Lawmaker Seeks to End Sexy Cheerleading

[Sean Smith]

You know, every potentially naughty thing on Earth doesn't need to have a STATE LAW made to address it.  

There are plenty of avenues for the parents to make their local school behave itself.

[onions!]

There are plenty of avenues for the parents to make their local school behave itself.

& if the legislation passes one of the avenues a parent could take will have been used.

[Brad Johnson]

Sean Smith wrote:
There are plenty of avenues for the parents to make their local school behave itself.

& if the legislation passes one of the avenues a parent could take will have been used.

If it happens it will eliminate one more aspect of the parents' ability to control their children's education at the local level by ripping away their control over that aspect of their child's life and handing it over to the state. This helps the parents how?

Brad

[Sean Smith]

There are plenty of avenues for the parents to make their local school behave itself.

& if the legislation passes one of the avenues a parent could take will have been used.

Riiight.  I'm sure a vaguely-worded state law will get rid of rampant booty-shaking.  Since they are so effective at eliminating poverty, crime, illegal drugs, and so forth.  

[onions!]

I was trying to imply that if enough people agreed that that was one of the avenues they could take.Assuming that I meant that .gov intervention would be the best thing would be incorrect.I was saying that that's one avenue.

The law doesn't have to be vague either.If I'd been asked( & I'm shocked that I haven't been.)I'd put every student enrolled in public schools in uniform.Shirt & slacks-boys & girls-nothing else.No extra curricular sports either.Gym class through grade twelve.Booty shaking problem solved.

Let kids learn their boundries from their parents.

[White Horseradish]

Ya know, the rest of the world seems to do sports without cheerleaders just fine.

Those of you lamenting the sad state of eductational budgets might want to consider whether the money spent on teaching high school girls to wiggle their butts and buying the clothes for this activity might not be best spent on something more educational.

[Matt Payne]

"I don't think this law would really shake the industry at all. In fact, it would give parents a better feeling, mostly dads and boyfriends, too," Farias said.

Industry?

In the grand scheme of teen sexuality and morality, I doubt that cheerleading stands as a leading influencer of behavior.