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And here is the second.
I personally am proud that these people have followed through with this mission. I hate that I wasn't there to be a part of it. Was it perfect? Probably not. Can there be improvements for subsequent years? I'm sure. Can it potentially empower the gym owners to stand up to the powers that be because they could someday have an alternative to Worlds? I think so.
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THIS! I say let the kids feel special. I don't know that they really realized just what a ground breaking step this was ... And could become for the industry.
And folks can complain about the "prom" part all they want. Every kid (not just cheerlebrities) walked down that carpet (and yes I posted my kid doing it on Facebook because my mom wanted to see it and I'm super proud of him) and her response was "can he smile ANY bigger?!"
No, he couldn't.
Nor could any other kid that I saw walking in either...and I haven't seen any of them complaining about it. It appeared to me that they all had a great time and felt very special. And I don't see a thing wrong with that.
His response wasn't that he wants to be a cheerlebrity because he doesn't care about that. But he does want his non-cheer friends to "get" that what he does IS special and he's not just some guy waving Pom poms on a sideline for his friends who don't "get" why he's completely unavailable for everything (possibly including his own prom if his school had one yet) from basically NCA month to May. If that makes me some terrible person for tagging him in that Facebook video so he can make that point....so be it. I've been accused of worse.
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