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family and get personalized newsletters.  Is Cheerleading
Inappropriate for Little Girls?  September 17, 2010 © Alamy  We
know it's pretty standard for adult cheerleaders to shake their
booties in tiny skirts and yell cheers that might make Grandma
blush, but is it still acceptable when the cheerleaders are
little girls?   When Michigan mom Jennifer Tesch heard 6-year-
old daughter Kennedy's practicing her new cheer for her squad,
the Wolverines, "Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we
shake our booties from left to right," she was disturbed, and
complained to the general manager, claiming the words were too
risqué.  Tesch was told that the squad had had the same cheer
for years and that "you can either have your daughter sit out or
that's it."  So she took her issue to the head of the
association, who claimed they do not mandate cheers and to take
it up with the general manager. Tesch was getting nowhere. But
it wasn't until the association ins