High school cheerleading squads are perhaps the most visible face of a school’s female population, telling fans of the home and visiting teams just what the girls at that school are all about. Judging by the dance routine performed by the dance team at Jonesboro High in Georgia a few weeks ago, the message they were sending about their female population was this: our names collectively are Barbie, Candy and Jasmine, and we’re just working at the strip club until we finish nursing school.
Which is not to imply that the girls Jonesboro High or their dancers are anything but fine, chaste young ladies. But that sure isn’t the impression you get from the routine the squad performed at halftime on Jan. 13. So it’s little wonder why the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION is reporting that embarrassed administrators have barred the squad from performing for the rest of the year.
Was the routine overly risque for teenagers, or is this wild overreaction by the school district? See the video after the jump and judge for yourself:
My main question is: didn’t the dance team have some sort of staff oversight? I know our school’s cheer and dance teams had a faculty member who supervised them and developed their routines. Then again, she also married a former student more than half her age two months after he graduated, so maybe she wasn’t the best judge of character, but still…no one reviewed the dance ahead of time and thought “this seems excessive”?
I’m certainly no prude, but that routine seems pretty adult for a high school dance team. It’s hard to argue that it looks like it should be performed by some girl named Lacey or Nikki on the center stage while accompanied by AC/DC or Guns ‘n’ Roses. Or at the least, that it’s a bad version of a dance routine from “Chicago” as performed at an off-Strip showgirl show (which I’ve seen before - Bob Fosse would be doing jazz hands in his grave if he knew).
At the end of the day, you don’t want your school’s dance team to be known by the degrading title of the YouTube video. But maybe I’m just old and easily offended these days. What do you think?
6:06 pm on January 28th, 2009
we have the full six minute version…posted it about 2 ago, still the wack sound tho, just an FYI
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6:09 pm on January 28th, 2009
They should however be cited for felony lack of rythym.
6:11 pm on January 28th, 2009
who would want to waste 6 minutes watching that garbage…….dance team shouldnt be suspended the coach and principal should be fired.
6:34 pm on January 28th, 2009
This would be a perfect routine for this year's Super Bowl, as a salute to Tampa's numerous strip clubs.
http://sportsbybrooks.com/super-bowl-filler-fyi-tampa-still-has-strip-clubs-22027
6:39 pm on January 28th, 2009
That fat girl is awesome.
7:35 pm on January 28th, 2009
I couldn't even tell what song they were dancing to. Any ideas?
7:38 pm on January 28th, 2009
At least it's a better performance than pretending to shoot your opponents execution style.
7:43 pm on January 28th, 2009
I enjoyed it, although the camera could have zoomed in some more.
7:50 pm on January 28th, 2009
These cheerleaders sure look ready to "Bring It On!"
7:55 pm on January 28th, 2009
the message they were sending about their female population was this: our names collectively are Barbie, Candy and Jasmine, and we’re just working at the strip club until we finish nursing school
I believe you mean Barbi, Candi and Jasmyne. Stripper grammar often includes interchanging i's and y's.
7:57 pm on January 28th, 2009
This doesn't belong in a high school game, or any game for that matter.
7:58 pm on January 28th, 2009
Does Spearmint Rhino offer college scholarships?
8:07 pm on January 28th, 2009
VYP:
I'll guess "The Humpty Dance".
8:08 pm on January 28th, 2009
VYP:
I'll go with "Shake Shake Shake Your Booty".
8:15 pm on January 28th, 2009
I'll say Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It".
8:17 pm on January 28th, 2009
These gals are all ready to proudly represent the University of Georgia.
8:23 pm on January 28th, 2009
"Baby Got Back"
8:24 pm on January 28th, 2009
This truly proves cheerleading is a contact sport.
8:34 pm on January 28th, 2009
Someone asked who the faculty member who oversaw the performance??? Based on the size of those girls I would guess Jessica Simpson. The only strip club they would be employeed in requires a magnetic door to buzz you in and a pat down.
8:36 pm on January 28th, 2009
"Doin' Da Butt"
9:13 pm on January 28th, 2009
"Looking Through the Eyes of Love"?
9:40 pm on January 28th, 2009
"Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong"?
12:14 am on January 29th, 2009
"Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Cheerleaders)"?
1:07 am on January 29th, 2009
I wonder how Imus would describe the routine by those “HO”s
9:34 am on January 29th, 2009
what i saw wrong was the heavy girl on the far side didn't know the routine and was off step, the males should have had shirts on and the one on the left needed to wear his own pants- not his big brothers and to pull them up(his panties were showing). it was boring and not entertaining. get them a coach and let them contuinue with a new routine.
11:12 am on January 29th, 2009
I don't see anything wrong with the routine except the fat girl with no rhythm.
But, then again, I do live in Tampa.
3:50 pm on January 29th, 2009
I couldnt stop laughing at the simplicity and hilarity of Freddy's (#5) response.