Cheerleading a Sport? September 29, 2010 - 7:29 AM | by: Maryam Sepehri After a Federal judge ruled that cheerleading is "too underdeveloped and disorganized to be considered a sport," some colleges started developing different models of competitive cheer in the hopes of reaching sport status under the Board of Education’s title IX requirements. Title IX is a gender equity law passed in the 70s to create equal gender opportunities in college sports. Two organizations have come to the plate. The National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association or NCATA and USA Cheer are both launching initiatives to present their new cheer derived sport to the NCAA and to eventually be considered an "emerging sport."
Have you ever been told not to judge something or someone unless you’ve been in that spot or their position? Many people believe cheerleading is not a sport. You cannot judge something if you have never done it or experienced it. I am a cheerleader myself and I believe with cheerleading you don’t know how tough it is until you actually do it. People always judge and make fun of cheerleaders saying it’s not a real sport but cheerleaders practice just as hard as any other sport, go to competitions and compete to be the best and win number one.
The Stephanie Hess The lights are dim, there is only a minute left in the game. The team is exhausted, the fans are on the edge of their seats, but there is still hope. The team’s motivation, the sideline cheerleaders, are chanting their hearts out for their team to win. They are a dedicated group of young women who give all to their sport of cheerleading, a sport that traditionally supports players of other sports. Cheerleading, however, which is now considered a mostly female activity, was actually begun by men.
Surely, gender is not the main factor to decide that who can do good job in military because women can be a good sodier in some duties. Besides, women should be allowed into combat because of the following reasons: women can do good at leadership position, increasing more jobs for women today and women can do some specific jobs that male can not complete. First of all, women can do good at leadership position. In the past decades, women did not allowed to join in high positions such as: CEO, boss, manager or they could not allowed to run for president because women are emotional. In addition, people thought that women are too sensitive when they face to problems so they often solve the problems by their heart than their mind.
They didn’t know if she was a male or female, therefore, they decided to do the gender verification on her. Another reason why they did the test on her was because she won the “Women’s 800m Gold Metal” beating everyone by 2 seconds. “South African athletics chiefs furiously denied the claims and stated Semenya was definitely female. Molatelo Malehopo, general manager of Athletics South Africa, said: 'She is a female. We are completely sure about that and we wouldn't have entered her into the female competition if we had any doubts.
Their superiors were not allowed to ask them if they were gay, and they were not allowed to admit it. In 2010 this was repealed. 4 Among the GLBT community, there is some controversy as to whether it should be called GLBT or LGBT. Some say that the “L” should come first because it reinforces the advances in women’s rights. Some say it doesn’t matter.
This type of cheerleading involves a group of individuals that help encourage crowd involvement and also help lead organized chants. These individuals mostly cheer on the sidelines at football games and other sporting events, but tend to not participate in tumbling and stunting like the other area of cheerleading. The second form of cheerleading is All Star cheerleading and which is normally considered the more athletic form of cheerleading. All Star cheerleading is not associated with a school, but is ran out of a separate gym that has no association with where a child attends school. All Star cheerleading
Schools should save their money on those drug tests and actually test for something that is performance-enhancing and that is also hurting these young athletes. If that was the case there would be no steroid use among any high school football players and this would also keep from altering young athletes’ bodies. In some cases it would also keep from death of our young athletes today. By not testing for steroids in high school sports, we are not only letting kids think its ok, we are also altering their bodies for a small term fix. The use of steroids in high school is a problem that can be ended by drug screening, and also if coaches would care about their athletes, young lives are even being lost because people are ignoring the
Each day, 100,000 students bring a gun to school, and another 160,000 students cut class because they fear physical harm (National Education Association). Those numbers may seem alarming, and so it is understandable as to why searches would be conducted to try and reduce these numbers. Also the controversy of whether a student’s fourth amendment right is being violated leans toward the administrator’s side. Schools do not need a warrant to be able to search lockers since the lockers technically belong to the school, and as long as there is reasonable suspicion, the searches are legal (Surveillance in Schools) (Constitutional Conflicts). Whether random searching is legal or not, it does not change the fact that students still feel violated of their privacy
Penn State lawyers said, “the Court held that Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admission policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, thereby calling into question the validity of single-sex public education opportunities. Since this decision, the Court has not ruled on the constitutionality of single-sex public education in the elementary and secondary context. Many school districts, even while acknowledging that they are not entirely certain that single-sex schools and classes are legal.” The people who allowed single-sex education in their school districts are beginning to doubt the decision because of the possibility of legal difficulties. Yes, single-sex education has been around for hundreds of years, but that doesn’t mean that single-sex schooling is necessarily legal. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that school districts have far less to worry in the legal about if coeducation was