'Mean Girls'

Parents have to be parents.

ohh boohoo, your daughter is getting followed by perverts on the internet. They have to relive this over and over. There is no one to blame but you...the parent... You have a responsibility to raise the children you give birth to. Quit blaming the coach and start moving on and getting yourself and your mentally stunted brats the help you all need.

darn! can't find the photos :(


...errr, because.....that is...a ummmm....FRIEND wanted to see them! yeah, that's the ticket.

Love,

BS

Disappointment on so many levels
These girls are going to graduate high school someday and get put into a real world where half-naked photographs and catty attitudes will only do great harm to them. You can say "kids will be kids" all you want, but these are not 2-year-olds who don't yet understand the consequences of throwing a temper tantrum. These girls may not be able to vote or LEGALLY buy alcohol, but they do have brains and consciences. It is disgusting how they've managed to ignore both for so long and will someday truly regret that.
Sadly, when I graduated from high school a few years back I knew dozens of girls and boys who acted just the same way. And what was really surprising was that their parents did nothing to stem their poor choices. In my Texas town, it was the parents of these rowdy, law-breaking, and overly-sexy teenagers who would buy them alcohol, racy clothing, fast cars, and morning after pills. Handling a teenager can't be easy but a parent has some control. How could their parents have ignored or only laughed at these girls' behavior?
The school also has a great deal of authority over their students. Detention, parent-teacher conferences, notes in the students' disciplinary files. How did that principal expect to steer hundreds of teenagers down the right path when she so openly looked over the cheerleaders' behavior? The teachers all should have reported her to the school board long ago. And what exactly did she get them to write in her letter of recommendation? That the students she leads will have great grades but diminished consciences?

Every level here should have had a better sense of pride (not conceit) for themselves and maybe this could have been avoided.

well, they wanted to be like the glorified cheerleaders that hollywood cranks out for these little kids, and they fit the stereotype perfectly. not suprised by any of this, and honestly, if you are, where have you been?

f*ck em. they will grow up to be nothing but entitled whores that think the world owes them fame/money/respect/power. and the only people they will have to blame (or thank, depending on your point of view) in the end is the horsesh!t parents that reered them. nice job mom, your daughter is a selfish, dependent, immature, b!tch. what a waste, these girls could be so much more. like high paid escorts or something.

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There is so much to be disturbed by in this article: the utter disrespect and contempt of these girls for those in authority; the refusal of the principal/parent to provide any sort of appropriate guidance or discipline; and an assistant high school principal incorrectly using the word "reticence" when he probably meant "reluctance."

It shouldn't be a surprise, but what is a surprise to me is the mother. She let her daughter and her friends continue what they did and it seemed like she didn't give it a second thought seeing as how she let them off the hook for like years. I'm sorry but after reading this, I'd have to say she failed as a mother and a principal.

Im sorry but nobody in school shouldnt be acting like that. i dont give a damn if you are a cheerleader! You just like everyone else in the school. Except you're on a team. Im sorry but these little girls would NOT have been running me like they crazy.

In Texas, life is about football and cheerleading.. why is this story not a surprise to me?

In Texas, it's football and cheerleading.. why is this not a big surprise?

A classic case of lazy parenting. Just give in to the kids. That's the easy way out and it keeps them quiet, for awhile. Until the next tantrum.

Bet these kids and their families go to church on sunday and can "talk the talk."

One of the comments said 'kids will be kids". And this person has the spelling skills of a fourth grader as well.

These girls should have had their asses kicked relentlessly, especially for the way that they undermined the authority of their teachers. They set an example for the other kids. This is the kind of problem that spells out how immature we are as a nation, a reflection of our national 'party' consciousness. The other kids should have just kicked their asses on a daily basis. They were just acting out examples of behavior that they took from 'B' grade movies.

I hope that after their third divorce that these girls might get a clue as to how repellent and ugly they are. Kids can be cruel. It's up to their parents to get that under control or to send them off to some sort of attitude adjustment school if they can't get it together. It's just this type of elitist behavior that is starting to define us as a country not to be respected but abhorred. 'peaceandlove', get a clue. You are just the kind of fool that would let this behavior go by, possibly because that's how you acted. Though it's possible that you are still in high school. Grow up. These babes need to be in a camp of some sort.

This behavior by both the out of control abusive teens and their parents is not an uncommon niche in affluent Dallas suburbs. These nouveau riche parents either 'compete' with their children (plastic surgery, attire, etc..) and/or would rather be their kids' friends. I'm very supportive of my children, however, I'm old-school when it comes to children respecting authority and respecting other children, regardless of age. The apple does not fall far from the tree in most cases, and I see lots of these rotten apples around town.

i think it was tottaly blown out of porption kids well be kids and i know pleanty of ppl that got drunk and high school and skiped class so these girls werent perfect and maybe there parents werent either but it really doesnt need to be this blown up

75,000 and a letter of recommendation. Mother seems a lot like the daughter, no shame at all. And the school board not much better, not to insist on an apology. And her lawyers morals not so high, either. Its ok to be a bully, as long as you have a lawyer.

I sincerely hope that these girls get back all of the karma they bestowed upon others. I must say, no one is going to take their sh*t in college. Someone larger, meaner, and with more power and authority is going to take each and every one of them out, and they completely deserve it.

Yes, I understand they were being teenagers, rebelling against parents and members of authority. So what? They were 17... completely old enough to know what they were doing and the consequences of their actions. This world is full of people who dont know who they are, much less give a crap about who their parents are. Hopefully it will come back to them 10 fold, and they can in turn raise their children to be respectful human beings (that is, if anyone is willing to put up with them and their attitudes).