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Saturday, August 30, 1997
Cheerleaders' skirts too short for school
BURLESON, Texas (AP) -- The tradition of letting Burleson High
School cheerleaders wear their uniforms to school on game day
has ended because the skimpy outfits skirt the new dress code.
The policy requires that the hem of a skirt or shorts must
reach the student's fingertips when her arms are at her side.
To comply with the dress code, the girls must order double-knit
black pants with white stripes to wear to class on game day.
"I'm not against the cheerleaders wearing their uniforms,"
Superintendent Fred Rauschuber said. "What I'm saying is,
we have a rule. It is a board policy and we have to abide by it.
My stance is you can put on a pair of pants."
The girls say the pants are hot, nontraditional and ugly.
"I think they look kind of geeky," freshman Michelle
Holland said. "The design and stuff, they don't really remind
me of cheerleaders."
Her mother, Marla Holland, was a Burleson cheerleader in 1980-81
and the skirt length was no problem.
"When I was a cheerleader that was one of the honors,"
she said. "Back then, no one had a problem with it."
Cheerleader coach Jeanie Gilbert has her own requirements for
the girls, measuring their skirts using a "two-finger"
rule. This means that skirts must be at least two finger-widths,
plus two inches, below the buttocks.
Ann Gabbert, 41, president of a cheerleading booster club,
has asked the school board to consider making an exception for
the girls.
"Why would you not let the cheerleaders wear their uniforms?"
she asked.
But the board members say they held lengthy hearings on the
dress code last year and don't want to discuss it again.
"We really kind of beat this thing up in May and June,"
trustee Ann Rose said. "I just kind of feel like the cheerleaders
and their sponsors should have come then."
Ms. Gilbert said administrators assured her last year that
the policy wouldn't affect the cheerleaders' skirts.
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