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[SuperFly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6n9A5V4ivg

She was the school cheer coach. It was right before homecoming. The Higley school district has a lot of mormons. A LOT.



Doug Carroll
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 9, 2007 04:14 PM

The Higley Unified School District can't seem to stay out of the headlines.

Less than a week after the district shut down a touring theater production for apparently being lewd and crude, a short video surfaced Friday on You Tube that has resulted in a teacher at Williams Field High School being put on paid administrative leave.

Citing the need for confidentiality in personnel matters, the district would not confirm the suspension of Christina Mallon, the cheerleading coach, who is seen in the video performing a seemingly innocuous cheer at the front of a classroom as students hoot and cheer. Higley schools are on fall break this week, and efforts to reach Mallon were unsuccessful.





The You Tube video, which runs for less than a minute, made it all the way to NBC's Today show Tuesday. A possible explanation for Mallon's stunt is that the new school was focused last week on activities related to "Up and Coming," its version of homecoming at other high schools.

In any event, it has been an interesting 2007 for the district, which serves southeast Gilbert and has been dealing lately with more than the usual growth-related issues. It has had those, too, and homeowners in the district have seen their property-tax bills skyrocket.

A long-running feud between Superintendent Joyce Lutrey and governing board member Kim Anderson has been the backdrop to most board meetings, with Lutrey confronting Anderson during a meeting Aug. 29. A heated contingent of parents turned out for a meeting last month after a three-day failure of the cooling system at Chaparral K-8, a new school bursting at the seams.

Then there have been the censorship stories, first in May with a Higley High senior, Anthony Sciubba, a devout Christian who insisted that God had been edited out of his yearbook profile. The district apologized to Sciubba.

The most recent flap came when a New York theater troupe, presenting a Shakespearean parody Oct. 1 to an audience of 700 sixth- through 12th-graders, was stopped in midshow by Tara Kissane, the district's arts director. Kissane objected to language and gestures used by the troupe that she deemed inappropriate.

The theater company, Windwood Theatricals, still hasn't been compensated by the district, which is considering nonpayment on the basis that it did not receive the show for which it had contracted.

[tzechuk]

Well, that's crazy - what's wrong with the clip?? She's not doing anything outrageous!!!

[renzobenzo1]

[tzechuk]

[Bibbitybop]

IF I ever have kids and live in the USA again, they aren't going to a public school. IF they do, they'll surely be expelled for doing things like dancing, speaking their mind and pointing out the misconceptions of US history lessons.

[dogshed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WP6JDv0hXw&NR=1

This clip says she's a "humanitarian" (sic) teacher.

[Alyallen]

Ahhh America

Sometimes I wonder what in the hell is wrong with my fellow Americans.

That was such a non-issue. Seriously, turn on MTV any time day or night and you see things 60,000 times worse than that. And on top of that, she probably taught that exact routine to the cheerleaders at the school, so it's not like the kids aren't going to see that eventually. Hypersensitive morons

[periwinkle]

[bassexpander]

As an American, I can agree that the nuts from BOTH SIDES of the fence -- Liberal and Conservative -- are running the farm.

It's a wonder anyone wants to be a teacher there anymore. In some areas (like Philly) the students want to kill you. In others, the administrators are out to get you.

I think it looked like a pretty embarrassing thing to do in front of a class, but we have no idea what context this was used in. Maybe just to get kids excited for homecoming.

Sometimes you have to do something goofy to motivate kids and get them to have fun.

[Qinella]

Girl's got some moves.

[periwinkle]

[Qinella]

My school's principal, vice principal, coach/history teacher, and director of discipline did the same thing at a pep rally once. They always did some weird stunts like that before football games.

[SuperFly]

The guy who doesn't want free copies of Harpers & Scientific American wrote:

[newton kabiddles]

so if it's not confirmed that she was placed on leave what is the story?

[SuperFly]

I believe that "administrative leave" and "suspension" are two seperate dealios.