The 17-year old said he was kicked-off of his high school cheerleading squad after he was suspended for kissing another boy, after the kiss was caught on a school surveillance camera. After we first reported the story Alice ISD said it would review the …
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Texas ex-cheerleader’s legal fight for refusing to cheer for rape suspect gets … – Washington Post
By AP, SILSBEE, Texas — Rakheem Bolton approached the free-throw line as his school’s cheerleading squad rooted for him to hit the shot during a 2009 playoff game. One cheerleader stepped away from the group, folded her arms and stood in silence, …
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Texas ex-cheerleader’s legal fight for refusing to cheer for rape suspect gets … – Washington Post
The girl, who was suspended from the cheerleading squad but reinstated two weeks later, filed a federal lawsuit in May 2009, claiming the school district violated her First Amendment rights as well as her rights to liberty, property and equal …
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Court Orders Cheerleader to Pay School $45k for Refusing to Cheer Rapist – Gather.com
by Franz Lopez
In the initial case, a cheerleader (identified in records only as HS) claims the school violated her rights to free speech by ejecting her from the cheerleading squad, for refusing to cheer one player she says had raped her, four months earlier. …
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Cheerleader,11, ousted for refusing to ‘shake booty’
today.msnbc.msn.com www.youtube.com An 11-year-old girl who was thrown off a Nebraska elementary school’s junior cheerleading squad because she refused to “shake her booty” says that while the gyrations may be a crowd-pleaser, she doesn’t think young girls should be moving their bodies like that. “It just felt wrong. I don’t know why,” Faylene Frampton said Wednesday during an interview on TODAY with Tamron Hall. “It just didn’t feel it was a cheer that was appropriate for kids of my age or younger.” The sixth-grader from Ashland, Neb., says she complained to cheerleading coach Tina Harris in the past that she did not feel comfortable with the cheer, which is number 33 in the squad’s 44-cheer routine. The cheer calls upon Faylene and younger members of the squad — including some in the second grade — to turn their backs to the bleachers, bend over, and move their pelvises from side to side