Texas HS Squad Causes Stir After Mock Execution During Pep Rally
How Well Armed Do You Like Your HS Cheerleaders? - Like most schools across the country, Nacogdoches High is both Drug Free and Gun Free as a sign outside the building proudly boasts . . . unless, of course, you're a cheerleader then those kinds of "little details" get thrown out the window. Take, for instance, a recent pep rally at NHS and a skit designed to fire up the fans put on by the cheerleaders. The premise was simple enough (and oft repeated at HS pep rallies across the USA): the school mascot is kidnapped by students of the rival school (played by your JV cheerleaders, of course) and held of ransom. Your varsity cheerleaders ride in to the rescue and free the mascot, assuring that your team will march to victory at Friday 
night's big game. Oh, we forgot to mention: after freeing the mascot you then force the "kidnappers" to kneel in front of you, pull out your guns and shoot them in the head. After their deaths you throw money into the air (WTF?) and put their corpses in a pile so you dance on their graves! (Tony Soprano would be so proud! Go Fighting Mobsters!)
We think it may be that last little part that is causing the stir at Nacogdoches HS, although so far no one has been suspended and the administration does not seem to be overly concerned about its young ladies performing mob hits on their rivals. According to NHS principal Nathan "Deadeye" Chaddick, " . . . this was just a simple skit done by our cheerleaders just to promote some school spirit and motivate the football team at a pep rally ... they were doing like a little country, cowboy-type skit." He goes on to compare this friendly teen sports carnage to classic theatre adding, "What do they want us to do with Shakespeare when kids have swords stabbing each other or plays with some shooting? It's the same thing. It's the same little skit. But because these three girls have a personal thing going on against some cheerleaders, they feel they have a right to use this venue for their personal agenda or purpose, and I'm just not going to allow that." The "they" Chadwick is referring to are two students who wrote an editorial in the school newspaper titled "Fearleaders" that was--surprise!--critical of the skit. Chaddick, of course, got to edit the copy and eliminated three whole paragraphs that just happened questioned the administration's support for the skit. (An unedited version of the editorial is supposed to be posted to the Daily Sentinel on Sunday, but their Opinion page is currently on loading correctly. If it did, you might be able to read it here.)
Now, we don't think these cheerleaders should be kicked out of school or nothin', but we do have to question the decision-making skills of old Deadeye and anyone else at NHS who may have approved this skit beforehand or is not the least bit concerned about it now. (Daily Sentinel)
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YEEHAW! TEXAS! The only state that can make Alabama look intelligent by comparison.
Yeah, Muslim terrorist-style mock executions are such a GREAT image for high school cheerleaders to portray.
Of course, we can't expect any better from a bunch of inbred rednecks, can we?
Get the sand out of your vag! It's a f*cking pep rally! You can't find something better to complain about in this world we're living in? Get over it. Who cares? Finally - somebody does a pep rally with a little creativity, and there you are, moral authority above all, shouting them down. Get over it, and get a life. Loser.
"fearleaders" --classic! Horay for teenage journalism.
Well, it is Texas, isn't it? I'm surprised they didn't use real guns! :)
Please learn spelling and grammar next time before you post such a bad article. A skit is a skit. People take things way to serious.
Get over it...
Seriously, a high school skit with fake violence, dipicting the execution of rival team members? I'm 32 years old, and I wish the cheerleaders at my school would have been so creative!
Please stop trying to make this country into a Nanny State controled by the "moral majority". The same laws that are in place to protect the young journalists who wrote the article in the school paper, are also in place to allow the cheerleaders their freedom of expression.
Please stop.
This was a couple high school cheerleaders, usding FAKE violence, to dipict the demise of a rival team. Stop trying to make this country into a Nanny State, controlled by the "moral majority".
Try to remember that the same laws which are in place to protect the views of the young journalists who reported on this story, are also in place to protect the cheerleaders freedom of expression.
Bryan - Looking beyond the fact that this was simply poor taste and bad judgement, there is no reason to attack the entire state.
I am from Texas, have moved to Tennessee, and have plenty family and friends in Alabama as well.
I assure you the majority of the population of Nacogdoches, and Texas as well, isn't inbred.
Are you from Arkansas or something?
Go Principal!!! Finally an administrator that can get past the helicopter parents that overprotect their children. All the students were willing participants and not targeted as individuals. It's great the leadership of this school can let some theatrical drama in the students lives to get up some team spirit. And thanks to DD for showing how stupid the media can be, includind DD for trying to vilify Texas HS pep rally.
GO Deadeye!
Ooooh! Somebody touched the little cheerleaders and hurted there feelings!! Boo fucking hoo.
I'm tired of these damn cheerbitches doing what the hell they want in high school while the principal is blinded by their bouncing tits.
It's funny...all the posts here claiming this was "just a skit" are half-literate crap.
To call this "creativity" is a bit of a joke, as well, but that's not really the point.
The point is simply this: Once upon a time, in a place called Columbine...
If it was just a western cowboy type skit, as the eloquent principal says in the cheerleaders' defense, then why an execution? Come on, folks...it just don't fit the genre. Have you seen the video of this travesty? The music changes from the theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly to some kind of gangsta crap just before the victims get it in the back of the head. No...not exactly a classic Western moment.
And let's don't talk about the laws governing freedom of expression--you're showing your ignorance. The basic Constitutional freedoms we enjoy as adults do not apply to children and they do not apply in schools. They never have. Period.
The problem here is that in the telling of this very simple story, the protagonists chose to perform an act associated with terrorism and gang violence. These were the good guys in the skit. Have we become so immersed in "gangsta" culture that we can't see what's wrong with this picture?
Bad, bad judgment.
The final verdict? Let the cheerleaders go. Hang the sponsor from a yardarm, and reprimand the principal for defending such a ludicrous position.
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Okay, look, Bryan. I am from Nacogdoches, Texas and noone here is inbred.... That's Woden, thank you very much. And against popular belief, hardly anyone here carries guns. I see you're from Alabama. Here we talk about y'all being inbred. I am a senior at the high school and was on the side line during this pep rally. Every pep rally we hurt or kill or knock someone out to depict victory at the game. Center's mascot is the Center Rough- Riders, as is yeehaw, guns, and bang bang!!! GET THE FUCK over it!!! It's just a pep rally. It's not like people around the United States are really offended. They're all just attention deprived jealous bitches. Like i said get over it!
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