SURVIVOR fans! The game is on! What do you think?(Remember our west coast friends)

[MaryAnnDVC]

She started teaching there in August, and took a leave in November??

I'm not so sure Heidi cares if she loses her job. I'm sure she's got visions of stardom dancing in her head.

 

[travelbug24]

Oooh Becka, you are an asset to our little group. Keep us informed on the poop.

 

[suzannen]

Becka,
Too, too funny - please do keep us updated on this "cute, smart, modest" young woman setting such a fine example on national TV.

 

[Rajah]

Originally posted by becka
It appears that her Survivor appearance may be causing her some trouble with her teaching job.

Good. She has no business teaching kids.

 

[smileybrat]

Survivor tribe standings (this week / last week):

1/1. Disney 5 - 5667
2/2. Dis Tribe - 5169
3/4. Disney 3 - 4977
4/3. The-Dis-Tribe - 4807
?/5. WDWWDS - ?

These standings will be updated on Monday if I hear from the other tribe.

 

[smileybrat]

i can believe they would let heidi keep teaching after her actions on the show: cute girls better than fat ones, getting naked for peanut butter, etc.: especially to ones so emotionally vulnerable.

 

[korzmom]

I guess if shes back at her school and fighting to keep her job, she didnt win the million bucks!

 

[gometros]

Would she know? Isn't the final show live? Even if it isn't, they may be contractually obligated no to make any sudden changes in lifestyle to draw attention.

 

[gometros]

For a lark, I went to google.com come and searched on 'Survivor' and 'heidi". I found this link:

http://www.sirlinksalot.net/heidistrobel.html

Following one of the links on this page led me to this link:

http://survivorfoxes.com/HeidiStrobel/

If you poke around, you can find similar pages about each survivor. Talk about obsessions!

 

[chell]

She called into a Columbia radio station this morning to defend her actions as just being "entertainment" and she does not feel that this should affect her job.

I wonder if her Survivor contract allows her to do that? I didn't think they could make contact with the media until after the show had aired with them being voted off.

 

[Jeafl]

I was wondering if she has a morality clause in her contract. I know of a lot of companies that have them, so maybe her school district has one as well. Actually, I think school districts would be the ones that need them the most.

 

[Jeafl]

I was wondering if she has a morality clause in her contract. I know of a lot of companies that have them, so maybe her school district has one as well. Actually, I think school districts would be the ones that need them the most.

 

[Tulirose]

From the articles linked, it seems the school and parents are only talking about the stripping scene. They don't seem to understand the impact Heidi's WORDS can have on the children.

Tulirose shaking head in sad perplexion.

 

[Tulirose]

Originally posted by Tulirose
706 - Eating Bugs (aka ChrisC) of Disney5 and DisTribe
713 - Chess of The-DIS-Tribe and Disney 3 and Disney5
761 - SurvivorNutz (aka BethC) of Disney 5 and DisTribe
774 - Nathans Mom (aka Becka) of Disney 3
AND TOP SCORER FOR THE WEEK…
Wdwoldtimer of WDWWDS Tribe with a score of 840!!!!

While beginning to figure out the scores for Episode 7, I realize I may have made a big mistake here for Episode 6. I think I messed up Londoner's score somehow and cheated her out of her rightful place somewhere in the top 5. But, I am uncertain. For Episode 5 Londoner had a score of 715 and my paperwork shows I have her down for a score of 683 with Episode 6. While it is possible to have a tribe that causes one to get minus points, I think the difference of 32 points is too odd a number. I don't think that is possible.

So, my apologies to Londoner if I screwed this up. I wasn't quite with it the night I was figuring it all out. Sorry.

Will try to be more accurate this week but still need scores from DisTribe and WDWWDS Tribe.

 

[Grog]

I think the difference of 32 points is too odd a number

Could be possible. -20 for a tribe member being voted out, -12 for sitting out a challenge, = 32 Points lost (if the above scenario took place of that episode)

 

[gometros]

I don't want to toot my own horn (but I will), but I've got 871 points. Am I missing something? SurvivorNutz is ahead of me with 891 points, but you have him with 861.

 

[smileybrat]

Survivor tribe standings (this week / last week):

1/1. Disney 5 - 5667
2/2. Dis Tribe - 5169
3/4. Disney 3 - 4977
4/3. The-Dis-Tribe - 4807
?/5. WDWWDS - ?

I'm still looking for WDWWDS total points. Some help please Tulirose needs the individual scores too(for WDWWDS and Dis Tribe).

 

[gometros]

Here are the DIS Trivbe scores this week:

SurvivorNutz 891
Heidi and the Jets 871
Eatin Bugs 796
Tiki TooKoo 642
SGTDISNEY 579
5150 487
badshoe 456
RMD 447

 

[becka]

Here are two new articles that were in the Jeff City paper over the last few days regarding Heidi in case any one is interested.

Heidi's future blurred at Eldon school after bare-all performance

By KRIS HILGEDICK
News Tribune

Jefferson City resident Heidi Strobel may be faring well on the CBS hit show "Survivor," but some tribal elders in the Mid-Missouri community are discussing her place in the Eldon School District.

Strobel disrobed on national television Wed-nesday night, to the dismay of some supporters in the Eldon community. Strobel, 24, teaches physical education at Eldon Middle School.

Wednesday night's incident, promoted the week prior to the show, didn't take the community completely by surprise.

But its brazen quality did raise the eyebrows of many in the small town -- including School Superintendent Rodney Haley.

"For myself, I'm disappointed in the choices that were made," he said Thursday morning.

Haley declined to say if the situation had already been discussed in a closed school board session Monday, but said he expected it could be discussed by board members in the weeks to come. The board has meetings scheduled for April 9, 14 and 22.

Haley -- who doesn't watch the show -- added it is the board's decision to retain or dismiss personnel.

One member of the school board, John Caine, said he hadn't yet been contacted by the board's president regarding the situation; another declined to discuss the issue, on grounds it is a personnel matter.

Some members of the community reacted to the show with equanimity. One woman whose child attends the school didn't approve, but said little was revealed in the few moments the cameras were focused on Strobel. She didn't believe the event influenced her daughter. "This is the way today's world is," she said.

An attempt to contact Strobel was unsuccessful.

The incident occurred during one of the show's immunity challenges. The willpower of Strobel, and other JacarŽ tribal members, was tested when they were asked to stand on a precarious four-inch by 12-inch perch.

As they fell or jumped off, contestants were counted out of the game. During their wait, steaming plates of food were offered as temptations to draw them from their perches.

Strobel, along with Jenna Morasca, another contestant, gave in first. The two women made an offer: they would strip in exchange for peanut butter and chocolate.

In an earlier February interview by The Associated Press, her father said he has learned to expect the unexpected from his oldest daughter.

"If there was something she wanted to do, she did it," John Strobel said. "You just have to know the girls. Whatever they do is not a surprise."

This is Strobel's first year teaching at Eldon Middle School. She began teaching in August, before heading to the Amazon in November to tape the show.

She returned to the job in mid-December, but it wasn't until Jan. 14 that CBS revealed the contestants in "Survivor: The Amazon."

A biography on CBS's Web site reveals that Strobel has worked as a sales representative for a lingerie company, as a secretary in a doctor's office, and as a manager of a fireworks company.

Strobel, whose hometown is Buffalo, Missouri, graduated from Drury University in 2002 with degrees in exercise physiology and physical education.



Was reality overexposed?

By NANCY VESSELL
For the News Tribune

Some jobs in life are just not compatible when intertwined. For example, it would raise serious questions for a pest control technician by day to be an ant farmer by night. Likewise, you wouldn't expect a roofing contractor to sell tee-pees, or a beef farmer to peddle vegetarian cookbooks, or a lawn care business to push asphalt.

I don't know what's going through the minds of Eldon school officials right now, but after one of their teachers stripped naked on national, prime-time television to win a reward on a game show last week, they might be thinking that perhaps teaching and reality TV are just not a good mix, professionally speaking.

There may be such a thing as too much reality.

In February I wrote a column about Mid-Missouri's own "Survivor" contestant, Heidi Strobel, a 24-year-old physical education teacher at the Eldon Middle School. The teachers and students at the school, indeed the entire community, were excited about this brush with celebrity and her chance to win the $1 million prize. It was an opportunity, the teachers said, for students to learn the rewards of tenacity.

The headline on that column was, "School gets reality education." That means a whole lot more now than it did at the time it was written, a time when Heidi was still keeping her bikini on for the camera. During Wednesday night's episode, Heidi and another young female contestant on the show stripped naked (with strategic blurring of the tape for the audience at home) to win a reward of peanut butter and chocolate.

Now, to be fair, they had been deep in the Amazon jungle for three weeks, surviving on meals of fish, nuts and moldy flour. They were hungry. The chocolate and peanut butter unquestionably looked good to them. Off came the clothes.

That was then, and this is now. But the distance between then and now might prove to be too little. Some folks are upset. Several e-mails I received, some from as far away as Ontario, Canada, questioned Heidi's judgment as a teacher. Another questioned my judgment in writing about her: "Is your community so hungry for recognition that this woman is presented as a role model?"

It's also been the topic of local talk radio shows, with Heidi getting critics as well as supporters. She called in to one show and explained that "Survivor" is strictly entertainment and that she adores her students.

But, the Eldon schools superintendent said the day after the show aired that he was "disappointed" in Heidi's actions and that the School Board would likely be discussing the matter.

If Heidi's boss were, say, a restaurant manager, there probably would be no such discussion. It gets back to compatibility. No matter how unfair it might seem, it's often impossible to disengage our personal lives from our professional lives. Separating our activities into distinct compartments, expecting them never to reflect on each other is, well, not reality.

The lesson in this might be you can either choose to teach children or you can choose to bare it all in the name of entertainment, but simultaneously going down both paths is likely to prove tough.

As for the impact on her seventh- and eighth-grade students, perhaps two words apply: "teachable moment." That's a time, the child development experts say, to turn an occasion into an opportunity for a lesson. For example, when your loud Uncle Leroy announces at a family dinner that lettuce is a conspiracy by vegetarians to control the minds of Americans, you use that opportunity to teach your children about the dangers of mixing prescription medicines.

This could be a teachable moment for middle school students. They could discuss and develop essays, choosing one of the following themes: "Which reality is really real?" "The mysterious symptoms of Jungle Fever." "How to build an effective resume." "What I wouldn't do for a million dollars." "My strange Uncle Leroy, the ant-farming, pest-killing guy."

 

[Liz]

Thanks Becka! Those are interesting! But I'm with Tulirose, totally confused at why no one is focusing on how harmful her comments about looks are. To me that is equally as harmful, if not more so, to her students.