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Cheerleader kicked off team for kissing boyfriend

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The cheerleader was a boy and it is Texas. Can't say I'm surprised.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44903115/ns/us_news-life/#.TpiCw95E6rs

Some other parents agreed the boy was being unfairly punished, KRIS reported. They told the station one cheerleader who had a child and another who is currently pregnant are still on the team and have not faced any disciplinary action.
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So you can get knocked up, but don't kiss another boy?
 
And they didn't see him do so in person, they got it off a surveillance cam. According to the student in question, at least, they never check the cams without something being stolen, so he thinks they were looking for a reason.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Sexuality is fine, as long as it is heterosexual.
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This is a bit off topic, but I was actually a prude quite surprised when I went to my high school pep rally and the cheerleaders went out and did their pelvic gyrations and hip thrusting in short skirts. I've always wondered how awkward the teachers must feel having a dozen minors give them the booty shake.
 
My old high school recently banned the cheerleaders from wearing their uniforms to school on the day of football games (a tradition I remember from my school days) because their skirts are too short.

They have no problem with them wearing them to actual games or competitions though.
 
I have to question if this is a sexual orientation thing or not. Even in my day PDA's between the players and the cheerleaders was frowned upon. While I agree with it being over the top and stupid I'm not sure it warrants playing the gay card. Especially since playing the gay card in itself seems to play on the stereotypical "Texas redneck" angle.

The world's much too complicated these says. I'm sure if I were in high school now I'd be in much more trouble than I was because of it.:)
 
Furcifer said:
I have to question if this is a sexual orientation thing or not. Even in my day PDA's between the players and the cheerleaders was frowned upon. While I agree with it being over the top and stupid I'm not sure it warrants playing the gay card. Especially since playing the gay card in itself seems to play on the stereotypical "Texas redneck" angle.

The world's much too complicated these says. I'm sure if I were in high school now I'd be in much more trouble than I was because of it.:)
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In my day (about 3 and a half decades ago), it was generally known and accepted that some on the football team were "involved" with some on the cheer-leading squad. It wouldn't have shocked anyone to discover that the captain of the football team spent prom night with the head cheerleader. So yeah, this looks like sexual orientation was the issue.
 
Chris L said:
In my day (about 3 and a half decades ago), it was generally known and accepted that some on the football team were "involved" with some on the cheer-leading squad. It wouldn't have shocked anyone to discover that the captain of the football team spent prom night with the head cheerleader. So yeah, this looks like sexual orientation was the issue.
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That's not PDA on school property or at a school event you're describing.

I just remember there were a few guys dating cheerleaders on the team and they had an "announcement" about fooling around during games or on school property. Holding hands or perhaps hugging was OK, but open mouth kissing was prohibited and of course they threatened to discipline up to and including being kicked off either team. Was it strictly enforced? I don't think so, but it was certainly on the table.

I'd be surprised if most schools now don't have similar rules about PDA's on school property or at school functions. Most of them are minors to begin with and condoning this sort of thing is just not a good idea. This has never had anything to do with sexual orientation, at least in the past 20 years, so why would it now? Short of a very similar incident happening and nothing being done about it, which again I highly doubt, I think you'd be hard pressed to say this has anything to do with orientation.
 
wardenclyffe said:
But this wasn't PDA unless P stands for "private, but caught on security camera."

Ward
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You have no expectation of privacy on public property. Except possibly in the bathroom (which if there were cameras would have certainly landed the school district in court by now), but this was in a music hall. That makes it very much a public display of affection.
 
Some other parents agreed the boy was being unfairly punished, KRIS reported. They told the station one cheerleader who had a child and another who is currently pregnant are still on the team and have not faced any disciplinary action...
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I'd predict they'll overturn it though. Sounds like the administrators didn't even read their own handbook rules.
 
...the District does not suspend students for kissing other students at school, regardless of the gender of the student."
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His family met with school administrators on Thursday. They said they were told the two-day suspension was under review, KRIS reported.
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Lame.
 
I'd like to point out that this is a small-town American phenomenon, not a purely Texas phenomenon. Alice is a town of 19,000 and has its attendant small-town "morality", which translates in this case into anti-homosexuality.

Any small town in the US, regardless of state, is going to share those same conservative small-town values. Texas, by dint of its size, has more such towns than any other state in the nation, so it has acquired a reputation (especially among people who do not live here) as being full of intolerant rednecks. The reality is much different, particularly in our several huge cities.

And even small-town culture is different from what it once was. 20 years ago that kid would likely have been beaten and battered by the local "fag-bashing" young males, in addition to whatever administrative actions. Now he gets national coverage (good on him!) and an outpouring of sympathy (well deserved) with a "review" of the case forthcoming. The times they are indeed a-changin'... even in small-town Texas.
 
Furcifer said:
That's not PDA on school property or at a school event you're describing.

I just remember there were a few guys dating cheerleaders on the team and they had an "announcement" about fooling around during games or on school property. Holding hands or perhaps hugging was OK, but open mouth kissing was prohibited and of course they threatened to discipline up to and including being kicked off either team. Was it strictly enforced? I don't think so, but it was certainly on the table.

I'd be surprised if most schools now don't have similar rules about PDA's on school property or at school functions. Most of them are minors to begin with and condoning this sort of thing is just not a good idea. This has never had anything to do with sexual orientation, at least in the past 20 years, so why would it now? Short of a very similar incident happening and nothing being done about it, which again I highly doubt, I think you'd be hard pressed to say this has anything to do with orientation.
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True it isn't, but that also happened. A regular feature of my high school life was trying to walk around amorous couples in the hallway as I made my way to my next class. This was in a small town (population about 20,000) in Massachusetts. I doubt teenagers have changed that much in 35 years.
 
Vortigern99 said:
I'd like to point out that this is a small-town American phenomenon, not a purely Texas phenomenon. Alice is a town of 19,000 and has its attendant small-town "morality", which translates in this case into anti-homosexuality.
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From bitter personal experience in a town of similar size in Kansas I do have to agree with you. My step-daughter (14) was accused of kissing another girl.

The problem was the whole thing was driven by malice but that didn't seem to stop the authorities. We eventually got through it, but there are still people in this town shun the family over incident.

We sat down and had a long talk about the whole thing. We reinforced with our daughter we really didn't care what her orientation was, as long as her partner made her happy, and she the same for her partner.

So far she has displayed all the symptoms of a typical boy crazy teenager, but if that changes I am fine with that
 
gee. In my "high school" (college in france) there was a distributor of condom, and a sign asking the student not to drop the used condom on the ground but in trashcan.

I am just guessing that such a school setting would bring a lot of US parents to apoplexy.

Banned for kissing sheesh.
 
Furcifer said:
I have to question if this is a sexual orientation thing or not. Even in my day PDA's between the players and the cheerleaders was frowned upon. While I agree with it being over the top and stupid I'm not sure it warrants playing the gay card. Especially since playing the gay card in itself seems to play on the stereotypical "Texas redneck" angle.

The world's much too complicated these says. I'm sure if I were in high school now I'd be in much more trouble than I was because of it.:)
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One of the female cheerleaders that's still on the squad is pregnant. I'm thinking there's a pretty reasonable chance that this is an orientation thing.
 
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