With a focus on personal stories, director Greg Whiteley calls the visual style of his Netflix documentary ‘Cheer’ ‘simultaneously aggressive and poetic.’in defending a Pennsylvania cheerleader’s vulgar Snapchat posts, issuing a ruling that set a new First Amendment standard that expands protections for public-school students’ off-campus speech. Though perhaps it’s not teaching a lesson to students about speech that will extend much further into the adult world.
In other words, contemporary high school cheerleading is a lot like a job. There’s a competitive selection process that pits people against each other, and that process has winners and losers. There’s a schedule. There’s a dress code. There are people in charge who tell everyone where to stand and what to do, and they’re managing a jostling militia of subordinates who need to get along at least enough to complete basic tasks.
To even be considered to join the squad for the next year, the student had already signed a contract as a condition of tryouts, and this sure looked like “negative information regarding cheerleading, cheerleaders, or coaches placed on the internet.” Someone showed the quasi-private posts to the coaches, and they blocked her from joining the squad for the next year, and the school district backed up the coaches’ decision.
Wasn’t even trying out 😅😅
As an old lady that was a cheerleader 45 years ago, I wish girls could see how useless cheerleading is. Study instead. Play a musical instrument.
absolutely! it’s a right!
What about getting cut from JV Soccer?
this is terrible news