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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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I have a question... well 1st of all, I'm from Canada
And in every tvshow I watch, the cheerleading peoples always go to school in their "cheers outfits or uniform"... I it got me thinking... Do they really go to school, in real life like that? I mean is it like in Glee, "cheerleadeers" (is that a word!!!) wears theur uniform outside pratice and games?
Thank you for educating a canadian fellow LOL
I just asked my DD And she said that at her school they wear their uniforms on days that they are cheering for games. My DD wears her cross country, indoor track, and softball uniforms on game days also. The football teams wear their jerseys on Fridays when they have a game on Friday night or Saturday morning.
My DD has been a cheerleader for two years now, and last year they only wore their cheer uniform on the day of the game. But, this year they were only allowed to wear their cheer issued t-shirts and jeans..no uniforms anymore. So, they do not wear them everyday like Glee makes it appear.
When I was a cheerleader (back in the Stone Age ), we wore our t-shirts the day before games, and our uniforms the day of games. I've always wondered, when I watch Glee, how many uniforms do they have, and when do they wash them???
When I was a cheerleader (back in the Stone Age ), we wore our t-shirts the day before games, and our uniforms the day of games. I've always wondered, when I watch Glee, how many uniforms do they have, and when do they wash them???
LOL That exactly what I was thinking... God, they must do a machine everynight! We had a cheer team in my high school but we had a uniform (private school) so nothing else that the uniform... and we didn't do anything like the cheers we see now... we had pompoms that was it and short short skirt
DD7 just started to do cheerleading this year and she really likes it but here in Québec, it's not the same as in the US. It just started here (we have competiton for 5 years now and it's only for group 16years old and older) so it's really new.
I didn't cheer, but back almost 30 years ago, I dated some football players. They were not allowed to wear anything from their uniforms at any time except during the game.
DD Samantha went to a public school, and on game days the football or basketball players wore: SUITS. Yes, slacks, jacket, tie, button down shirt - it was supposed to make them realize the seriousness of the occasion. Must have worked, as they made it to state and won more times than not in the 5 years she was there.
Other DDs are going to or did attend a private school, and they don't have a football team. They do have soccer, volleyball, and basketball - and a few cheerleaders. No-one wears their uniforms.
I think part of the reasoning for not wearing them is: those are not their own uniforms. the schools buy them, and then the kids "rent" them for the year (I don't know about football, as we have girls).
I went to a VERY football-centric HS, so yes the cheerleaders wore their uniforms on school days when there was a game that night. The football players also wore their jerseys that day. We also had pep-rallies.
That said, I went to exactly 1 football game all 3 years I was in HS. lol
Here uniforms are worn on days when we (the girls, I coach) cheer. My husband's from Canada and it's funny to me that there was no such thing when he was in high school.
My DD was captain of her HS team & they only wore their uniforms on pep-rally days, which was maybe 3 or 4 times per year. When I was in HS, again, only on pep-rally days or if there happened to be a game right after school. The kids could wear their jerseys over their clothes, though. Even though I was in a parochial HS, we had a dress code, no uniform, but the boys had to be in a shirt & tie on game-day. Don't remember about the girls, but they probably had to be dressed up, too.
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lol so TV is liying to us, canadian and all those people from around the world by letting us think that cheerleaders goes to school in their uniform LOL
They wear their uniforms to school for big games I believe and pep rallys. My dd has had to wear her uniform (top at least) of her softball uniform to school for at least the first game of the season. It seems to fizzle out after that.
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they do not wear them everyday like Glee makes it appear.
), we wore our t-shirts the day before games, and our uniforms the day of games. I've always wondered, when I watch Glee, how many uniforms do they have, and when do they wash them???
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