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UPDATE: Parents wanted to speak on behalf of ousted cheerleading coach – TribLocal

However, the position of head cheerleading coach at Libertyville High School was described as a “revolving door” by Amber Webb, whose 17-year-old son, Miles Webb, has been on the cheerleading squad since 2009. Deacon was hired in November of 2009 to …
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Cheerleader,11, ousted for refusing to ‘shake booty’

today.msnbc.msn.com www.youtube.com An 11-year-old girl who was thrown off a Nebraska elementary school’s junior cheerleading squad because she refused to “shake her booty” says that while the gyrations may be a crowd-pleaser, she doesn’t think young girls should be moving their bodies like that. “It just felt wrong. I don’t know why,” Faylene Frampton said Wednesday during an interview on TODAY with Tamron Hall. “It just didn’t feel it was a cheer that was appropriate for kids of my age or younger.” The sixth-grader from Ashland, Neb., says she complained to cheerleading coach Tina Harris in the past that she did not feel comfortable with the cheer, which is number 33 in the squad’s 44-cheer routine. The cheer calls upon Faylene and younger members of the squad — including some in the second grade — to turn their backs to the bleachers, bend over, and move their pelvises from side to side