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Why are the kids the most evil this week?  The third garders, now the cheerleaders.  Everyone who went to a public high school knows what a popular girl is.  They’ve seen them IRL and on tv; in the movies.  They are skinny and outgoing and have long hair.  The other kids know who among them is popular. 

Here’s the cliche everyone knows is true:  popular girls are cheerleaders and they’re also bitches.

This truism was taken to new heights this past week when the video of a clique of cheerleaders beating another girl was released.  This is girl on girl crime at its most pathetic- committed early and fiercely.

These girls knew what they were doing and the act was premeditated.  They wanted to exert their dominance over the young girl, and they taped it so they could show the world what they are capable of.  They wanted to glory fame cred or whatever teens get when a video gets popular on youtube.  This was pretty much a cheerleader snuff film; the girl got a concussion pretty much right away and in the background is heard “we only have 17 more seconds, make it good.”  17 seconds is refering to the amount of time on the video camera; “good” refering to beating her up better.

Again my first reaction is to blame the parents.

But these kids seem sociopathic- contesting and baiting their authority figures, taking pride in the beating and the video of the beating.  What can be done to these kids to make them learn their lesson?  They are met with approval, awe and fear in their peers, the age group they seek acceptance from.  They’re pretty much rewarded.  How long until this gang of cheerleaders gets beat up by the next group seeking to control their geographical area of cheerleaders?  Could this become a violent and brutal quest for cheer dominance? 

The targeted girl is lucky she didn’t die.  What is the school going to do in this case?  How can we stop the flow of youth violence?