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Pay 15k. To whom? For what?

The great cheerleader conspiracy. Holy $%^&. Are they kidding? Hey, how bout this Mr. Walker. Your kid didn't make cheerleader. Maybe she isn't good enough. Nah, couldn't be that could it. Get over it!

How the hell can a school operate, any school, with parents interfering in every little thing to make sure their little angels get everything they ever wanted. Makes me nuts when i read that kind of stuff. Nuts I tell you.

How 'bout we get rid of cheerleaders?
I can't imagine why a parent would want their teen daughter shaking her stuff in front of folks.
Seriously.
The feminist in me just cringes.....

The other day my son's friend who plays on our local football team was telling us about the "sports" banquet they had before Christmas where the cheerleaders had to "serve" the football players.
Really?
In 2008?
Yes he said they got to boss them around and everything.
Dude I said, you have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME...that parent, mothers, did not think this was a crappy idea.
No wonder jocks think they are so special in these small towns.
I promise you if my daughter was a cheerleader I would have been an interfering parent and she would NOT have been serving the football players.

Sorry, I'm still worked up about it.

Thank Goodness the cable news is back to sports miscreants, car chases, missing white girls, campaign faux pas, celebrity foofaw and such...!

John Walker. Does extortion come to mind.

Exactly on the cheerleader. What an anachronism. I have a young daughter and while i don't dare tell her she can't be one directly, there is no way that she will want to be a cheerleader because of the "surrounding" discussions we have in our household about the role of women, girls roles, etc.

We give her plenty of encouragement in other "competing" areas and i think it is working fine though many of her friends will wind up cheerleaders, largely because their brain-deadish parents get off on it.

Go to any college in the Northeast and say out loud that you were a cheerleader in high school and they will roll their eyes at you. Here they applaud it. Just noting the cultural difference.

We live in world of entitlement......." I want it and I want it now..and guess what I don't have to work for it either!"
Like is not fair, everyone can't do everything thet feel they are "entitled to"...there are rules, there is skill.
You would think a parent would try to turn this into a "learning experience" but no....we continue to enable bad behavior!
I agree with IABL

Cheerleaders. Thanks goodness my daughter, pretty and popular as she was at LRCHS and in college, never aspired to be a cheerleader. She thought it was silly, as did (does) her old man. Even now when I attend an athletic event, most recently the Arkansas-Alabama basketball game, I study the cheerleaders and wonder why in the world they'd want to be out there going through the same juvenile motions game after game.

And the male cheerleaders. Jesus! Soon enough those poor boys are gonna be suffering the agonies of misaligned spines and bulging hernias from all that unnecessary (and dangerous) lifting, shouldering, and catching of the Barbie dolls.

But I digress: If the LRSD board is so disrespectful of scarce dollars that it agrees to a $15,000 settlement with the Walkers on the cheerleading nonsense, THAT will do it for me, once and for all. This situation has long since passed the point of being ridiculous.

crap are you kidding me? as someone who cheered, rodeo'ed, danced and played sprots-let me say cheerleading was a great experience! ther are scholarships available through cheerleading among other higher ed opportunities... unfortunately there are parents who may not at all be involved with their kids but as soon as they don't make some team suddenly they are involved. it tends to happen more with the young ladies, for some reason parents tend to understand that whining to a football coach probably isn't going to cut it. the simple fact that little problems such as these are being paid any amount of time is ridiculous. i am sure some where the standard has been set that this type of behaviour is accpeptable-shame on the instigators of this madness, as if our school board has nothing better to waste their time on.

crap are you kidding me? as someone who cheered, rodeo'ed, danced and played sprots-let me say cheerleading was a great experience! ther are scholarships available through cheerleading among other higher ed opportunities... unfortunately there are parents who may not at all be involved with their kids but as soon as they don't make some team suddenly they are involved. it tends to happen more with the young ladies, for some reason parents tend to understand that whining to a football coach probably isn't going to cut it. the simple fact that little problems such as these are being paid any amount of time is ridiculous. i am sure some where the standard has been set that this type of behaviour is accpeptable-shame on the instigators of this madness, as if our school board has nothing better to waste their time on.