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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused by many of the replies. If OP's post is accurate, he's talking about a middle school cheerleading squad (like the type that cheers next to football games). It may be that he's confused or that the end goal is competitive cheer, but middle school cheerleading in the school games context is not particularly athletic/certainly not anything like competitive cheer at any middle school I've heard of.

That said, if there's an actual coach involved, then I doubt making the team is a popularity contest and I don't think it's fair to equate cheerleaders with mean girls just because popular media presents things that way. FWIW, at my admittedly dorky/magnet public high school, drama kids were by far the most popular crowd/where the mean girls congregated.[/quote]

Are you kidding? 
The cheerleading coach at my kid's middle and high schools was the absolute worst snob of anyone I know and her decisions on which girls made cheerleader and at which level (basketball, football, varsity, etc.) were based almost totally on popularity and social standing, with the caveat that she had to include at least one black girl. My kids were not interested in cheerleading, but I have an acquaintance who gave this woman's husband a business contract to be sure her daughter would be picked for the squad. The daughter was a nice kid who couldn't hack the mean girl scene on the squad and quit after one year.[/quote]

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