Do other parents really complain?

[Wendy31]

I was a cheerleader all through school (from 5th through 12th grade), & we always wore our uniforms on game days.

For the most part, our cheerleading skirts were within a couple of inches of the school's guidelines though. (We wore "bloomers" or athletic shorts under our skirts.)

Our school didn't have football (small, private school), but the basketball players & soccer players had to wear dress shirts & ties on game days.

I was also a volleyball player, & we just dressed normally on game days.

 

[tvguy]

the uniforms do not meet the dress code at most schools, so they are NOT acceptable to wear during school hours

Alot of arents at our school complained and they were not allowed to wear them durign the day; now they are allowed again;

personally, i think cheerleaders need to wear skirts down to their ankles, but hey, that just my opinion

My kids went to Catholic High School. Uniforms were not only allowed, they were required to be worn on game days. Every school club had it's own logo shirts, and along with shirts with the school logo on them, were approved by the dress code.

 

[DizBelle]

Way back in HS when I was a cheerleader, I always wondered why my cheer uniform was ok but this other skirt I had which was longer was not.

Why can't they wear another uniform on game day - like a track suit? Something that still sets them apart - which is the point isn't it?

 

[jen0610]

My daughter was a cheerleader in high school and currently coaches JV cheer. In her school, cheerleaders never wore their uniforms during the school day. Instead, on game day they wore their warmup suits, their cheerleading t shirts, etc.

Most of the teams around here do this, once it gets to cold for short skirts. But during those months when it is warm enough, none of their skirts are super short to begin with. Most of their uniforms come with 2 skirts. One is short and they use that at competition, then a longer one that they wear at school and football and basketball games. They have a couple of mock turtleneck shirts that they would wear under their vest like in the picture.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Most of the teams around here do this, once it gets to cold for short skirts. But during those months when it is warm enough, none of their skirts are super short to begin with. Most of their uniforms come with 2 skirts. One is short and they use that at competition, then a longer one that they wear at school and football and basketball games. They have a couple of mock turtleneck shirts that they would wear under their vest like in the picture.

I really hope that's the "short" skirt and not the "longer one."

 

[HannaBelle]

I think cheerleaders, athletes etc should be allowed to wear their uniforms on performance days. To ban them and state they are vulgar is wow, extreme especially since they represent the school at the event in the uniforms.

So swimmers can wear their swimsuits?

Volleyball players their short shorts?

Wrestlers and gymnastics their leotards?



Every team in our ISD has warm-ups as part of their issued uniforms and they meet the dress code. Have a skirt that meets dress code...wear a under armour top that "covers" their arms. Silly I know, but I firmly believe that either you enforce your dress code or you don't.

On second thought, I want to see the drama department dressed in character on performance days!

 

[Lorelei Lee]

this is my daughter on varsity cheer. the top of the uniform is a vest which was usually worn over the white turtleneck, but could be worn on its own. They wore "lollies" under the skirt.




the team she coaches, at the same high school, is still wearing a variation on this uniform.

the skirts do not meet the school dress code.

 

[Buckalew11]

Most of the teams around here do this, once it gets to cold for short skirts. But during those months when it is warm enough, none of their skirts are super short to begin with. Most of their uniforms come with 2 skirts. One is short and they use that at competition, then a longer one that they wear at school and football and basketball games. They have a couple of mock turtleneck shirts that they would wear under their vest like in the picture.

That's a darn short skirt--too short to wear into class, imo. As I sit here and respond, I see her name on my screen. I think you should delete the photo just because there are creepy old men lurking here.

 

[sam_gordon]

That's a darn short skirt--too short to wear into class, imo. As I sit here and respond, I see her name on my screen. I think you should delete the photo just because there are creepy old men lurking here.

That's a photo from the news story about the "controversy". IIRC, that girl is willing to go to class wearing that skirt.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

When I was a cheerleader, we intentionally chose uniforms that would be long enough to fit the dress code. Then, that year, some person complained saying that cheerleaders wearing their uniforms all day was a form of - get this - paying the athletes by providing them school clothing. No more uniforms worn during the day for the cheerleader. The football team was also no longer allowed to wear their jerseys to school.

 

[Lorelei Lee]

That's a darn short skirt--too short to wear into class, imo. As I sit here and respond, I see her name on my screen. I think you should delete the photo just because there are creepy old men lurking here.

Of course, there's a reason i picked a photo of my daughter where her face is obscured, even though that photo is several years old.

 

[aprilgail2]

Most of the teams around here do this, once it gets to cold for short skirts. But during those months when it is warm enough, none of their skirts are super short to begin with. Most of their uniforms come with 2 skirts. One is short and they use that at competition, then a longer one that they wear at school and football and basketball games. They have a couple of mock turtleneck shirts that they would wear under their vest like in the picture.

Wow that is so short its inappropriate in OR out of school!

 

[Lorelei Lee]

Wow that is so short its inappropriate in OR out of school!

See how the uniform is wrinkled? She probably needs to go up a size, it's far too tight. But if she's doing competition, the skirt needs to be short so she can get a good range of motion.

 

[bdcp]

I was a jv and varsity cheerleader 35+ years ago in HS. We wore short skirts and no one thought anything of it. We also wore what was basically a leotard bottom half underneath, either red or blue depending on which skirt we wore. We had several uniforms. Short cheerleading skirts are nothing new. I'm not sure why people all of a sudden have issues with it. We loved wearing our uniforms to school every Friday during football season and other days for other sports (basketball and wrestling). Pom Pom girls also wore theirs the same days we did. The guys wore shirts and ties on game days or Friday if it was a Saturday game.

 

[U2_rocks!]

See how the uniform is wrinkled? She probably needs to go up a size, it's far too tight. But if she's doing competition, the skirt needs to be short so she can get a good range of motion.

And she would have some kind of stretchy shorts on underneath - it wouldn't just be her regular panties.

I have a competitive gymnast - they wear much less for competitions, and they are skin tight and revealing. Swimmers too, though they are in the water for a large part of the time that they are in front of spectators.

I guess the point is not how revealing the uniform is while competing/performing the sport, but whether that uniform is really appropriate to wear elsewhere in public. When DD leaves practice or a meet, she always has shorts or track pants over her leo. It would not be appropriate to walk around stores etc. in just the leo.

 

[aprilgail2]

I was a jv and varsity cheerleader 36 years ago in HS. We wore short skirts and no one thought anything of it. We also wore what was basically a leotard bottom half underneath, either red or blue depending on which skirt we wore. We had several uniforms. Short cheerleading skirts are nothing new. I'm not sure why people all of a sudden have issues with it. We loved wearing our uniforms to school every Friday during football season and other days for other sports (basketball and wrestling). Pom Pom girls also wore theirs the same days we did. The guys wore shirts and ties on game days or Friday if it was a Saturday game.

But why should they be allowed to wear skirts that are CLEARLY against any dress code but the kid that comes in to school not on a team with a short skirt gets sent home? If EVERY kid can't wear indecent skirts to school then no kid should be able to.

 

[mfd25wife]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/florida-schools-banning-cheerleaders-wearing-uniforms-during-school-155324614.html

Just saw this, do other non-cheerleader parents really complain?

I'm just continuing to shake my head.

I think cheerleaders, athletes etc should be allowed to wear their uniforms on performance days. To ban them and state they are vulgar is wow, extreme especially since they represent the school at the event in the uniforms.

My dd cheered all through school. They wore squad warm ups on game days so they all were wearing the same thing and had their hair fixed, but still stayed within dress code. When they were younger and wore the flyaway skirts, they had to wear leggings under them during school.

 

[bdcp]

But why should they be allowed to wear skirts that are CLEARLY against any dress code but the kid that comes in to school not on a team with a short skirt gets sent home? If EVERY kid can't wear indecent skirts to school then no kid should be able to.

I personally think dress codes have gone too far. We didn't have the restrictions that kids do today and yet we didn't have the issues either. Sorry, but all the issues kids have now have more to do with lack of discipline at home than school itself.

Cheerleader uniforms are not "indecent". Really? Is this the Victorian age? I'm pretty darn conservative, but I think is going too far. School spirit binds kids together and makes them a "team". Eroding these traditions doesn't. And, yes, it's a tradition. My mom was a twirler and her friends were cheerleaders in the 1950's. They wore skirts below the knee because that was the style. But, they still dressed in a way that their parents generation didn't approve of. It's called being a teenager.

I think some parents need to worry more about their own children and quit telling them how "perfect" they are and teach them respect for authority. That would go a long way towards fixing the issues in our schools. Not wearing cheerleading uniforms won't.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

But why should they be allowed to wear skirts that are CLEARLY against any dress code but the kid that comes in to school not on a team with a short skirt gets sent home? If EVERY kid can't wear indecent skirts to school then no kid should be able to.

For the same reason that these girls miss class to set up for a pep rally or to catch the bus to go to the game?

Every kid is free to try out for the squad. If a cheerleader wears a skirt that doesn't fit the dress code that isn't part of her uniform, she will be sent home.

 

[FayeW]

You mean that's a real thing, wearing a cheer uniform all day at school? I thought that was just a some kind of joke on Glee. Are they expecting a football game to break out in the halls between classes and they have to be ready to cheer at a moment's notice?

They should be wearing regular school clothes during the day and changing into the uniforms at game time, just like the players.