Entries Tagged as ‘Commentary’

February 25, 2007

Cheerleading forgotten?

Commentary

By Jared Kraham | The Warrior Report
After all the basketball games, the STAC cheerleading competitions, the cheers and tears after winning it all or going home empty handed, the sport of cheerleading for the most part has now been forgotten. Especially in this school year of extreme disputes over cheerleading, all involving the “Pudish Precedent” [...]

January 27, 2007

“Standardized” Tests.

Commentary

By Jared Kraham | The Warrior Report
At approximately 12:07 p.m. I began the New York State Mathematics A Regents Exam. I was in the Chenango Valley High School gymnasium with roughly 1/2 of the Class of 2009, looking around to see the expression on some of the faces. Some had the look of boredom, a [...]

January 4, 2007

Final score, 11-10…in basketball?

BASKETBALL UPDATE…
FRIDAY NIGHT: CHENANGO VALLEY VS. OWEGO AT HOME
Commentary:

By Jared Kraham | The Warrior Report
“…and the final score in this one is 11-10, talk about one heck of a game…”
Yeah, it did happen. On February 21, 1964 two teams played a high school basketball game against one another that were such rivals, they made the [...]

November 24, 2006

Cheerleading “debacle”

By Jared Kraham | The Warrior Report

In Friday’s Press & Sun Bulletin, I was reading the Opinion page and found that Chenango Valley Senior Seth Mohney had written a letter to the editor about the Civil Rights Office’s cheerleading decision:
“When are people at the Civil Rights Office going to realize that some things are [...]

November 23, 2006

Call in the riot police

Commentary
By Ed Backlund | The Warrior Report
I was just levied my first Warrior Report assignment - to shed some light on my personal views regarding the STAC Cheerleading decision. (”What’s the problem that needs to be fixed?” ;) My initial reaction to the Office of Civil Rights’s decision was one of surprise. “If it was working [...]