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Related: About this forumWisconsin school ends cheerleading awards for body parts
Source: Associated Press
Wisconsin school ends cheerleading awards for body parts
February 20, 2019
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin high school is ending cheerleading awards given annually to girls with the largest breasts or buttocks dubbed Big Booty and Big Boobie after district officials received repeated complaints from parents and a former coach.
Coaches at Tremper High School in the Kenosha Unified School District give out awards each year recognizing the most improved or hardest working cheerleaders, but they have also given what they called gag awards. Those awards also included one for String Bean the thinnest team member.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin said emails and other documents it obtained during a yearlong investigation showed the awards were handed out for at least five years at a banquet attended by about 100 people, including coaches, family members and friends of students.
Im disgusted with the cheer coaches and with the Kenosha parents that sat there and said and did nothing, former track coach Patti Hupp told the Kenosha News . Hupp emailed Tremper principal Steve Knecht last year to express her concerns after a parent notified her of the awards.
I dont think it takes much to see that this is extremely degrading to women, Hupp said in the email to Knecht.
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February 20, 2019
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin high school is ending cheerleading awards given annually to girls with the largest breasts or buttocks dubbed Big Booty and Big Boobie after district officials received repeated complaints from parents and a former coach.
Coaches at Tremper High School in the Kenosha Unified School District give out awards each year recognizing the most improved or hardest working cheerleaders, but they have also given what they called gag awards. Those awards also included one for String Bean the thinnest team member.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin said emails and other documents it obtained during a yearlong investigation showed the awards were handed out for at least five years at a banquet attended by about 100 people, including coaches, family members and friends of students.
Im disgusted with the cheer coaches and with the Kenosha parents that sat there and said and did nothing, former track coach Patti Hupp told the Kenosha News . Hupp emailed Tremper principal Steve Knecht last year to express her concerns after a parent notified her of the awards.
I dont think it takes much to see that this is extremely degrading to women, Hupp said in the email to Knecht.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/127ab1b7aeff4c7f86827fd023351eb6
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Wisconsin school ends cheerleading awards for body parts (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
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old guy
(3,292 posts)1. There were parents and teachers who knew of this and did nothing!
What is wrong with people?
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)2. Duh
pwb
(12,199 posts)3. They did it for the last five years ????? Gee who ran Wisconsin then?
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