[BringItOn]

I am tired of all the Johnson Central slamming. It is a shame that the Sublet girl has her name posted on her everytime you read this thread. It is clear who her mother is and who another mother of a child on the Black Squad that quit the competition squad are, case closed. Some parents are not able to be satisfied with thier kids in a team evironment. Cheerleading is a team activity and no one child should be highlighted. I think the JC squad is as weak as they have been for a long time. The bottom line is you can have tumblers who do a hundred fulls, it does no good if your mounts always fall and one mount has fallen for two years now in most competitons. I will address what is wrong in the next few paragraphs.

The problem is not Mrs. Sturgill. She lays out a good program and works the kids hard. The problem is with kids and parents who are not commited to the competion level. It takes a great deal of practice, conditioning and commitment to compete at the State level in any sport and it is just not here with this group as a whole this year.

In most sports programs at the high school level only the kids that have the abiltity and work ethic to suceed make the team. This is can be a hard lesson, but a fact. JC should not have three cheerleading squads. This rewards a lot of kids and parents who do not want to work, and it distracts from Mrs. Sturgill's time. The parents of the girls that do not make the competion squad, or quit, are always the ones that cause all the problems. My soultion, pick one squad and concentrate all the efforts and time on these kids. Don't most schools do this anyway?

JC has several girls who have the talent to make any team, not only in this region, but on national teams and could participate on the college level. They have chosen to stay with thier friends and school. It is not fair to these kids who have the abiltiy to bring honor to JCHS and themselves, to have to be part of a group of kids and parents who are not commited to the same.