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Scott D. Pierce: Get rid of 'Kid Nation'
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Coming from someone who knows, this will look fantastic on any college application.
If you want your kids to learn life lessons, send them to a real camp with trained councillors, not cameramen as babysitters. THAT will look much better on a college application.
These are Children, and as such it the responsibility as parents to ensure we are educated with regards to the ramifications of allowing our children to become involved in a program like this.
I see parents today afraid to let their children walk to school for fear of pedophiles, afraid to talk to their neighbours, but it's okay to leave 40 kids in the desert with a camera crew of strangers? Shame on all of you. Teach your children to become involved in the community, have them volunteer at a soup kitchen, send them to a real "camp" to learn real life lessons. Not some manipulated nonsense on a reality show, edited to show all of their flaws to the nation and schoolmates.
I know that a few people who are more interested in being entertained have chosen to overlook many of the facts you stated - and there are many more reasons this show - and certainly Kid Nation 2 - should not have happened the way it did.
How about if I start a FREE - "rebuild a city camp" - and teach 40 kids a good life lesson - but we leave the camera at home. No CBS, no gold star, just life lessons and physical challenges. A good documentarian can observe and impart the life lessons to society. No? Too boring? Not exploitive enough? Someone wouldn't get to see them cry or put together a puzzle? Yeah... thought so. Oh and my 'camp' will at least follow laws and regulations.
The real experiment here is CBS seeing how gullible and accepting our society is. I hope they see there are enough people who think this crosses the line in about a million ways to NEVER go there again.
Great comment btw.
Finally, I hate the caste system. It's nothing close to what it is in real life, and it only serves to demean those kids.
Anyone who thinks that watching kids cry & argue (or anything they've done) is entertainment - needs some serious mental help.
I'm betting the pedophiles have flocked to CBS on Wednesday night. It's a sad & sick world..
Do you wear clothes made in sweatshops? Do you approve of children being withdrawn from school for 40 days with no set teachers or tutors available?
Do you approve of a studio basically seducing young people and their parents into signing a 20+ page draconian contract because they don't know any better?
Did you know that legit programming uses child performers who are very well protected by child labour laws? Studios are required to have studio teachers available for any child missing school for more than 2 days. Summer camps are required to have licensed individuals running it and funcitioning bathrooms, appropriate sleeping quarters etc.
CBS played everyone on this. The kids, the parents and the government of New Mexico to pander a cheap production to a nation of fans who are just as ignorant as the families involved in the project.
CBS could have easily filmed the same concept without all of the controversy had they just followed standard practice in the industry instead of sidestepping the laws.
P.S. I'm not watching the program in principle. I watched the first one only to be educated as to how far CBS would go to make a dollar.
NationFan08
P.S. For a younger guy Greg is pretty hot :)But it is nice to watch him grow as a person.
This show is way over the top. all that they show are wat the veiwers want to see. (fair enough) but this makes it more of a script that was improvised
then a reality
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