Not EVERYONE is good at EVERYTHING, and you’re not going to help your kids discover their talents and abilities by letting them into every single activity they try out for at a high school level. You’re also going to allow kids to feel entitled to be involved in activities just because they exist, when for most high school clubs (even drama, debate, mathletes, etc.) there is a A LOT of hard work involved.
For now, the New Jersey school board is standing by their unpopular decision, saying, “In order to facilitate a more inclusive program, the alignment between the various cheerleading squads would be modified to allow all interested students to be able to participate. This decision was made in the best interest of all students and was made to be as inclusive as possible.”
I guess we will see how that works out for them, but I’m not a fan of this new policy. Are you?
