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Well, people have been paralyzed from playing football and no one thinks football should be banned.  People get in car wrecks every day and cars aren't being banned (even though they do try to ban certain things that tend to cause car crashes, such as drunk driving).  The point is, no matter what you do, there's some risk involved.   But if you are constantly trying to avoid all risk, then that's not really living.  So no, I don't think cheerleading stunts should be banned.  It looks cool.  They should properly train the cheerleaders before expecting them to do the stunts, but they shouldn't ban the stunts themselves.
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Well said.  :)

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Well, people have been paralyzed from playing football and no one thinks football should be banned.  People get in car wrecks every day and cars aren't being banned (even though they do try to ban certain things that tend to cause car crashes, such as drunk driving).  The point is, no matter what you do, there's some risk involved.   But if you are constantly trying to avoid all risk, then that's not really living.  So no, I don't think cheerleading stunts should be banned.  It looks cool.  They should properly train the cheerleaders before expecting them to do the stunts, but they shouldn't ban the stunts themselves.
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Like CF, I agree.

Don't take life too seriously, no one gets out alive anyway. ;D

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I knew a lot of high school cheerleaders and in addition to being excellent athletes, they were also very intelligent and exhibited great leadership skills, so they most definitely did not fit the "stereotype" :)
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:-* :-*

I broke my wrist while practicing a cheerleading stunt, but it didn't stop me.  If they are trained properly, and the stunts executed correctly, there should be no injuries.  Sure, there can always be accidents, but you can suffer the same injuries falling down stairs.

As far as cheerleaders being "stereotyped", it's the same for any athlete.  Traditionally, cheerleaders are portrayed as ditzy, blonde, skinny, etc.  just as football players are portrayed as dumb, big, and mean.  What people don't understand is that cheerleaders must live up to the same standards as any athlete, they must meet the academic requirements, live by the same set of "rules", etc. AND must be in shape physically.  I have been stereotyped (on this board, in fact :P) as dumb, ditzy, etc. and I just prove them wrong.

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Allegedly, the cheerleading ckirts and they"stereo-type" of the cheerleaders are leaving an impression on girls claiming that they have to make themselves perfect. they push themselves to reach for a goal of perfection, which they will never have. "nobody is perfect".... and that is true. The impression they are getting is that they have to be pretty, popular, and perfect,(as in body shape and that kind of thing), but its not true.  
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I can see where they're coming from, but there are so many other things that also can make a person feel like they have be perfect: dance, music, drama, figure skating...anything, really.  Particularly competitive stuff.  But to get rid of them altogether because of the perfectionism often associated with those activities is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak.  I'm a musician, and I think because of it I've become a bit of a perfectionist and feel like I can never be good enough, but I wouldn't give it up for the world.  I can't imagine what my life would be like without music.   I've just had to realize that if someone thinks I'm good, I have to accept it, rather than beat myself over the head because there was this one tiny little thing that no one noticed that I could have done so much better.  In any feild, if you make your goal excellence, rather than perfection, you won't have that kind of problem.  But if your goal is perfection, you'll always be disappointed.

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"Well, people have been paralyzed from playing football and no one thinks football should be banned."

I think that is very true, and a very good example. But not only that, I also read that they want to ban cheerleading all together. Allegedly, the cheerleading ckirts and they"stereo-type" of the cheerleaders are leaving an impression on girls claiming that they have to make themselves perfect. they push themselves to reach for a goal of perfection, which they will never have. "nobody is perfect".... and that is true. The impression they are getting is that they have to be pretty, popular, and perfect,(as in body shape and that kind of thing), but its not true.  
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I think my schoolboard banned cheerleading years ago since none of the schools in the area have had cheerleaders for some time.