Posted on 05/08/2018 8:37:06 AM PDT by EinNYC
A New Jersey mom went to her daughter’s school and complained about her not making the cheerleading squad — so now everyone gets to make the team.
“All my hard work has been thrown out the window,” seethed cheerleader Stephanie Krueger about the ruling during a Board of Education meeting last week in East Hanover.
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IIRC, a few years back, there was a HS out west somewhere where EVERYONE made the football team, AND cheer-leading team, regardless of talent..................don’t know whatever happened to them...................
Same for everyone who wants to officiate. Wouldn't you just love to see a dozen parents share the umpire's spot behind the catcher?
And of course anyone who shows up at a school board meeting should have an equal right to chair the meeting.
Sounds like AYSO soccer......every kid is supposed to get the same amount of playing time.......no matter what.
I have a .002 batting average. I can be on the baseball team! With equal playing time!
I retired after 30 years of teaching in a public high school. This is more about gutless administrators not wanting to deal with a nutty mom than any sort of conspiracy to destroy traditional American individualism and meritocracy.
What the “simple solution now” administrators don't care about is that destroying those values is what they are doing.
If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball.
I wrote cheers, but the other cheerleaders were so jealous they would not use one of my cheers. I wrote "Die you gravy sucking pigs" and "Try and make a touchdown you scumbags"
-Steve Martin
Make the bottom teir the cheerleaders for girls basketball, then no one would see them.
That looks like a young Trigglypuff before she went to college.
Geeze. I DID make tge cheer squad. It only starts there. Now working on long island whenever i have to deal with a gorgeous gum chewing gossipy slanderous bitch with attitude i know how to deal. Learned it on the field at
St Commacks.
Good point; and it could get to the point where exceptional athletes would only play for elite “amateur” clubs or private schools; much of which is already going on and becoming more widespread every year.
having been involved in the sport, this is not safe......
I feel that way every April 15
So the snobby kids are upset. Too bad. In my opinion, if I had a daughter, they would be doing sports, not cheerleading in skimpy clothes. Never.
yes, I see this in my kid's public school. The Principal and admin people are above all, bureaucrats. Even our school board, who supposedly runs the district, doesn't have control over 75% of the budget due to State mandates. Nor do they have control over teachers, who are protected by the union.
How about everyone gets a 4.0 gpa? Naw, give everyone a 0.5 gpa and watch the whining then.
The left wants equal outcome in spite of unequal abilities.
I remember when I tried out for my high school cheer squad back in my Sophomore year in 1963. New members to the squad were picked by the girls who were already on the squad. I practiced very hard, and hoped to make the J.V. squad (no, not ISIS), and was shocked to find that I had actually made the Varsity squad. I was told no Sophomore had ever done that before. Quite an honor. Squad Captains were chosen in a school election when the current Captain/Co-Captain were graduating. I ran at the end of the school year in 1964, and lost to a black female whose twin was on the JV squad. It was an honor to have been chosen to run, and although I was disappointed in losing the election, and ending up as Co-Captain, I lived with it, and we had a great time cheering our football team (City Champs - Rochester, NY), and basketball team to their victories.
Gutless Texas UIL, too. They’ve allowed a XX girl who’s taking hormones to transition into a male with big muscles and facial hair wrestle as a girl. Of course, it has won state two years in a row. Talk about the other girls who aren’t on steroid drugs throwing all their work out the window. The UIL is of the opinion steroids for “transitioning” is ok but steroids for buffing up isn’t. Might as well do away with all male/female sports and cheer teams.
“This decision was made in the best interest of all students...”
With “best interest” defined by the school board.
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