Condoms for football players get cheerleaders benched

[TexasTowelie]

The Wharton High School cheerleaders had nothing to cheer about Friday night.

That's because, according to reports on KHOU.com and Yahoo! News, the squad was forced to sit out the varsity football game after cheerleaders placed condoms inside "spirit bags" for the team.

Some called it a silly teen prank, but Wharton ISD didn't find it funny and punished the cheerleaders. The condoms were placed inside the bags just before the Tigers' homecoming game last week, the reports said.

Wharton ISD said the condoms incident violated the code of student conduct. The cheerleaders got a one-day, in-school suspension and were banned from Friday's game at Bellville, KHOU says.

More at http://www.chron.com/sports/highschool/article/Condoms-for-football-players-get-cheerleaders-4927343.php?cmpid=hpbn .

[font color=green]My brother is living in Wharton and watches high school football religiously. I wonder if he noticed the absence of the cheerleaders?[/font]

[seabeyond]

1. lesson learned. if the guys had done something similar to yhe girls, i would expect the school

To step up. Sit out one game is not harsh.

[Fridays Child]

2. Lighten up, Wharton ISD. It's not like they came to school drunk.

They actually performed a public service. Teachable moment, anyone?

[Eleanors38]

3. Yeah, they coulda let those broncos buck with no stable at all.

[Fridays Child]

4. Yes, there is that, certainly--a point probably lost on the abstinence-only demographic.

I suppose it's just too much to hope that anyone might seize the opportunity to open a dialogue about the nexus of good citizenship and reproductive responsibility, right?

[Downwinder]

5. In light of court decisions,

it makes perfect sense for cheerleaders to supply condoms to the athletes.

[johncoby2]

6. They got screwed!

or will be

Bad joke. They should have put mini bibles in the bags. They would have been put on TV for that also.