)I was catching an AM station from Atlanta (I LIVE IN NEBRASKA) and the lead story on the news at 5:30 was the number of anxious parents who had purchased H/M tickets online and now found that they may have “fake tickets” for the show that night.
BUMMER – they had spent up to $2500 (!!!!) per ticket so that their kids could scream at someone “famous” (I guess)on a stage and now we should feel some deep sense of pity for their plight as victims….
I laughed.
Ha. Not so funny from your perspective, eh?
I love your wife’s sense of humour.
I asked Gabriella this afternoon what she learned in economics.
“I learned who makes money from Hannah Montana.”
“Who makes money?” I asked.
“The government,” she said.
Ok, that in and of itself is hilarious…but my latest argument with myself was whether or not (if we won them, not bought them) we would have allowed our 8 year old to attend the HM concert because of all the INSANE hype she had been given and the incredibly INSANE prices her tickets had started going for…then I thought, why would we go, we can sell her tickets on ebay and make our house payment for 2 months!!
ha!
True. But I personally like Miley. I don’t KNOW her but what I know OF her I like a lot. I’d go. If it was free. Or even cheaper.
I hear ya. I probably would have taken her as well…I wish I could wrap her in a bubble and not expose her to any of the outside world…but if I am going to expose her, I like the way the Cyrus’ do things. She has an allowance (hilarious but awesome). She has parents that are invested in her life. This says a lot for me. I just pray for her to be different than hollywood. It sure would be nice! Now, my oldests friend won a trip to CA to see Hannah Montana taped. She loved it!!!
I know that Karen Kingsbury is her favorite author.
Another reason to not have cable. I am blissful in my ignorance of this Ms. Hannah Montana.
Yeah, it’s good to do something different and related to what I believe everyone or 90% of the class finds popular.
yeah no other way to face the world but head on.
Its amazing how popular this girl is. Lots a people are making money off her.