oklaclarinet
10/22/2010, 09:06 AM
I hadn't seen this here yet and I was wondering what the good citizens of the South Oval thought. Two recent cases of young girls being kicked off cheerleading squads for not wanting to do a cheer involving "shaking the booty." One girl is 6, the other is 11.
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/11-year-old-Nebraska-cheerleader-kicked-off-squad-for-not-shaking-booty-102010
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/year-kicked-off-cheerleading-squad-mom-questions-suggestive/story?id=11662300
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/39785856/ns/sports-other_sports/
In the case of the 6-year old, the mother was uncomfortable with the cheer and asked if the cheer could be changed. The other parents then voted to kick her daughter off the squad. With the 11-year old, the girl herself was uncomfortable with the cheer. She has been quoted as saying she didn't like the idea of people staring at her butt. When she refused to do the cheer, the coach kicked her off.
In the case of the 11-year old, I can definitely see where a girl that age would start to understand the cheer differently than the younger girls on her squad, and thus be uncomfortable with the cheer. With the younger girl, the girl is most likely just being punished because the parents complained.
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/11-year-old-Nebraska-cheerleader-kicked-off-squad-for-not-shaking-booty-102010
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/year-kicked-off-cheerleading-squad-mom-questions-suggestive/story?id=11662300
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/39785856/ns/sports-other_sports/
In the case of the 6-year old, the mother was uncomfortable with the cheer and asked if the cheer could be changed. The other parents then voted to kick her daughter off the squad. With the 11-year old, the girl herself was uncomfortable with the cheer. She has been quoted as saying she didn't like the idea of people staring at her butt. When she refused to do the cheer, the coach kicked her off.
In the case of the 11-year old, I can definitely see where a girl that age would start to understand the cheer differently than the younger girls on her squad, and thus be uncomfortable with the cheer. With the younger girl, the girl is most likely just being punished because the parents complained.