Posted on 11/16/2007 2:30:11 PM PST by Sopater
Six of eight Ripon High School cheerleaders were suspended from school for two days over a cheer performed at a football game. The girls danced to a Britney Spears song and lifted their skirts at the end to spell out the school's nickname, Indians. Superintendent Leo Zuber said he couldn't discuss the issue because of confidentiality requirements on disciplinary matters. Parents can appeal suspensions, and Zuber acknowledged he has received one. He said he will investigate whether proper procedures were followed and whether suspensions were warranted. Bee staff writer Inga Miller contributed to this report.
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Ree! Ree! Ree! Kick em in the knee!
Ree! Ree! Ras! Gooooo.... Indas!
If you can, like, watch the whole, you know, six-minute interview-w-w-w, then you would find out, you know, that they were actually asked to leave, you know, several times, but then they stayed and kept, like, cheering. I mean, they tried to pretend, umm, that they didn’t know they had to, you know, leave.
I mean, the cheerleaders that were interviewed, I mean, they seemed kind of bratty, but cheerleading is, like, their lives.
And one cheerleader, she’s taking like two AP classes and is already getting, you know, bad grades, but the two-day suspension will make her grades, you know, go even lower.
It’s not a matter of whether or not it’s objectionable. The time to argue that point was before the game.
Sounds like they didn’t get the two days for the cheer routine, as much as they did for back-talking their coach and the vice-principal when they told them to leave (multiple times). I wouldn’t have suspended them for the routine, but for what they did to the VP, I don’t think it’s out of line.
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yep.. they’re seniors. I’d make them finish in the summer.
If you’re going to pull the cheerleading squad off the field, you should at least have an adult reason to do so.
What these girls did was a harmless prank. It wasn’t offensive in the slightest, and it would take a pinhead to make a mountain out of this molehill.
If the school officials had a problem with it, they would have far ahead of the game to give the girls a few hours of detention the following week, and not make a fool of themselves at a public event.
The girls objected to being kicked out of the game. And if you were being kicked out of a game unfairly, I think you might have objected as well.
“Girls, your suspended for two days for that! Don’t forget to pick up your NEA approved condoms on the way out.”
It might be objectional to the very delicate wanting to be offended but otherwise it’s nothing.
I’m amazed that there still is a high school with a mascot of “Indians”.
The comments below the video are pretty interesting. One person says she was in the crowd that night and “Not only that, but many of us witnessed their complete disrespect for their authorities including cussing and inappropriate sign language.” Evidently they got suspended more for their behavor after the cheer than the cheer itself. And if they swore at the administrators and flipped them off, then I tend to side with the school.
No no no. The problem was the politically incorrect “indians” term used. The school could care less even if they were actually stripping.
If it wasn’t objectionable then the matter should have been a non issue. I do see this as a control issue.
Look, I don’t approve of a lot of things kids do today. That doesn’t mean that it’s open season when they do something that wasn’t on the script.
Some teacher was worried someone was going to think they approved of this, and they melted down over it. Too bad they didn’t notice the people in the stands thought it was a hoot.
Read the comments section, from people who were there. Not everyone in the crowd liked it.
Actually, a threat of two hours' worth of detention accompanied the first request for the cheerleaders to leave.
The punishment escalated because the cheerleaders kept ignoring further requests. I can well imagine the teenagers' we'll-show-them attitudes.
They should all just bury the hatchet.
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