6 Year Old Kicked Off Cheer Team After Parents Complaint
 

"Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties from left to right."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/15...est=latestnews

Is this a cheer a 6 year old should do or is this much ado about nothing?

There's a lot of information missing. Who wrote the cheer? How many times did they do it? What's the dynamic between the parents? Why are PARENTS voting on who is on or off the team, anyway?

Who cares?

THIS.

No. It isn't appropriate.

Her parents had the right to complain and I suppose the team had the right to remove her, but it sounds like they should find her a different team or activity anyway.

Maybe other parents, other cheer squads, football/basketball leagues, lawyers.

Why do their backs ache? They're 6! They barely even have backs.

Otherwise, it's a pretty funny cheer. But not for first-graders.

I'm sure that the cheer trickled down from college cheerleaders. I was a cheerleader in junior high, and HS girls taught our cheer camps. Who taught them? College cheerleaders. It sounds to me like this was one of those "silly" unofficial cheers that one of the girls learned from an older sister somewhere.

Does it make it right? No. The problem should have been nipped in the bud by the coach. All "cheers" should be approved at that level. The solution is for the coach to instruct the girls as to what is appropriate. They probably have no idea what "our backs ache" or "our skirts are too tight" might imply outside of the literal definitions. I saw the picture of the uniform - it's very floaty and long.

How many kids come out with trash that they heard elsewhere?

As I've said....why are 6 year olds cheerleaders at all??

Yes, I know cheerleading is a legitimate sport, but that isn't what these girls are doing. These girls (and their moms shoving them into it) are thinking of the "all cheerleaders are popular" concept. It's ridiculous to have that kind of thing so young, and with approval by the parents. $125 for a uniform??? Seriously??

Put your un-uniformed kids in a meadow and just let them play kickball, for crying out loud.

It's pretty much the same cheer that everyone in my high school knew in the 70s (except this current version messes up the meter):

My back is achin', my skirt's/shirt's too tight,
My bottom's/body's shakin' from the left to the right.

Meanwhile, co-sign 33-girl.

Wow, I've never heard that before.

Elementary-age cheerleading is just a way for the moms to live vicariously through their daughters, to make up for stuff they wanted to do and didn't get to do.

If I had been on a cheerleading squad at age 6, and I were doing that cheer, they wouldn't have had to vote me off the squad. My father would have pulled me off the squad himself. Probably by the hair.

This way, when mommy and daddy break the news to little Kennedy, they can blame all the other mommies and daddies for being mean.

Agreed.

I'd be curious to know what the choreography was. Were the little girls actually shaking their (nonexistent) booties from left to right?

would it be insensitive to say, "Well at least they aren't in front of the TV playing them bad video games and getting fat." ??

Yeah...

Find her something else to do.

"We're probably going to look to get her into gymnastics," Duane Tesch said.

meanwhile a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital was shot today and the suspect was killed.

More news coming later.

Oh come on, it's just like ballet or soccer or any other team sport/activity.

Word- I'm pretty sure my hockey equipment at that age was at least twice as much, and parents are paying upwards of $500 on eBay for the latest and greatest composite little league bat . . . any childhood activity will have costs and elements of living vicariously, but those don't define the activity (they define the parents).

Which leads me to agree with Kevin - who cares? Either you think "booty" is too risque or you don't, and past that there's nothing interesting at all about this.