Texas Cheerleaders Terrorize School

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:11pm

Texas Cheerleaders Terrorize School


The "Fab Five" repeatedly skipped class,
insulted instructors, terrorized their coach
and posted sexually suggestive pictures of
themselves on MySpace.

Dubbed the "Fab Five," they acted like they could get away with almost anything and refused to bend to authority. They repeatedly skipped class, insulted their instructors, and terrorized their coach, their fourth coach in just one year.

The Fab Five even posted sexually suggestive pictures of themselves on MySpace, but that still wasn't enough for the school to take their pompoms away.

In an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America," Michaela Ward, the coach that the Fab Five drove out, said the girls were beyond discipline.

"Unfortunately these girls were given power that any teenager would have completely abused. They were untouchable. They were invincible. The rules did not apply to them," Ward said. "There was no accountability. They knew that I had absolutely no power to discipline."

The school finally took action. Now, two questions are being asked: What took so long? And who is to blame?

Some are pointing fingers at the mother of the clique's ringleader, who was also the school's principal.

"This culture developed where the principal's daughter and her friends were above consequences," said attorney Harold Jones, who was hired by the school district to look into complaints about the cheerleaders.

In his report, Jones found the girls' influence at their high school was pervasive. There seemed to be no limits to their shenanigans.

"They took my cell phone and sent dirty text messages to my husband and to another coach," Ward said.

Though Ward was the cheerleading coach, she felt incapable of disciplining the girls.

"Everything I did, I was undermined by the principal and the administration. I was never kept in the loop," she said.

"Right after some risque photos are placed on MySpace in their cheerleader uniforms and they're on probation, it takes a whole week to decide that they won't be kicked off the squad," Jones said.

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Texas Cheerleaders Terrorize School

Updated On: 1/7/07 at 07:11 PM

[MotorTink]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:16pm

Wasn't this the basis of the movie Mean Girls?? j/k

A 13 year old girl I know (she's like my lil sis) is into competitive cheering and I've been to some of her competitions. All I can say is I was appalled at how these girls acted, and how the coaches and parents promoted it!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:18pm

Are cheerleaders the new football/basketball players?

[Parks]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:25pm

...wow.

GO TEXAS!

LOVE LIVING HERE!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:27pm

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Terrorists Girls

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:33pm

I guess I don't see why this is news. I've seen this story all over the damn place. Bitchy, self-entitled cheerleaders aren't particularly a new phenomenon. And do we really want to give these spoiled brats more attention than they already receive?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:41pm

I posted it for Papa.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:44pm

I wasn't really questioning you posting it, PJ, rather why the media is all over this story.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:50pm

Oh, PJ if it was truly for papa you would have had the My Space photos! Why do I have the feeling this is going to turn into a subplot of the TV show Heroes?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:51pm

And they could use my revised title for that particular episode.

Updated On: 1/7/07 at 07:51 PM

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:52pm

This makes me laugh

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:09pm

I saw the original interview on GMA and the story came off really lame. If anything, fire the damned principal, kick the skanks off the squad and start from scratch.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:18pm

heh. i saw this, the other day on ace, i think. fun stuff. i was more interested in becca mann, the louisville cheerleader who left her digital camera at a party. google it, you'll be glad you did.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:23pm

Doesn't this happen at every school?

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:24pm

Like colleen_lee, I don't really understand why this is news to people. It happens in most schools, I know it happens in mine.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:24pm

Aww, were you mocked and beaten up by cheerleaders/football players, FW?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:38pm

Do you guys not remember WILLING TO KILL: THE TEXAS CHEERLEADER STORY? It was a 1992 TV movie based on the true story of a homemaker driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival. Thank gosh nobody was murdered THIS time around.

[aspen]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:39pm

OMFG the United States school system is corrupt?!?! Who knew?

[jimnysf]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:41pm

Why is it that all the weird stories seem to come from either Texas or Florida?

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:48pm

Oh please, 80% of the cheerleaders I know are pompous whores.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:48pm

Must be the Bushes.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:50pm

And where are all the hot male cheerleaders, huh?

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:17pm

Our school had one male cheerleader... except he was the mascot. Forget about the picture thing. Updated On: 1/7/07 at 10:17 PM

[jimnysf]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:20pm

George W Bush was a Cheerleader and he was from Texas.....but he is NOT hot.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:27pm

"Do you guys not remember WILLING TO KILL: THE TEXAS CHEERLEADER STORY?"

Foster, my revised title (above) was a parody of a movie that itself was a spoof of that story -- THE POSITIVELY TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE ALLEGED TEXAS CHEERLEADER-MURDERING MOM. It starred Holly Hunter and it was a riot! Check it out.