[A_perfect_lady]

I'm more of a prude when it comes to this topic. I work at a middle school, and I do not like seeing little girls becoming overly sexualized by this society.

I work in a middle school too, and if you could see the stuff the drill team does, you'd shudder head to toe. It's hair-raising. And it's adults teaching them to do it!! That's what really blows me away.

[SoldierDad]

My sons played youth football, and were on their middle school and high school wrestling teams. That, with my 12 years of working in public education I've seen way too much of what adults are "teaching" our children with respect to your comments. I'm disgusted by what I see. My own daughters did not participate in such programs, and neither will my granddaughter. I don't have an answer for how to change this, as that would require a grassroots campaign against allowing this type of "teaching" to take place.

[af_vet_rr]

I work in a middle school too, and if you could see the stuff the drill team does, you'd shudder head to toe. It's hair-raising. And it's adults teaching them to do it!! That's what really blows me away.

What blows me away is that the parents don't care these days. Everybody bitches and moans about the schools, but does nothing about it. I saw some kind of dance team at a mall one time, of a similar age range to the OP, and if you had stuck a bunch of poles up and had people throwing money at them, it would not have seemed out of place.

The parents of these girls seemed proud of it.