Why Don't We Get What We Work For?

All of my time lately has been spent with or at dance team, so it’s all I’m thinking about. Over the past couple of days I was talking to my friends, Amanda, about how no one really considers dance team as a sport. Amanda plays basketball and we were comparing the two sports. Dance team has more practices for longer times, and we hold practices all year round, we also qualify for state every year and we bring home many awards, we do many community service projects as a team. Even after all of this we still have the “bad name”. A lot of people think of the girl on dance team as ‘mean drunks’ who are ‘big sluts’. While this may have been true 4 years ago now it’s a stereotype that is completely untrue and I don’t want associated with my name. As a team we are required to give off a good name for dance team. We have to have above a 3.7 for an overall GPA or else we have to have private tutors, not to mention the extra running we have to do at practice if it ever drops below that. After all we strive for we get nothing in return. Just before state we wanted thirty minutes on one of the gym floors to get a feel for a different floor, we ever go tit because apparently that was too much to ask to share. While I understand that basketball can’t really practice anywhere else because they need the nets we can’t really practice in the hall because we need more room to dance. When Amanda and I were talking she asked me where the dance team girls change because we don’t have a locker room, I explained that we get to change in the bathroom when there’s enough room. So all the other sports get the gym and a locker room the dance team is stuck with a hallway and bathroom.