Daughter wants to try out for Poms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwood has a very wonderful strong hard working team. I will say there not the Best in the game. But there not the under dogs. They have a wonderful coach and students /dancers. Northwood Pom’s really work for what they want . Your child would be coming home happy to be apart of this team. They came out very strong the pass 3 years . So sit back and watch it unfold ! Remember there’s different levels also for a team that doesn’t have a full gym space to practice or for a team where dancers dance in and out side of school lets no forget a team who follows rules from MCPS don’t practice on snow days. Yeah 2nd place never looked so good

There’s actually word going around that Walt Whitman stole choreography from a team and the team are speaking out. I hope MCPS Athetics speak out on this. It’s not fair to the other teams if plagiarism isn’t allowed in the classroom , it shouldn’t be allowed here.

[Anonymous]

QO is looking for a new coach if anyone is interested.

https://mcps.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=190019T&lang=en

[Anonymous]

They are terrible, that much a know. Poms do have great skills at top MCPS schools, which Northwoods is not. Have her watch videos from counties and decide. Losing builds character and you never know in HS sports, one year division 3 next year county champs. It happened to Sherwood cheerleading, they were in division II and came from lower division to win the whole county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are terrible, that much a know. Poms do have great skills at top MCPS schools, which Northwoods is not. Have her watch videos from counties and decide. Losing builds character and you never know in HS sports, one year division 3 next year county champs. It happened to Sherwood cheerleading, they were in division II and came from lower division to win the whole county.

Yeah I heard Northwood didn’t do well this year either but at least they came up with their own dance. Whitman should give back their trophy if what is said is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwood has a very wonderful strong hard working team. I will say there not the Best in the game. But there not the under dogs. They have a wonderful coach and students /dancers. Northwood Pom’s really work for what they want . Your child would be coming home happy to be apart of this team. They came out very strong the pass 3 years . So sit back and watch it unfold ! Remember there’s different levels also for a team that doesn’t have a full gym space to practice or for a team where dancers dance in and out side of school lets no forget a team who follows rules from MCPS don’t practice on snow days. Yeah 2nd place never looked so good

There’s actually word going around that Walt Whitman stole choreography from a team and the team are speaking out. I hope MCPS Athetics speak out on this. It’s not fair to the other teams if plagiarism isn’t allowed in the classroom , it shouldn’t be allowed here.

Where’s the evidence? Do you have the video?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwood has a very wonderful strong hard working team. I will say there not the Best in the game. But there not the under dogs. They have a wonderful coach and students /dancers. Northwood Pom’s really work for what they want . Your child would be coming home happy to be apart of this team. They came out very strong the pass 3 years . So sit back and watch it unfold ! Remember there’s different levels also for a team that doesn’t have a full gym space to practice or for a team where dancers dance in and out side of school lets no forget a team who follows rules from MCPS don’t practice on snow days. Yeah 2nd place never looked so good

There’s actually word going around that Walt Whitman stole choreography from a team and the team are speaking out. I hope MCPS Athetics speak out on this. It’s not fair to the other teams if plagiarism isn’t allowed in the classroom , it shouldn’t be allowed here.

Where’s the evidence? Do you have the video?

I saw their performances online. Great performances but it is strange that they disabled the comments and the outstanding dislikes on the video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwood has a very wonderful strong hard working team. I will say there not the Best in the game. But there not the under dogs. They have a wonderful coach and students /dancers. Northwood Pom’s really work for what they want . Your child would be coming home happy to be apart of this team. They came out very strong the pass 3 years . So sit back and watch it unfold ! Remember there’s different levels also for a team that doesn’t have a full gym space to practice or for a team where dancers dance in and out side of school lets no forget a team who follows rules from MCPS don’t practice on snow days. Yeah 2nd place never looked so good

There’s actually word going around that Walt Whitman stole choreography from a team and the team are speaking out. I hope MCPS Athetics speak out on this. It’s not fair to the other teams if plagiarism isn’t allowed in the classroom , it shouldn’t be allowed here.

I wouldn’t be shocked at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are terrible, that much a know. Poms do have great skills at top MCPS schools, which Northwoods is not. Have her watch videos from counties and decide. Losing builds character and you never know in HS sports, one year division 3 next year county champs. It happened to Sherwood cheerleading, they were in division II and came from lower division to win the whole county.

Whitman is in a higher level now.

[Anonymous]

Try to direct her focus to academics, extracurriculars that are unique or would stand out to colleges, or athletics that have scholarship potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try to direct her focus to academics, extracurriculars that are unique or would stand out to colleges, or athletics that have scholarship potential.

Or...... let her do what she wants. It is dance team, she isn't robbing a bank. Kids are actually allowed to have fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are terrible, that much a know. Poms do have great skills at top MCPS schools, which Northwoods is not. Have her watch videos from counties and decide. Losing builds character and you never know in HS sports, one year division 3 next year county champs. It happened to Sherwood cheerleading, they were in division II and came from lower division to win the whole county.

Whitman is in a higher level now.

Whitman has been good for a while now. I don't know anything about them stealing choreography but I can tell you that either way, the team is still very good dancers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are terrible, that much a know. Poms do have great skills at top MCPS schools, which Northwoods is not. Have her watch videos from counties and decide. Losing builds character and you never know in HS sports, one year division 3 next year county champs. It happened to Sherwood cheerleading, they were in division II and came from lower division to win the whole county.

Whitman is in a higher level now.

Whitman has been good for a while now. I don't know anything about them stealing choreography but I can tell you that either way, the team is still very good dancers.

Is there such thing as completely original choreography at the high school level? It is all basically somebody regurgitating something they learned somewhere else and putting a twist on it based on skill level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are terrible, that much a know. Poms do have great skills at top MCPS schools, which Northwoods is not. Have her watch videos from counties and decide. Losing builds character and you never know in HS sports, one year division 3 next year county champs. It happened to Sherwood cheerleading, they were in division II and came from lower division to win the whole county.

Whitman is in a higher level now.

Whitman has been good for a while now. I don't know anything about them stealing choreography but I can tell you that either way, the team is still very good dancers.

Is there such thing as completely original choreography at the high school level? It is all basically somebody regurgitating something they learned somewhere else and putting a twist on it based on skill level.

I’ve heard from my daughters and their teammates that they stole another teams hip hop routine from another state, step by step. Choreography is like writing a paper, dance moves are like words, is it not plagiarism when you copy someone else’s creativity and ideas? If plagiarism isn’t allowed in the classroom then why not in this sport. I think their should be consequences for this but guessing they’re a W school, they’ll get a slap on the wrist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay I watched a YouTube but I still don’t understand what makes it not cheerleading and why if it is just dance team they wear cheerleading uniforms.

Poms do dance routines. Cheerleaders do stunts, pyramids, tumbling, and dance.

[Anonymous]

Former Pom here----I have a doctorate from Harvard.