Awesome Five: Texas Support Scandal

Five senior high school students are known throughout the school for their poor behavior. Girlfriends call themselves the "Fab Five". Their absenteeism and destructive behavior get away with them, because Brooke, one of the "five", the daughter of the director. A mother has no influence on her daughter. She is raising her alone and they have long had a family conflict. At the same time, she turns a blind eye to the tricks of her daughter at school, hoping in this way to get her location.

Emma Carr, a new young geography teacher, comes to school, who, in combination, becomes the coach of the support group . The support group includes all the girls from the "five". Over the past year, they have already changed four coaches. All of them were forced to quit because they could not cope with difficult students. At first, the “five” makes fun of this new coach, then, for a short period, they find a common language, but then again get out of control.

One day the girls will find out that one of their company is dating a guy the other. The traitor is beaten and the Stunning Five becomes the Stunning Four. Another time, friends are fooling around in a sex shop, taking pictures of themselves on the camera, although the entrance for minors is closed in such places. At the same time, girls are dressed in their school cheerleader uniform. This video goes online. The coach explains to them that they cannot put on their uniforms and behave like “whores,” because they disgrace the honor of the team and school. After this conversation, the whole “four” specially begins to go to school, dressing vulgarly. Somehow, they leave classes to drink alcohol in a car in a school parking lot, where a school guard finds them. The school authorities are trying to hush up all these stories. Coach Emma Carr, in turn, tries to establish discipline, but because of this, she loses her job at all.

Local television reports obscene internet videos with local schoolgirls from a support group. Dismissed coach Emma Carr gives an interview where she explains that the girls are not to blame. She blames the school authorities for everything, which, with her connivance, allows students to more and more get out of hand. Due to the plot on television, the scandal goes to a new level. A check arrives at school.

• Jenna Duan - Coach Emma Carr
• Ashley Benson - Brooke Tippit
• Aimee Spring Fortier - Fox Toledo
• Jessica Hip - Jerry Blackburn
• Stephanie Onor - Ashley Sanchez
• Ashlynn Ross - Tabitha Deering
• Tatum O'Neill - Director Lauren Tippit
• Damien Clark - Adam Reeve
• Carissa Capobianco - Cindy Harper
• Hayley Whist - Megan Harper

The film is based on real events. In 2005, Michaela Ward got a job as a geography teacher and cheerleader for a McKinney high school in Texas . She found that there are five cheerleader students in the school, called the Fab Five , who are known for their destructive behavior. They are in every way violating the school schedule, disrupting lessons or skipping them. On Myspace, they posted obscene photos taken at a sex shop or at parties that also drank alcohol. Michaela Ward could not cope with the "five" alone, and the school administration looked at violations through the fingers. The coach was forced to quit in October 2006, despite a good relationship with other students. Ward spoke about the situation in this school of media ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} .

The premiere of the television movie took place on Saturday, August 2, 2008. The tele-rating coefficient of the film amounted to 2.63; at the evening of the premiere, 3,041,547 viewers watched it ^[5] . Linda Stasi of The New York Post gave the film three stars out of four. ^[6] Newsweek said that after the release of the film, the reputation of the school in question was destroyed, although before that it was considered good. The director and his deputy were forced to resign, and some girls from the real "five" were persecuted by "perverts from the Internet" ^[1] . Steve Thompson from Yahoo! praised the film for the message he carries. At the same time, he noted that not everything in the film is based on events at the McKinney school. The episode with the beating of a schoolgirl is taken from another case of the Lakeland incident ^[7] .