The law should be changed to remove the exemption of “contact sport,” so the participant cheerleaders can sue if injured should someone violate safety rules, which should be part of the law. Yes, cheerleading is in reality a contact sport.
For girls in both high school and college, TWO-THIRDS of all severe sports injuries (from 1982 to 2007) were related to cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. You can read the center’s guidelines to help prevent cheerleading injuries at:
These guidelines are excellent. If Wisonsin cares about its kids — and all other states –why don’t they make safety regulations such as these into law? If not, then don’t allow cheerleading.
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The law should be changed to remove the exemption of “contact sport,” so the participant cheerleaders can sue if injured should someone violate safety rules, which should be part of the law. Yes, cheerleading is in reality a contact sport.
For girls in both high school and college, TWO-THIRDS of all severe sports injuries (from 1982 to 2007) were related to cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. You can read the center’s guidelines to help prevent cheerleading injuries at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/guidelines-to-help-prevent-cheerleading-injuries.html
These guidelines are excellent. If Wisonsin cares about its kids — and all other states –why don’t they make safety regulations such as these into law? If not, then don’t allow cheerleading.