Cheerleading coaches dismissed over smiley face

AnneMarble · Oct 3, 2006

According to this story, two volunteer cheerleading coaches in Frederick, Maryland were dismissed after one of them painted a smiley face on her stomach and then showed it to her seven-year-old and eight-year-old students during a practice. (The article says she "flashed" the student, but then she points out that she only showed them a few inches of her stomach.) They said they were doing it to cheer the kids up. However, the sports association got three complaints about this, so the two coaches were let go a couple of days later.

Am I the only one who thinks this is nuts? I never attended cheerleading camp. But when I was in summer camp, I often saw my counsellors in

bathing suits

! OK, that might be because we had swimming lessons, but still...

BradyH1861 · Oct 3, 2006

I never attended any type of cheerleading camp obviously, but I have no idea who it was at my high school who used to hide in the bleachers and watch the cheerleaders practice...........

Brady

expatbrat · Oct 3, 2006

Yeap - that is nuts!

robeiae · Oct 4, 2006

More details.

That's just sad. And if I had known about this, I would have lifted my shirt when I was coaching basketball at the Y (I didn't want to do it)...

Stew21 · Oct 4, 2006

how incredibly stupid. wouldn't let her say goodbye to them, no warning, no nothing and dismissed in front of the children. Bad judgment.

Godfather · Oct 4, 2006

thats ridiculous.

just think how far we've gone nowadays. everything, every little thing is abuse these days! i'm waiting for the court case against the teacher who gave their student detention.

Jaycinth · Oct 4, 2006

What do you expect. It was F-REDNECK MARYLAND!

(For the Marylander's round here....not that you'll admit anything.....
Fredneck Muurlan' ok. yeah, that's what I mean, uh huh.)

writerterri · Oct 4, 2006

robeiae said:
More details.

That's just sad. And if I had known about this, I would have lifted my shirt when I was coaching basketball at the Y (I didn't want to do it)...

Does everyone know how saucy you are at the "Y"? *grin*

SC Harrison · Oct 5, 2006

Am I the only one who thinks Ms. Smith drawing a smiley face on her belly is not only a good idea, but a great one?

She already looks pretty good. Add some impromptu body art, a little house music, throw in a "might get caught" frantic lovemaking scenario. It's gold.

My God. Have I been thinking outloud again?

C.bronco · Oct 5, 2006

Stomach Flashes! No Way!
but seriously, we should all be ashamed of our bellies and hide them, and be ashamed of them as well. It's a serious human flaw that we have body parts. Each and every part is a disgrace, and holds the potential to uproot society and corrupt the innocent.
Never admit you have one, of any sort! Let's do as they do in Saudi, and cover all parts except for our eyes, but then, yanno, eyes can be provacative as well!
Oh, nasty, nasty DNA.

September skies · Oct 5, 2006

That's plain stupid. I think cheerleaders all over the nation should protest by painting a smilie face on their tummy and then picket -- first call the newspapers and television stations -- and then picket. Hey, it worked for the Mexicans. (I mean, they got attention, didn't they?)

KimJo · Oct 6, 2006

From the sounds of it, the coach didn't expose any more of her belly than most girls/women who wear low-rise pants and short shirts... I have an 8-year-old daughter who did cheering last season, and if one of her coaches had done this to cheer up the group, I would have thought it was cute and a nice thing to do to boost morale. Maybe I'm just weird...

Christine N. · Oct 6, 2006

Heck, half the cheerleading uniforms in the world show more stomach than that.

Silly. Is there something odd in the water in Frederick that makes people act stupid?

robeiae · Oct 6, 2006

September skies said:
That's plain stupid. I think cheerleaders all over the nation should protest by painting a smilie face on their tummy and then picket -- first call the newspapers and television stations -- and then picket. Hey, it worked for the Mexicans. (I mean, they got attention, didn't they?)

I just had this vision of mobs of high school and college cheerleaders, in their uniforms, storming Congress.

Toss a zombie in there and we'd really have something...

SC Harrison · Oct 6, 2006

Christine N. said:
Silly. Is there something odd in the water in Frederick that makes people act stupid?

You are mistaken. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Frederick or any businesses therein. Furthermore, you would do well to keep your tone more moderate in the future.

Sincerely,
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sassandgroove · Oct 6, 2006

um...yeah.....I got nothin'.

dclary · Oct 6, 2006

Could someone send that poor cheerleader to my house. I'll look at the smiley face on her belly and not be offended at all.

Promise.

Cheerleading coaches dismissed over smiley face

AnneMarble

Nefarious Ghost Fan

BradyH1861

Hold Fast.

expatbrat

Look what we made:

robeiae

Touch and go

Stew21

Godfather

back door man

Jaycinth

Your Cuddly Sociopathic

writerterri

It's a dorky day!

SC Harrison

Dances With Hamsters

C.bronco

I have plans...

September skies

cloud watching

KimJo

Outside the box, with the werewolves

Christine N.

haz a shiny new book cover

robeiae

Touch and go

SC Harrison

Dances With Hamsters

sassandgroove

Sassy haircut

dclary

Unabashed Mercenary