McKinney Cheerleaders hit the big time

Newsweek is all over the McKinney cheerleader story: Boozing, bikinis and bullying: how the scandalous behavior of five high-school cheerleaders rocked a bedroom community near Dallas.

The pictures posted on MySpace.com looked like the latest installment of “Girls Gone Wild.” In them, cheerleaders from McKinney North High School in Texas exhibited all variety of bawdy behavior. One shot showed a bikini-clad girl sharing a bottle of booze with a friend. Another featured a cheerleader and several other girls in risqué poses offering glimpses of their panties. But the most infamous photo of all was taken in a Condoms To Go store. Five smiling cheerleaders dressed in uniform posed with large candles shaped like penises. At least one of them appeared to be simulating fellatio. “It would be an overstatement to describe any of the photographs as pornographic, but it would be an understatement to describe them as harmless high jinks,” wrote Harold Jones, a lawyer hired by the school district to investigate the incident. “Quite frankly, I personally found it ‘creepy’.”

In now way am I condoning this behavior, but these girls are living out the lifestyles they see reflected all around them in popular culture. Is anyone concerned about that?

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Mary Timler 1 year ago 1 point
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OK, OK, we've heard plenty about the impact of their behavior on teachers, MySpace, but I want to hear some in-depth coverage of the real damages this group inflicted on members of the student body . . . having raised teenagers myself . . . did absenteeism climb inexplictly in classes of some of these girls, because they pciked on certain targets, male or female?

Did they cause medical damage, or require a student to quietly seek psychological treatment, at their parents' or state's expense, because they believed the lies of bullies that defined falsely their self-worth?

Did certain targets of these girls excuse themselves from classes abrubtly to vomit in the restrooms, then lie they had the flu?

Did any diabetic targets of these bullies suddenly experience activating monitors due to kin shock from stress?

Such bullies cost families and students millions of dollars a year needlessly in health/mental health care. The victims bear scars and incorrect self-definition for years.

The bullies here need mental health tretment more than their victims.

God Help any teenager's parent!

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Paul Woodward 3 months ago 1 point
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They are just girls growing up, discovering their sexuality.
Has been happening since the dawn of time.
Good on ya Girls!!!

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