High School Cheer Leading Squad Terrorists.

[carnation]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a...00010000000001

I'm just about this.

There was a Lifetime movie about the "boys will be boys" attitude of a school -- it starred Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Brian Austin Green.

Never thought I'd see "girls will be girls".

Newsweek article

Fab 5 Photos

At least we know now that none of them are no longer on the cheerleading squad. I hope Principal/Mom never works in school administration again. I know people will most likely disagree with this because the two are completely different, but if she can't even control her daughter...how can she run a school?

ETA: From this morning's Dallas Morning News -- the ex-cheerleaders and parents tell their side.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by OTW

I know people will most likely disagree with this because the two are completely different, but if she can't even control her daughter...how can she run a school?

I certainly wouldn't disagree.

The cheerleading program is part of the overall school program and she has responsibility for it.

Look in the dictionary under terribly misplaced priorities and you'll probably find pictures of this woman and "her" cheerleaders.

Wasn't there in incident in Texas a few years ago where a mother tried to take out a contract on someone else's daughter because hers didn't make the cheerleading squad?

Ugh!

[alum]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Wasn't there in incident in Texas a few years ago where a mother tried to take out a contract on someone else's daughter because hers didn't make the cheerleading squad?

Do you mean:

'In 1991, Wanda Holloway asked her brother-in-law to hire a hitman to kill the mother of a girl who was competing with her daughter for a spot on the same Texas cheerleading squad. Holloway wanted the mother killed because she determined the competing girl would be so upset by the murder of her mother that she would drop out of the competition. Both girls were thirteen at the time of the plot.
She is known as the "Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom."'

Holly Hunter starred in a movie based on this story.

Originally Posted by alum

Do you mean:

'In 1991, Wanda Holloway asked her brother-in-law to hire a hitman to kill the mother of a girl who was competing with her daughter for Da spot on the same Texas cheerleading squad. Holloway wanted the mother killed because she determined the competing girl would be so upset by the murder of her mother that she would drop out of the competition. Both girls were thirteen at the time of the plot.
She is known as the "Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom."'

Holly Hunter starred in a movie based on this story.

Also, don't forget Willing to Kill: the Texas Cheerleader Story! It's one of my favorite Lifetime Movie Network staples...they show it at least once a month!

Woooo...Channelview High!

i saw this movie a couple of weeks ago...

Originally Posted by OTW

Also, don't forget Willing to Kill: the Texas Cheerleader Story! It's one of my favorite Lifetime Movie Network staples...they show it at least once a month!

Woooo...Channelview High!

[UGAalum94]

Well, it seems like it would be hard to any of the five to get a hometown rec. anyway.

I think that the parents are to blame more than the school although the school didn't handle things well either.

You can turn out to be a decent person even if your high school administrators are idiots as long as your parents showed you right from wrong.

On the other hand, it's hard not to turn out to be a jerk if your parents reared you to believe that the only values are your individual rights and "success," which is another idea from the report.

It's a perfect storm of suburban affluenza, indifference, and irresponsibility.

Wikipedia has a Glenbrook North entry:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenbro...th_High_School.
At least in that case the suspensions stuck, it seems. (I can't decide which is sadder. The fact that an apparently decent high school will always be remembered for the hazing incident or the person who wrote up the debate section of the entry, not that three national championships in a single year isn't an accomplishment.)

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by OTW

There was a Lifetime movie about the "boys will be boys" attitude of a school -- it starred Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Brian Austin Green.

Never thought I'd see "girls will be girls".

Newsweek article

Fab 5 Photos

At least we know now that none of them are no longer on the cheerleading squad. I hope Principal/Mom never works in school administration again. I know people will most likely disagree with this because the two are completely different, but if she can't even control her daughter...how can she run a school?

Not that pretty. God, these are the types of girls that made me hate greek life at the beginning. Thank god I had that leveled out for me.
Reminds of me of 'The 10' in Pledged. Heh.

[UGAalum94]

A story like this making the national news is pretty rare, but I think the behavior of the kids and the parents is pretty common.

The article that gives the parents' side fails to note that one of the reasons that the situation got out of control was that the parents refused to accept the punishments that the school originally gave the girls for the various thing they did. The parents would appeal the decisions on behalf of the girls, and I think it taught the girls that they were running the show.

Had the parents backed the school in saying "no" early on, I wonder if any of the elements of the national news story would have happened?

[texas*princess]

Some more recent stories are telling the "fab 5's" side ... which I think is pretty interesting.

Of course they're going to play down the things they did.

"Oh I graduated early and now I don't get a senior year"

Boo freakin' hoo. That was your choice. You could have stuck it out with the rest of your posse, but instead you left.

I think it's interesting that they say it was never as bad as everyone is saying it is, but yet at the same time, this was their FOURTH coach in a year.

Yea, sometimes people leave because a better opportunity came up, or they were moving, or whatever, but FOUR? hmmmm....

[UGAalum94]

The same quote about the senior year jumped out at me too. I had the same reaction as Texas*Princess.
Who ruined your senior year? Oh, yeah, you did.

The four coaches in four years thing came up in the district's official report. The outside investigator mentioned that the other coaches weren't completely truthful about why they left their positions. (which makes sense to me because if you are still teaching in the district or want to, you aren't going to call out a lack of administrative support or the lack of parenting skills in the local community)

I have to say though, cheerleading is often a high turnover extra-curricular. Depending on where you are and how big competition is, it can run most of the school year, and yet, it doesn't usually command a big pay addition. Plus some of the parents tend to be really nuts.

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

The four coaches in four years thing came up in the district's official report.

It was stated in several articles that it was four coaches in just ONE year, which makes the situation even more disturbing.