Southlake Carroll High School is a suburban Metroplex high school that, over the past decade or so, turned into a proverbial Texas high school football powerhouse. This past season, the Dragons won their second straight Texas 5A-Div. II championship and were named the mythical no. 1 high school football team in the country by USA Today.
However, according to this Ft. Worth Star Telegraph article, as tough as competition is in the Southlake football program, it’s nothing compared to the competition in the cheerleading program:
SOUTHLAKE — The Carroll school district has been consumed for weeks about how to handle the selection of cheerleaders for Carroll Senior High School’s varsity squad.
Investigations have been conducted, grievances filed and several meetings held between administrators and parents. Tonight, the school board will convene behind closed doors to consider a request by parents of 12 cheerleaders to cut more than half the squad members, who the parents say don’t deserve to be on the team. . .
Read the entire sordid tale, which does not mention the possible solution of forming a parent-cheerleader team at Southlake to mollify the demands of several of the mothers involved.
This is why I don’t allow my girls to be cheerleaders: too dangerous!!
“Too Inclusive” Cheerleading Squad Draws Parental Ire
This just in from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Parents of some cheerleaders selected for a high school squad have filed a grievance with school officials claiming the selection process was overly inclusive.
The Carroll Independent School District boar
Only in Texas.
This is why those of around Southlake, i.e. Keller, Watauga, Fort Worth, Hazlet, etc. get such a laugh at Southlake’s expense. This could give 90210 a run for the money as a mind numbingly, inane sitcom. They can’t or won’t teach their kids how to grow up. Silver spoon syndrome – can’t face the real world with it’s ups and downs so get mommy and daddy to hire an expensive legal firm to get Muffy and Mitzi on the cheer squad even though they have no talent. Or… buy enough steroids and get some extra assistance from the Cowboys coaching staff (wink, wink) so that the football team can win it all. See ya in about 15 years when your livers fail and mommy and daddy can’t buy your way out of trouble or into success. What clowns!