The sport of Cheerleading

I highly disagree with your statment Jessica. I am a cheerleader, I have never cheered just to PLEASE someone. The whole point of getting up in front of a crowd is to get the crowd to support the other teams with you! The point of doing cheers is to get the crowd to yell with you and help encourage the team! The crowd shouldn't just watch the cheerleaders and be pleased, they should be getting involved with the spirit and other factors! The great lenghts that I go to as a cheerleader are to help get others involved, not just with supporting the teams, but the school as a whole. Even if there were no sports, our school, and I'm sure others would still have cheerleaders. I don't support just sports, I support all of the activites, and the student body, the faculty, the whole school in fact. The only way there would be no cheerleaders, is if there was no school! You keep saying that the crowd doesn't watch you, then you are a bad cheerleader! At our school, the cheerleaders have the utmost respect, and we are highly qualified. At games, when there is half time, our crowd stays, they don't go off to the concesions, because there is somthing better that food, school spirit. They stay to watch the dance team, the marching band, and the cheerleader, and not because they have to, because they want to. They yell with our cheers and get all rowdy for the next half. I there were no cheerleaders, then who would start the crowd yelling? Who would help them have school spirit? Many people say- the people who come to games come to watch the game, not the cheerleaders. At our school, they come to watch both, and if the cheerleader are any good, they would know the cheer between plays, so people don't have to try and watch the two at once. At our school, the cheerleaders are the ones who let the student body know when the games are, and when the clubs meet, and when the activities start. If we weren't there, then know one would come to anything, or join any clubs or activites. we also represent our stundents, when we go to ASB meetings and facutly meetings, we are the leaders of the school. Our don't think that our school could function without cheerleaders. Now maybe you beg to differ, but so far you haven't put in a good argument. Whether or not cheerleading is a sport, it is something totally worth wild and rewarding. Maybe you think your shcool hates having cheerleaders, but I think, from what you've said, is that they hate having BAD cheerleaders, like yourself. I know that if you were repersenting me at my school, with that attidute, then of course during the breaks of the game, I would talk, and not watch you, or yell with you. And with that attitude, of course i wouldn't think cheerleading was a sport. A good cheerleader beleives in themselves, and when they do that, others beleive in them too. So, for everyone out there who says cheerleading isn't worth it,and the people hate watching the cheerleaders, I say that you are a bad cheerleader in your attitude, and t worth it, only when you think it is worth it, because once you do, everyone else will think so too, and will give you so much more respect because of it!
-Suzie!
P.S. If anyone would beg to differ from this statement, then please do so!