<p>At least any member of any grade here can get into any club if they have the desire or talent. It is surprising that something like a newspaper club would have grade restrictions. Whatever happened to including as many viewpoints as possible?</p>
<p>Yes, it's sad, I know. Plus, if I do make cheerleading I'll probably be on the top because of my weight.</p>
<p>That's exactly what I said, kman1456. The counselor thinks we freshmen aren't ready for the workload, I guess.</p>
<p>You are light? Can you do the backflips and the stunts along with it? That type of cheerleading is the cool type. We are not allowed to do that here because of safety regulations set down by the school, which stinks.</p>
<p>I'm going to conditioning next month to learn how to do that, but I am light. Yes, our school allows those kind of stunts.</p>
<p>I would love to see the pyramids and the triple salchows and the backflips off of a five-story human erection, but the school outlaws it. They won't allow the band flag-twirlers to do it either when they come to the front and dance during the feature. Sadly enough, I did not even notice that they were waving the flags while we were performing until I saw the video of us doing so at a football game last year.</p>
<p>i wanna learn to that too flips too :)</p>
<p>Your school is really strict!</p>
<p>No, it is strict on sports injuries, since it wants to minimize litigation possibilities. In addition, there is an unwritten rule that the whites want cheerleading the way it was done in the 1950s, and that is how it is conducted today. Finally, the band director wants to play things like the Beatles and Presley's Jailhouse Rock, quite sad for a band in 2003. We need to be doing things like Beyonce's "Crazy in Love", Sean Paul's "We Be Burnin'" and other songs of that nature. The only good song that came up before hand was "When I Come Around", but alas we did not play that either.</p>
<p>In my school when we do pep rallies we play mostly Hip Hop, Rap, and R&B. The last pep rally had Beyonce's "Check On It," Dem Franchize Boyz's "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It," and many other songs of that sort. I guess it's because we're an urban school.</p>
<p>OUR SCHOOL IS A WITCH
they say the dates for prep rallies
and that day on that morning they say its canceled and for NO ABSOLUTELY REASON
we are seniors and we didnt get a homing coming game prep rally...hahha lol
and this has been going for 3 years, so now no one even except one</p>
<p>We need your band director; the one who did that song left, and the new one does not want to do anything because he knows that there is a small group of white people that want the band to be the same geeky thing that it has been, playing stuff like the themes from Chronicles of Narnia and The Incredibles. At least next year they might let me plan the show...
Either that or I need to move to your high school and start attending it.
And we are not permitted to have pep rallies because there was too much inter-class violence, so they were cancelled six years ago.</p>
<p>We always have our pep rallies, and they are the best! We also have a homecoming game, but I've never been to one, so I don't know how it is.</p>
<p>Your school is a witch!</p>
<p>White people at my school are very accepting and most listen to Hip Hop, Rap, etc. Most white people in my school don't even know who The Beatles are, so I doubt they want their music being played at our pep rallies.</p>
<p>Well, at least you have them. There have been petitions but the administration has not listened. I think the only way we will infuse rap is to force it and see how it works. Overcoming the whites who are the best players and who are not willing to do anything but play their own music will be difficult, because we need them so the rest of the band can sound good.
Olive_Tree, that is why it helps to go to a lower-middle class school that has some money-the ones below are too poor to afford music and the ones above are too haughty and refined, with the exception of schools down South.</p>
<p>who the heck deosn't know the Beatles?
wow thats sad lol</p>
<p>Anyone who is not frequently in contact with music older than themselves would not know who the Beatles were nor their musical legacy.</p>
<p>Your school sounds very racist. I don't see any problem with playing Rap music as long as they play the clean versions, which is how our school allows it to be played. Maybe you can try that.</p>
<p>^^ are you talking about my school?</p>
<p>I could not imagine living not knowing The Beatles.</p>
<p>I LOVE THEM!</p>