For the last time...the little kid was 10...doubt he was doing this to hit the chicks.
From the article:
Bobby works with coach Jen Brewer at a gym called Becca's Fliptown, something he's been doing since he was about 5. He's been successful, too, winning trophies for gymnastics and cheerleading.
Maybe he just tried out because it was something that he was very good at.
Hey, I'm not particularly crushed that my son isn't a cheerleader in grade school, but I'm not that little boy's parents. If he was good enough, he should have made the squad.
As a teacher, what peeves me is that now all the teachers at the school have to take some BS sensitivity training because of an issue they had nothing to do with.
The male cheerleaders at my school were the toughest kids around. They would swagger down the hallway knocking their classmates to the ground shouting, “Push ‘em back, push ‘em back, push ‘em back harder”. They would ruthlessly beat other kids with their pom poms. Even the teachers gave them their lunch money. The girls would look at no one else, and it was a status symbol for them to wear their boyfriend’s megaphone on their head.