And in the world of trivial PC news, more snowflakes.


A New Jersey high school has ended tryouts and will allow every applicant to join the cheer-leading squad, after a parent complained about her daughter not making the team.

The East Hanover Board of Education decreed that the cheer squad at Hanover Park High School will drop its standards and will allow all applicants to join the team, according to the New York Post.

The decision came after a parent complained that her daughter did not make the cut during tryouts.

Not all parents agreed with the new rule, and some spoke out against the policy at a recent school board meeting. But when confronted over the rule, the board threatened to put an end to the cheerleading program altogether rather than go back to requiring standards for admittance.

The school claimed it was being “inclusive” by eliminating past standards. In a statement the board also insisted that its new policy was in the “best interest” of the students.

“In order to facilitate a more inclusive program,” the board’s statement read, “the alignment between the various cheerleading squads would be modified to allow all interested students to be able to participate. This decision was made in the best interest of all students and was made to be as inclusive as possible.”

The school board also claimed that the change was made after “multiple appeals from several parents.”

Not everyone was pleased with the change. Cheerleader Stephanie Krueger was very unhappy with the new policy. “All my hard work has been thrown out the window,” she said during the board meeting.

“I tried my hardest,” Krueger added. “Now everything is going away because of one child who did not make the team, and their parent complained.”

Hanover sophomore Jada Alcontara agreed saying, “I came up here to state that I did not put in 18 months of work to lead up to this moment, just to be told it didn’t matter anymore.”

Board President Sean Sullivan allowed that the new policy may be revisited at a later date.


http://www.breitbart.com/sport...am-parent-complains/

Can't wait for the 5' 100 lb uncoordinated asthmatic demanding to get an equal share of the time at QB.

Hey Krueger, this is socialism at its finest. Maybe you should schedule a walk out?

Once more, we get another reason, in a long list of reasons, why public education needs to go.

These people have no idea the damage they’re doing to these yutes. They don’t understand the concept of working to have something better. If you complain loud enough it can all be yours. I can’t wait to see when they apply for work only to see the position go to a more qualified person. Total meltdown will ensue.

More "Participation Trophy" morons. JSMH...

I absolutely LOVE this commercial!!!

Everyone gets a trophy.

Why didn’t the parents turn that logic on its head and demand to be admitted as new School Board members?

Goose...Gander...

Maybe everyone who tries out makes the football team. And if the kid doesn't make a touchdown, lodge a complaint of discrimination and unfair treatment.

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Why didn’t the parents turn that logic on its head and demand to be admitted as new School Board members?

Goose...Gander...

That is actually brilliant.

Well bless their hearts!

I'm kind of curious about what the original complaint was. Was she just not good enough or was there more to it?

I had a meeting with the athletic director and coach at my son's high school about his hockey tryout. He didn't make the team and was clearly a cut above more than half the team that made it. Even the kids that were sophomore and juniors were scared my son was going to get their spot (JV team and he was a freshman).

We didn't try to get him on the team. I just wanted the coach and director to know that the coach did not watch my son play. He was only watching the kids he knew. He had told my kid, "You don't have a good shot." Meanwhile the varsity and JV goalie stopped zero of his shots during the tryout.

Anyhow, my point is only that maybe there is more to the story. Of course, the changing of the rules is absolutely ridiculous.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I'm kind of curious about what the original complaint was. Was she just not good enough or was there more to it?

I had a meeting with the athletic director and coach at my son's high school about his hockey tryout. He didn't make the team and was clearly a cut above more than half the team that made it. Even the kids that were sophomore and juniors were scared my son was going to get their spot (JV team and he was a freshman).

We didn't try to get him on the team. I just wanted the coach and director to know that the coach did not watch my son play. He was only watching the kids he knew. He had told my kid, "You don't have a good shot." Meanwhile the varsity and JV goalie stopped zero of his shots during the tryout.

Anyhow, my point is only that maybe there is more to the story. Of course, the changing of the rules is absolutely ridiculous.

My son's high school baseball teams were like that. If you weren't on the head coaches' travel ball team, you didn't make the team. And the year a kid with scholarship offer as a junior to UCLA and USD made the varsity team (transferred his senior year from another school) and was on another travel ball team, he bumped another kid and parents raised holy hell about it.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I'm kind of curious about what the original complaint was. Was she just not good enough or was there more to it?

I had a meeting with the athletic director and coach at my son's high school about his hockey tryout. He didn't make the team and was clearly a cut above more than half the team that made it. Even the kids that were sophomore and juniors were scared my son was going to get their spot (JV team and he was a freshman)....

Anyhow, my point is only that maybe there is more to the story. Of course, the changing of the rules is absolutely ridiculous.

My son made the HS soccer team. The coach gave those on the team "lotto tickets" to sell for the coach's minor league soccer team. We kind of told the coach the HS team shouldn't be forced fundraisers for his personal matters. My son was cut from the team.

So all the kids that can't skate make the hockey team, the kids who can't hit a ball make the baseball team, and the kids that can't run 50 yards are now on the cross country team right? All inclusive?

I hope every girl at the school goes out and they have to put 1500 girls in uniform and on the sidelines.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Well bless their hearts!

This!!!!

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:


My son's high school baseball teams were like that. If you weren't on the head coaches' travel ball team, you didn't make the team. And the year a kid with scholarship offer as a junior to UCLA and USD made the varsity team (transferred his senior year from another school) and was on another travel ball team, he bumped another kid and parents raised holy hell about it.

During the entire 5 days of tryouts I kept looking at my ex wife and saying, "did you see that play? Did you see that shot?" etc. about my son. He was kicking ass. She kept saying, "yeah I saw it but the coaches are only looking at the kids with green socks (local team they know everyone on). I told her no worries, the coaches see everything I'm sure. No way they could miss him. Well I was dead wrong and she was spot on.

In the end it worked out. He worked harder and got on a good club team for this upcoming season. He will make the high school team look like they are standing still.