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So.. Why is no one mad that schools are dressing up your daughters in ‘uniforms’ designed to show off their bodies to large crowds? The fact that this student was able to get panty-shots of these girls means that anyone else at these events was able to do the same.

High school yearbooks have nothing to do with “journalism”, and this issue really isn’t about the cheerleaders or their uniforms. Its about whether or not its appropriate to publish a rant intended to humiliate a group or person in what is supposed to be a keepsake. A newscaster in Sacramento said it best, “You shouldn’t have to open your yearbook and feel embarrassed or hurt.”

“It sounds to me like the problem is that there was not a solid faculty adviser in place who would have prevented the article from being published in the first place. The article’s author, or the yearbook’s editor, clearly didn’t have the maturity to know that it was an inappropriate article to print. I feel bad for the cheerleaders and think they have every right to be upset.”

The author of this article must have someone on the cheerleading squad. Because it appears that the school is holding double standards. They say skirts and shorts have to be a certain length in order to wear them to school or school events; which includes football, soccer, and basketball games. Reasoning they say is that it is inappropriate and misrepresents the school. So the child is ask to leave the school or the school event and come back wearing something more acceptable. However, these cheerleaders can wear short skirts in front of the whole school body and community clearly breaking school rules and receive no punishment. How is that not inappropriate and misrepresents the school. Or maybe it perfectly represents the school, that looks are more important than education.

To the girls, first if you did no wrong, who cares what anyone else says. Grow some thick skin quit crying, and running to mommy because the world is much harsher outside of High School. Also if you don’t want the world to think your trash then don’t dress like it. (The skirts are to short, I am sure the boys and the men are not watching your routine) To me people who wear clothing like that are only making up for areas that lack in, maybe they are lacking in actual cheerleading skills therefore making it up by showing old men their skin. And last if you break the rule expect to be called out on it. Yeah the yearbook might have been a harsh way to go but I bet next time the leader of your group is picking out your uniforms they will not forget this. To try to be the solution and not the problem. I give the student who made this page credit. It takes courage to say and do what he/she did.

So what’s the problem people like the leaders at the school and writer of this article who promote breaking the rules and getting away with it. You are the cancer of our society.

While I don’t think the criticism of cheerleading was appropriate for a year book, as opposed to a school newspaper, I do share concerns for the obsession with sports in school. Scantily clad girls gyrating and preening to the preformance of male acts of violence seems a lot like the rectal display of female mountain goats for the males bashing their big-horned heads together. Pagentized rectal display, but pretty much the same thing nonetheless. If women really want to stop violence in men & boys, maybe they should turn around and take a look at what they’re shaking their butts at. And what does any of it have to do with learning? Or better yet, we need to reconsider what our educational priorities are.

Whether or not the uniforms are too short or violate the school’s dress code is not the issue. Is a yearbook really the place to write a mean-spirited article about anyone in the school? Clearly the answer is no since the person who wrote the article issued an apology and the yearbook editor reprinted the article to something less offensive.

I have to chime in here. I agree that cheerleaders have been given a status that should never exist in a school. No student should be above the rules. However, the school should be responsible for one) ordering more modest uniforms; and two) setting up standards for when the uniforms may be worn. They are uniforms. The band probably doesn’t wear their uniforms to class, so why can cheerleaders, especially if the uniform violates the school’s dress code?
As far as the editor making an apology…Well let’s be honest. It is very likely that if he/she was basically forced to do so. I’d be willing to bet that they were told that if they didn’t apologize, they would not only be removed from the editor’s position, but the paper entirely. It’s also possible that they were threatened with suspension or expulsion. If they had the courage to write it in the first place, I highly doubt they would have apologized without extreme pressure to do so.

The issue here is whether or not is appropriate for someone to ridicule a group of people in a yearbook. However, the conversation seems to have taken a turn. Many people here seem to think that the cheerleaders deserve it because they wear something inappropriate. However how about the volleyball, wrestling or swimming uniforms for that matter. These are all WAY more skimpy and revealing. Cheerleading is a sport and the uniform is designed to allow for tumbling and stunting.

I honestly don’t know why schools allow such skimpy uniforms in the first place. They are completely inappropriate. Boys on cheerleading squads aren’t forced to dress like streetwalkers, so why are the girls?

“The cheerleaders are upset and angry at their depiction, particularly since they say they didn’t even choose the uniforms they’re ridiculed for wearing.”

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Oookay…
So they were forced to join the squad. Then they were forced to wear the uniforms. Aaand they cannot think for themselves, otherwise they would have been capable of petitioning for more modest outfits or hmm… maybe just not join the team and wear the uniform because of lack of morals and immodesty.

Also seen/heard this with girls playing tennis and volleyball.