Nacogdoches High School cheerleaders: skit controversy
By Clarencia Cynrae on October 8th, 2008*
Cheerleaders sell sexy images or violence. The Nacogdoches High School cheerleaders skit on gun violence against crime perpetuators raked up a battle between students who oppose gun violence and the school administration who said the performance was harmless.
Would you rather have a performance that warned about gun violence or a typical ra ra, shake the bon bon fare?
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October 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am
At Nacogdoches High School we try to make sure that our cheerleaders sell neither sex nor violence. This all started with a petition from a girl that writes a petition every year against the cheerleaders. Then a teacher made a bad judgement call in letting a student talk to the Daily Sentinel reporter about giving up photos he made with a school camera. Then “BAM” once the photos were on the Daily Sentinel website, they went everywhere!! The faculty and staff at NHS are very supportive and proud of our NHS cheerleaders!
An NHS teacher
October 9th, 2008 at 9:20 am
i know for a fact that nobody involved in the petition has ever started any sort of petition before, nor have they every had and problems with the cheerleaders. it is remarkably immature for a parent to say such false and slanderous things, especially against a young person perhaps a third of her age.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:29 am
oh, michelle, you are so wrong. i personally know the lovely girls who started the petition and know for a fact that none of them have ever written a petition before. these girls are being the change they want to see in the world, and we should applaud them, not criticize them. just the fact that parents are supporting their daughters for using murder as a joke sickens me, and i would be ashamed with myself.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am
The poor judgment here occurred when the administration let the skit be performed, and when the cheerleaders thought it was cute. Also i don’t think you can speak for all the faculty and staff, and I’d like proof of any other petition at all from the girl. Yeah, there’s not. It’s not even about the cheerleaders, it’s about the administration and censorship. Get over yourself.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:53 am
why was my response deleted?
the first comment is slanderous and contains very little truth. i can’t believe an adult would act in such a way, belittling people much younger than her simply because her child’s own actions have come under attack.
what the cheerleaders did shouldn’t and cannot be reasonably defended. it was morally wrong and the decisions they made are something they are going to have to live with.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I feel that this has been blown out of proportion by the media. I am a current student at NHS and I was attending the pep rally the day this occurred. While I do agree that it was in bad taste, I do not see how it has merited national news. I would like to think that we, as high school students, can be trusted to know the difference between a pep rally skit and an actual okay for execution.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:17 am
This is being blown way out of proportion. I have no problem with someone saying that the skit was wrong, but to take it to this level is just outragous. The skit might have been over the line a bit, but seriously how many people have not seen some sort of skit like this before. Little kids play with the type of guns that the cheerleaders were using. Taking this to national news is down right stupid cause with everything that is happening in America right now, this should not be a worry for Fox news or anyone. This needs to be handled by the School and the person who is doing this petition. I would really like to see the names of the people who signed the petition also.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:55 am
i don’t think anyone would have a problem with showing anybody the petition that questioned its legitimacy. and do not think that we took this to the national news; they picked it up from the daily sentinel. it’s not anyone’s fault but the media’s that it got as far as we did.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
i would just like to say that this whole ordeal is no ones fault. yes, the skit may have been in bad taste, and that has been noted many a time completely, but there was no reason for it to go this far. feelings are now being hurt. the cheerleaders have now been called the “death squad” and fearleaders” when anyone in their right mind can see that they meant no harm by the skit. if it was even a possibility that people would be offended by the skit, it would not have been put on. also, while the same group of girls did not create a petition last year, they targeted the cheerleaders when they were allowed to wear their uniforms, along with leggings, to school to promote school spirit. if these girls were so worried about violence in school, why did they not target the drama club when they carried toy swords and knives at the NHS open house around parents and children? the whole thing just seems kind of sketchy if you ask me.
January 24th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
why did the cheerleaders get in trouble for using guns yet drama uses them frequently??no one makes petitions for that now do they?and the news stations took the video without consent of all the under age students.someone should have done something about that.