I take it you're watching more FNL. I remember thinking during that first season that I was very happy I went to boarding school.

Or, what Consuela said.

What the hell are 'rally girls'?"

What *are* rally girls? t /went to an all-girls' school

We were encouraged to try out as cheerleaders for our "brother" school, to which most girls said, "Are they going to come cheer for us? No? Then thanks, but we'll pass."

We had football boosters, but we had them for all things. Band boosters, sports boosters, etc. Basically just a group of parents that supported whatever group their kids were involved in.

Rally girls are essentially like pep squad - not the "real" cheerleaders, per se, but they essentially do things like bake cookies, make spirit packages for the players, decorate their lockers, etc on game days.

Now that I think of it, since the football players had to walk by the field hockey field to get to the football field, they probably cheered more for us than we ever did for them.

I should say as a follow-up, I always wished that I could have experienced a co-ed high school, at least for a little while. I absolutely loved my school, and if I had daughters I would send them there, but I do feel like I missed out on some important social formative stuff.

t edit And I was vastly unprepared to go from 4 years of all girls to college where my freshman dorm was co-ed. That was a BIG holy crap moment.

I also wished I could have gone to a public school, but that was generally on the days we were herded into Chapel for another long-ass Mass or other Living Your Faith As Women Of The Academy thingie.

Rally girls are essentially like pep squad - not the "real" cheerleaders, per se, but they essentially do things like bake cookies, make spirit packages for the players, decorate their lockers, etc on game days.

I assume there aren't rally boys for the girls' teams?

Well, didn't get to clean up my postage stamp yard, too much rain.

So I'm making a batch of chocolate espresso cookies to take to work on weds.

I never knew of boosters until I was in graduate school (no, not grad school boosters, although that might have helped.) That version is less Buddy Garrity, more rich alumni who pay basquillions for a permit to the special booster parking lot.

At my school, the cheerleaders would decorate the football players' houses on game days. A friend of mine, who had done dance and gymnastics since she was little, joined the cheerleading squad because her guidance counselor told her that her college applications needed to show that she was more involved in school activities. She was probably one of the best athletes on the squad, but they all shunned her because she wouldn't do stuff like decorate football players' houses on game days.