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  • has the school been burned to it's foundations... yet...?

  • I went to this school 2 years ago.. It's not bad and I'm still 12.

  • I'm 12 and we don't have recess but we still get to play doge ball and other fun things

  • what a dumbass principle

  • I am 12 years old, a boy, and does cartwheels practically everyday at school. I feel bad since at my school they encourage you to bd healthy & energetic. My mom would sue the school for this xD

  • I go to this school i its not bad they give us alot of liberty now .

  • @SuperButthead13 Good to know that others will not have to go through what Deirdre experienced...

  • Kids can play basketball and football at lunch, and it's much easier to get hurt playing those sports than doing carthwheels.

  • thts fucked up

  • OMG

  • I like but you do she do that for no reason.your cartwheels are cool

  • You can get hurt doing whatever you want! This girl obviously knows what she's doing. This is not fair, it's total BS.

  • fuck the courts. they protect cops who arrest 5 yr olds having tantrums, and back cartwheel suspensions. whats next? outlawing swingsets and slides? they've already outlawed teeter-totters,monkey bars and merry-go-rounds in many parks and replaced them with pull up bars and signs that say how to do pushups/pullups and squats and sit-ups for kids. WTF??!! When was the last time you remember seeing a kid doing squats and saying "yeah, this is so much fun, I couldn't wait for recess!"

  • I personally like California a lot but the NYC suburbs has better schools. I am glad this garbage never happened to me. I find it cute that this girl can do cartwheels! Seriously, the gymnastics teacher should have a talk with the school and complain. My worst experience with middle school was nothing worse than getting yelled at by my middle school math teacher, Mrs. Erler and once I went on to high school I was happy at Northern Highlands High School.

  • i know this is going to be kinda pointless, but i knew her!! we where really close friends. She left the school a year later to be home schooled or at least thats the rumour, noone ever heard from her, not even me, and she would call me one of her best friends. But that was so long ago i wonder what ever happened to her...i hope she does go all the way to the olympics that really was a dream of hers. I would be so proud <3 lol

  • i almost broke my nose by running into an basketball goal or what the hell it was

    and she gets suspended by doing a cartwheels

  • I think it was wrong for them to tell her not too. But the fact is they did & she continued to disobey & deserved to be suspended for it. Then her father instead of teaching her that you have to follow rule even when you don't like them took her side. Kids have to learn to respect those in charge or they have a hard time in the work place.

  • @antiqueblue Is that what our founders believed in? NO! Rules that have no significant foundation or reason to back them deserve to be challenged. This is not a monarchy where we are obligated to bow down to our leaders. This "rule" was for control purposes not for the good of the girl...which by the way happens to be me. And why shouldn't my dad take my side? I did nothing wrong! I fought against the wrong! "Respect those in charge"? We the people are in charge, not government paid employees!!!

  • What the hell? I do cartwheels all the time at school!

  • @TheMrSunShine22 This incident helped pave the way for athletic freedom for others...

  • Sue them! Sue them with everything they got!

  • ok seriously whats wrong with people

  • that just tells you how americans are stupid! not all of you so dont get angry, but most

  • @kabos88cz ... That statement is extremely ignorant and stupid, and so is the notion that out of a country with about 311,370,721 people, one incident proves that most of them are stupid. There are stupid people all over the world. There are countries where people don't even send their daughters to school or even attack girls for trying to go to school.. Yeah, this situation sucks, but that doesn't mean that Americans are stupid. Cartwheels aren't essential to learning.. This girl will live.

  • fuck school! they make stupid ass rules!!!!!!!!

  • @waluigithecool The Prussian model school system imposed on the United States of America in 1834 has been very successful...

  • @lfaegre anybody else wanna know what this obscure shit means?

  • Supreme Court? I meant even if he does believe that she should be able to do cartwheels and other moves in school he should still tell his child that rules are rules and that they should be followed or else face the concequences.

  • @MyZeebraaGoesRawr Rules shall comport with the Constitution or they are without foundation...

  • I'm not hating on this girl or anything but she's going to the olympics?!?! Sorry but that handstand sucked! I dont do gymnastics but I know that elite gymnast going to the olympics handstands don't look like that..... their bodies are straight, toes pointed, balance perfect....that girl won't be taking home a gold if she does go. Which I doubt she will. Just saying

  • @MyZeebraaGoesRawr, she's TRAINING for the olympics. Can you not hear? Her cartwheels aren't perfect, but for one thing, she's eleven. She's going to improve.

  • @Kari166 Kids TRAINING for the olympics are much better then that. I mean she's eleven and her cartwheels look like that! The fact that she is still doing cartwheels is bad enough. I know 11 year old cheerleaders doing more than that. try looking at the video Hide and seek yourdancechannel. Their 11 and SOO MUCH BETTER!

  • The girl was probably showing off what little things she could do and was impressing her friends. Even if she wasnt she still has to follow rules I mean she cant even listen to stop doing cartwheels what kind of gymnast is she going to be? There are so many rules in gynastics and she cant even listen to a elementary school principal. What makes you think she's going to listen to her coach if he/she tells her to do something she doesnt like. Point blank the girl deserved it. Rules are rules

  • Ok big whoop its a cartwheel I get that BUT rules are rules they told her to stop and she didnt listen. she deserved her punishment. If I was told to stop, guess what I'd stop especially if I knew I was going to get suspended. She got suspended for something so stupid which she could have prevented by just stoping! Recess is like what 20 minutes you're telling me you need 20 minutes to practice your cartwheels for the olympics when most of the time olympic trainees are at the gym everyday (cont)

  • What all you dumb asses don't realize 1)You have to follow the rules. 2) If the kid busted her arm the parents would be suing asking why they let her do it in the first place. Everyone says the school has to take control of these crazy kids and all that BS now when they do, You jump up and down with your own tantrum.

    Principle said stop so fuckin stop. If I got suspended for that and my parents found out I was told to stop, I would of gotten my ass beat and that would be one sucky week.

  • @drdoofenshmirtz78, it's not fair. Why isn't she allowed to do cartwheels? Because she can hurt herself and others? Boo-f*cking-hoo. You can get hurt doing whatever else there is. Why is she not allowed to do what she wants? This girl knows what she's doing, she doesn't go anywhere near other people while doing her cartwheels. You don't know how her parents would react to an injury, don't speak for them.

    Those are your parents, no one cares. Too bad for you. Not every family is like yours.

  • These school admins need to be fired and denied the ability to teach ever in the United States. This is more evedience that "Our" schools have become hi-jacked by "Communist Elites" to whom they think that they are God Almighty Himself. "Parents" of ever student in America needs to attend every board meeting across America and "Demand" these Communistic Educated Elite" submitt to their demands or be forceably ran out of town literally at the point of a gun. Yes, at the point of a gun.

  • @77KLC I could not agree more. But the American people have grown comfortable with the state as their education has been provided by government...

  • I promise to give $12,000 [ the amount I have in a CD account ] to anyone who can give a logical justification for the actions of the evil principal.

  • @clmabry Principall said stop. Enough said.

    If this kid broke her arm then the parents would be suing asking why they let her do it in the first place.

  • @drdoofenshmirtz78

    And how often do kids break their arms from cartwheels? My 2-year-old does cartwheel. Hasn't hurt herself.

  • Thats a round-off anyway. Cart-wheels.. haha! Damn! People are just so power-hungry. Leave that little girl the hell alone! Go find something to do constructive you jealous shits!!!!

  • GODDAMMIT!!!! im 11 and i should be in grade 7 but my mom made me do 6th grade twice >:| i hate elementry school >:|

  • This is stupid,I use to rap in school at lunch and nobody kicked me out..

  • that school is fuckin wrong

  • olympic dreams are everywhere...

  • Idiot dad " this is not America, if a child cannot use her arms and legs......"

    What next, can students start giving teacher's the middle finger as well? It's a school, you go to school to learn, train for the Olympics on your own time or home school her.

  • @alex2405777 She has been homeschooled ever since; It was her own time on property I paid for you idiot...

  • @lfaegre I'm responding to the video and from the time she was in school. Taking a far left position eh? I heard the ACLU is looking for a few good men.

  • @alex2405777 She was an exemplary student and the gulag was not worthy of her. What does Roger Baldwin's advocacy of Communism through his founding of the ACLU have to do with this?

  • @alex2405777 that was a school and not a military academy or prison...Oh wait..it is in usa...where children of 5 are getting arrested and in handcuffs, or tazered, or abused, or getting severe injuries by police, or being suspended for the severe crime of....doing cartwheels.

    There are very few countries anymore with such a hideous lack of freedom and care towards children. At least let them play...

  • @alex2405777 you're clearly an invalid, how is cartwheels the same as verbally abusing someone. the school obviously doesnt want a bad rep for "little girls doing big girl things" americans are slightly fucked. watch borat and u see how americans physically run away from someone who looks slightly jewish or arabic coming near them. you're pigs tbh

  • I went to this for school for 4 years and got the real story. She was doing cartwheels right next to the cars. The principal just feared for her saftey. and supposedly she went and walked right in front of a car while being picked up

  • @Lolipop2717 You got the real story Lollipop? The deplorably dysfunctional Administration did not want to give her ANY area on the grounds to practise until we challenged the proscription. Upon their embarrassment resulting from media coverage, they managed to find an area after all. Go back and check your sources--automobiles were not part of the story but adult ineptitude was...

  • bloody Americans 

  • So thats why people get so fat in America.

  • @ikramofir This is one reason...

  • @ikramofir 1 reason. The other one is all the salt and sugar in food in America. I wish all the government cared about us so this would be 1 less issue in America. You can get hurt playing football worse than doing some cartwheels!!! it dont make any sense

  • @loverofJesus579 Thats wack! :P

  • @ikramofir yes it is....that, and you only need to have ONE P.E. credit in high school instead of having it every year

  • @LoveStoriesInc I dont know what a P.E Credit is?

  • @ikramofir meaning you only need to do P.E. once out of the 4 years of hgih school

  • Oh sure it's unfair. I'm sure the parents would have sued the school had she gotten hurt doing her shit.  They would have sued the school for letting her do cartwheels without the supervision of a qualified person. The school was just protecting itself from liability.

  • how stupid  humans are now?

  • i dont like the rule but at the same time this girl was warned several times and the parents were called. Now, suppose she did get hurt in school and hurt someone else then who is to blame?

  • getting suspended for gymnastics....Really? these people are stupid. i could understand if she got into a huge fight but really, cartwheels. this is so dumb. she should be in the olympics.

  • suspended for cartwheels? WTF!

    Now that's BS

  • thats freaking retarded

  • So they slapped her O=.....with a week-long suspension. |=

  • @Saiyza It sure was fun....

  • i would say a group of kids running around playing basketball would be more dangerous than her doing gymnastics by her self

  • you have got to be freakin kiddin me? Are u serious!?!?!?!? When did California become a police state?

  • that is rediculus i think if she is on her own time such as "lunch" she should be able to play as she wants i mean she is not fighting or using drugs or wepons it is completly harmless unless she does it in a crowd of people. it is a sport and if you do basketball but no school supports gymnastics. you could be hurt in any sport it is life but if she is being responsible and making sure people are not in the way she sould do as she wants

  • Father didn't understand?!? It was against the school rules and his daughter violated the rules after several warnings! What's so freaking hard to understand?!? Dumbasses...

  • WWWWHAT THE FUCK KINDA SHIT IS THIS!? I would get suspended for throwin rocks n shit at other kids or writin cuss letters to frends! Not fuckin KARTWHEELS?? Nobody at all should, except for queers! FUCK THIS DICK SHARK SON OF A BITCH!

  • the principal is from china lol

  • fuck school boards, they think they can overpower parents, if I were to see my superintendant i will beat the fuck out of him.

  • What a crock of shit.

  • I would "flip" anyone a finger if they told me I couldn't do that.

  • the girl is wrong, its the schools say, and BTW everyone, your not even supposed to leave the seats at lunch time in any of the schools i went to, plus cartweels could get her hurt, and you know, the school doesnt want to be sued because a girl wasnt listening and hurt herself doing cartweels.

  • @onemanarmy675 by "lunch" im pretty sure they meant recess which is free time outside. also I know many schools where lunch is eaten outside on the grounds. and about the getting hurt issue, couldn't the same happen to any other sport? ALL sports are dangerous. There are no exceptions. people can get hurt in a water balloon toss

  • America's stupid.........

  • @garrak12 We have been 'educated' by government schools...

    "...if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have viewed it as an act of war."

    ---Reagan Commission on Excellence in Education , 1983

  • @garrak12 no the teachers are

  • @BubbaPuma

    True.....

  • @garrak12 i no

  • @TheCocogirl2

    Yeah.......

  • @garrak12 lets just forget it

  • @garrak12 Fuck you.

  • @azoldtime09

    Ok im confused....why?

  • America is sure becoming a fucking police state and fast!

  • @Se7enBeatleofDoom do you mean state as in condition or state as in 50

  • oh, yeah, she might slip on an ant and snap a femur on the rock hard grass... yeah, can't take that chance, no way... she might land herself in the emergency room for three months, you know... GOD -_-;

  • i wish i could do cartwheels... then i could have a long weekend cheeeeeeeeers

  • @ReasonOfUpdates An Australian school in August, 2008 banned its students from doing cartwheels, somersaults and other gymnastics during recess. In 'A Reprise Down Under,' Cali and Mum, Kylie Buschgens [citing this incident] experienced the very same tyranny in Townsville...

  • I got suspended once for giving someone a hug :(

  • Common sense is a problem in America. There`s barely any. A sense of reason and humanity is abandoned. I don`t see this in Europe or anywhere else. Who runs these schools? Who are these teachers and principals? This is what schools and the whole system are made of in USA? These teachers need to GO! Fired, gone! They are a disease to society! This is what the government is made of as well. These kids are gonna grow up to enslave us and each other in the future. You think the world is bad today?

  • FAIL..........................­....

  • that is ridiculous. american school are such bullshit institutions

  • This seems to be a big issue in american schools, anything that could possibly hurt you is banned

  • @DinnerTimeMishap It also happened in Australia last year in exactly the same way. We thought we were experiencing an episode of deja vu. It shook Australia just as it did here and you can find it on-line or from Deirdre's web site...

  • @DinnerTimeMishap The issue is that if a kid gets hurt on school property, the parents sue the school for "negligence" for not having banned the activity. Which sucks money out of the system that should be used to teach the kids. If they don't ban non-supervised activities that could cause harm, they're opening themselves up to the school not having the resources to educate the other kids. It sucks, but it's the reality. Too many parents would leap at the chance to sue for big bucks.

  • i bet the principal is a jealous fat fuck that gets winded after 1 flight of stair. is this what we've come to, punishing kids for being active and healthy?

  • i go to this school and its ok to do cartwheels

  • @OmgItsCaiity I have heard that the Administration has relented as the result of their intransigence and that is great. We could not be happier that these adults have recognized their arbitrary rule was unfair for children...

  • pfft.... try climbing the school building without any saftey equipment, i never got suspended lol! sucker!! :D

  • "No one worried about a classmate walking into the path of someone's cartwheel; anyone who did would have been arrested for Felony Stupidity"....ROTFLMFAO...OMG, that one brought tears...THANKS

  • @armybeef68 One the nation's finest. Thank you.  And yes, It was AS funny as it WAS serious which is why the story went around the world...

  • a hand stand, and cartwheel!? kids at my school jump over trash cans, and wrap our legs together while swinging as high as we can! it's fun! we're kids! we're supposed to do that! it even gives us the right in the constitution! what happened to freedom of self expression!? america is F*CK'D UP!!!

  • That is so stupid they had the parents had to be mad

  • the school is GAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Retarded!

    For cartwheels? Cartwheels? seriously? That school is retarded

  • @UtahJazzFan04

    It is, I go to this school, rofl :P

  • Hmm... civil disobedience. Sounds good to me. We need more of it. From everyone. Everywhere.

  • @M0US3P0T4TO Stupidity won't likely be remedied any other way...

  • This is worth news?

  • i go to this school and i do cartweels and they dont care even in the classroom when my teacher is on the phone

  • @OmgItsCaiity Great! That was not the case in 2004. I hope Deirdre's episode of civil disobedience makes it possible for gymnastic expression...

  • We have to put a law that doesn't allow schools to suspend kids over really retarded reason, fuck I was suspended from school when I got ladybugs and clipped off there wings (sure cruel but I was 7!).

  • wow so silly!

  • I never knew that, I went to that school and it looks just like that

  • You know why they suspended right.. afraid of lawsuits.. that's how stupid the society has become. IF she does the gymnastics and gets hurt on school property.. suddenly those nice people saying they want gymnastics will suddenly sue saying, "Nobody at the school took safe measures to prevent this."

  • it is unfair.

  • schools suck nowadays. this was stupid. kids did cartwheels and shit when i went to school and they didnt get suspended. charter school? whats that supposed to mean the school is high class or something? looks like a piece of shit to me.

  • Well this school is actually a charter school with a very high api not to mention it's an edison supported school so thel admins must know what theyre doing

  • 'One size fits all' is not a prescription for excellence, punishes individuality and does not qualify as quality in education...

  • wow, a school that tries to destory a kid dream, what a mess up school that is, i dont understand this stupid school at all, i mean come on, she say's she see's other people doing it and dont get told, and she's the only one who get's told, man what retarded school that is.

  • Wow

    stupid school

    stupid kid

    stupid news repoter

    is this what news has been reduced to? Dear god.

  • This is rediculous...

  • she looked like she just got baked at 0:45 - 0:55 .

  • Well I mean she kinda deserved it!

    If she was asked to stop and didnt then she needs to get in trouble! I think it sounds kind of stupid but if the schools says to stop and she dosnt then i guess thats what happens! She cant think she can get away w/ whatever she wants!

  • Plus not trying to be mean but, if she's already a 6th grader i think its a little to late to start training for the olympics! She's not an elite yet, it dosnt look like she's that good either. I mean it takes years to become an olympian she's just starting now! I think she should leave the gymnastics for the gym!

  • @gymnasticsfan14 - I know - it cracks me up that she says she's "training for the Olympics." If she was, she'd be at the Olympic training center in TX, not in a West Covina, CA charter school.

  • how do u know?

  • Something this video fails to mention. This girl was doing cartwheels inside the school hallways and not just during recess. She was asked repeatedly to stop and her refusal to do so was both insolent and nonsensical. She deserved to be suspended.

  • ARE YOU NUTS?!!!! First of all, this little girl has been training since she was 6, so she actually knows what she doing so that no one gets hurt. Second of all, I would rather have her do cartwheels that bring a gun to school!!

  • @CaliforniaGrl88

    Something you failed to mention is that we asked for an area the administration would approve of and we were denied. So the insolence and civil disobedience was necessary and entirely appropriate...

  • fffuuucckkk!

    i go to san jose edison........

    im in the 8th grade and i dont rmbr this

    wat year was this?

  • Aey! Don't say fuk.

    -Keep it clean

  • i would do a cart wheel right into the pricipals FACE! and im usually a nice person so thats saying something!

  • well she got wat she deserved

  • Yes, she was venerated around the world...

  • venerated?

  • The tyranny was translated into foreign languages...

  • lololololololol

  • Soft spot in your character for authoritarianism?

  • I actually agree with this! When I was 11 I was kicked in the face by a boy doing cartwheels in class and I had a nosebleed! GRR! Well, she didn't have to get suspended..

  • i cant belive this its not fair

  • This is stupid . What has the world come to when a 11 year old cant do a simple handstand without being suspended from school. I really hope this girl gets into the olympics just to piss off these people

  • You have a common sense. Thank you...

  • So you can hurt someone doing those flips? What if you have a basketball? It can slip out of your hands and hurt someone if you throw it wrong. I played this game during recess called "suicide", the point was to run to a wall and touch it before someone hits you with a tennis ball if you failed to catch it as it bounces off the wall. We did that for years without a problem.

  • it is not a law not to do that on a skool campus and i bet that the skool has cheerleaders at least they should and she could be on it or have a little area for her to do those things it is not fair for her to have nothing to do at recess but all the other kids do like basket ball they can hit each other or someone gets hurt and falls gets hit in the head kids r meant to make mistakes and learn from them just let her make a mistake and its fine she learns from it its not a big deal shes doing it

  • i go 2 dis school and the food is crappy in the elementary side. the junior high side is better but thats still a skool rule.

  • Peron...I mean Patton, is apparently a recalcitrant recidivist...

  • It doesn't matter how much warning the girl received. It's an idiotic rule, absolutely unfair in a liberal democracy, and the girl was right to ignore it. Find a school without an anti-fun attitude :)

  • This is ridiculous

  • ha shit,i remember when she came to school with her shirt against the princible (or however u spell it) was rad,i miss her,YOU GO GIRL<3 hope all is well.

  • You mean too courageous. And she was rewarded for not listening to any of these imbecilic tyrants. And Deirdre liked the school prior to revealing they weren't worthy of her attendance...

  • I went to that skool. I was in the same grade as her. Trust me they gave her all kinds of warnings. She was just too stupid to listen to any of them. She got one week of suspension which soundz fair to me because our skool had a 0 tolerance policy

    I had no beef with her or n e thing like that and I hated that school as much as the next kid. seriously it was her own damn fault. if you think about it it makes sence. The school in no way wants to deal if anything did hapen. Theyd get blamed.

  • they banned the stuff from school this is why childern are getting fat BS all of it!

  • my principal ENCOURAGES cartwheels and stuff at our school, and we're middle schoolers!

  • that's not fair!

    i do cartweels all the time! we get free time in gym and i do them... (i'm in 8th grade...almost)

    it's like me getting suspended for doing fouettes in the hallway!! i mean it's like WOW. seriously?

  • Lol that school sucks xD We'd do loads of stuff, like climbing huge trees on the field, or sneaking into the sports hall and messing around..

    Worst thing the head did was send us home for the rest of the day for climbing onto the roof xD If you dont smoke/drink or fight or w/e, the teachers dont mind what we do.

  • i do backhandsprings and other stuff at school and the principal watches me

  • This is so stupid, if the others children play there sports we should be able to do our sport Gymanstics

  • i know

    my principal did this???

    wow......

    i see kids at sjea doing cartwheels..

  • is felony stupidity real?

  • That is bull sh*t. I do cartwheels at my school and nobody cares. But i am in 12th grade also

  • that is so dumb! and makes no sense!all of the other kids get to do their sports at recess so cant we do ours!? i tumble all the time at recess and the teachers just watch they dont care.

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