How do you feel about high school and misc. step teams doing NPHC steps!

[aurorablue]

I'm really surprised I don't see any posts about this but then again I guess they can be in the archives. How do NPHC orgs feel about high school and misc. step teams doing their steps in stepshows? I'm a little old school (SGRho, Spr. 93) but I recently viewed some high school stepshows and the teams were doing things that mimic us EXACTLY, from the steps, to the showmanship, to the chants (although changing some words)....I mean everything!!! If I hear one more high school or misc. stepteam talk about "ICE COLD," I'm going to scream! What do these kids know about an "ICE ICE BABY...TOO COLD...TOO COLD"? Some of these teams (and clubs) even have 3 Greek letters for a name (and I'm not talking about the little sister clubs affiliated with our orgs., like the "Rhoer Club" for my organization). These kids are out of control but I know it's our members who are out there teaching them our steps or maybe they are studying our stepshow performances.

I don't mind if other people want to step and I'm all for getting kids off the streets and into something more positive, but they need their own steps. And I know it's not that hard to come up with new steps because I used to help create them for my undergrad chapter. Since when did drill teams become step teams anyway? My little cousin is in a "drill team" but the steps she showed me aren't like anything I remember drill teams doing when I was younger. She showed me actual steps, taken from our orgs. and before I educated her, she knew nothing about our orgs. or about the history behind our orgs. or the creation of stepping. Although I know it's not the children's fault, I think it's really disrespectful.

What do you all think?

Peace.
Aurorablue, SGRho, Spr. 93