Yes, again with the spanking.
Although not in the way the wink-and-nudge set might have it.
I can’t for the life of me imagine how in the world I’d have gotten away with anything even approaching this behavior.
I can’t imagine how any civilized society could tolerate this.
Cheerleaders + Bikinis = Good news story. Especially on a slow news day.
I think this was a bunch of kids a little out of control and needed to be smacked down a bit. But not serious enough to deprive them of their education. Compare this to Columbine and you’ll get my drift.
Read the first line of Sunrazor’s post that inspired my post. Note the words ‘or civvies.’ Even if you join the cheerleading squad, what you do in civvies should be your own biz.
I liked the segment on last nights news a little better. At least it had gratuitous scenes from Bring it On! and Sugar & Spice interspersed with the stupid story.
Ummm… dude… I’m AGREEING with you. Might want to re-read my post.
I have no problem with the bikini pick and think a suspension for that is unwarranted.
But the lewd pic while they were in cheerleading uniforms? I say the school did the right thing by punishing for that one.
I think the fact that the Principal, mother to one of the cheerleaders, was given about $50k and a letter of recommendation to quit the job- you know, the job she abused by allowing her daughter to run rampant over the school- is the part that pisses me off the most.
I HATE it when people in authority abuse that power… and then get rewarded for it. She should’ve been kicked out on her ass.
Wow… First, definitely taking one for the team there, Hal, thanks. I think everyone else was afraid to find out… But now that we all know… WTF??? Assuming there is no other definition of which we are unaware, since when can a group of teenagers hold down an adult and shove something in any orifice without some kind of legal repercussion? What’s the legal term for forcible anal penetration with an object? I realize it’s not a rigid object, but this required some removal of the woman’s clothing, would it not? If a group of teachers held down a student and did this we’d all be lining up to stone them to death.
As to everything else, this school system seems to be way out of whack… you let students talk on cell phones during class without so much as a blink but when they’re photographed on a website that has nothing to do with your school you suspend them for three weeks of classes??? I know for sure that many of my students have mySpace pages and a good majority of them have inappropriate photos of them doing inappropriate things; and their parents are too stupid or trusting to know or do anything about it. I think too many parents are too concerned with not pissing their kids off and keeping the relationship friendly do dish out some serious guidance/discipline for their kids.
[Heathers]Where’s Christian Slater when you need him?[\Heathers]
The applicator is rigid.
That’s what she said!
True. All the more reason.
I find it very, very difficult to believe that the “chocolate tampon” being referred to in this article is the type being described by Howard Stern, of all people. That would amount sexual assault at the least, rape at worst. No way would that be buried on the second page, past breathless accounts of photos and pissy behavior. If an article quoted a woman saying she received a facial without context immediately make you conclude someone came on her face? Get a grip, people.
My guess is that the chocolate tampon was, in fact, chocolate shaped like a tampon. There are any number of tasteless confections available in the world, even to cheerleaders in Texas.
If it makes you feel any better, I think it was 75k. 
God damn, Dopers may be smart, but they make up for it with a lack of common sense and an innate bitterness towards individuals with athletic ability or popularity.
Here is one reference to actual chocolate tampons.
http://www.periodthemovie.com/CAST.html
I think that a tacky chocolate treat is about a 100 times more likely explanation of this incident than a sex assault with a tampon.
Again, beyond getting caught, what have these girls done that 50% of typical high-schoolers don’t do anyway. Here’s a bit of reality for you folks: high school kids drink and are stupid enough to photograph it. I certainly saw plenty of party-shots as a high-schooler, the only difference is the ability to publish and distribute this stupidity via The Facebook or Webshots. Again, a suspension or permanent removal from the team is fine, but two weeks of suspension is absolutely insanse if that’s what occurred. At the majority of high schools, you aren’t permitted any make-up work over suspension days; that punishment might well lead to failing half of their courses.
I wonder how long before Hollywood buys the rights to this travesty.
And how many guys will watch it with the sound off.
Bitterness? I’m certainly not bitter toward the cheerleaders, and certainly not because of their athletic ability or popularity.
The fact of the matter is, I was a varsity athlete in high school and in college; I happen to be a member of my university’s (a well-known university with a fine academic AND athletic tradition) athletic hall of fame.
My beef with these kids is not that they did dumb shit; EVERYBODY does dumb shit. But the fact of the matter is that when you represent your school- when you CHOOSE to represent your school- you are held to a higher standard. And kids being kids is fine- but not when you’re wearing your stinking UNIFORM.
The only difference is not the posting- it’s the fact that you’re supposed to THINK before you act when you hold yourself out as an example of your school. Whatever the consequences of their actions are, they should have known.
Check your sig line, threemae.
I’m not defending their actions, I’m asking for proportionality in the response to their actions. Or should we go ahead and hang them all right now?
At any rate, the reporting on this virtual non-incident has been so crappy that nobody can even determine what the cheerleaders were suspended from let alone their actions to deserve it. Until those points are clarified, I’m not going to bother with this thread anymore.
I sure did not want to get in the middle of this thread, but it is a little sidetracked. This story got a bit of local radio coverage before it went national and before any cheerleaders were suspended.
The cheerleader coach who resigned did an inteview with a Dallas redio station and I caught part of it. The point she was trying to make was that she had tried to discipline these girls for violating team policy (the sex store pictures). She did not try to suspend them from school. The principal (one of the girl’s mother) contravened her attempt. The girls in question took full advantage to continue to tease and intimidate the teacher until she felt she had no recourse but to quit. The teacher contacted the media, and this lead to the interview.
The school’s board was not aware of any of this and the first time they heard it was on the radio. They were not happy with madam principal. Especially when they found out that this was not a unique incident. That’s when they came down on the cheerleaders and the principal.
So, these girls were not suspended for a simple naughty night out.
Well, don’t agree with me so darned … agreeably, then!
So I think the important lesson we can all take away from this is that when cheerleaders get naughty …
um, what was I saying?