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muriel_volestrangler

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9. "they don’t receive either support or direction from its teachers and officials" Is that true?

Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:37 PM

Oct 2012

Are they really just a bunch of girls that happen to be allowed to stand on the field in the way of the undoubtedly official football team with a banner? What if any old bunch of students decided to stand on the field like that - would the football team have to run through their banner too, and the officials/teachers would say "nothing to do with us, you've got to run through it just like you run through the one from that collection of girls who seem to spend a lot of time on the sidelines, just like any student is allowed to do".

I was under the impression that American schools organised cheerleading, treating it as a school activity.

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Freedom From Religion? [View all] rug Oct 2012 OP

The whole premise of the article is misleading. COLGATE4 Oct 2012 #1

^^^THIS^^^ cleanhippie Oct 2012 #2

What is your opinions of fans in the bleachers holding up these banners? rug Oct 2012 #5

Tacky but legal, fans aren't acting as representatives of the school, but as private individuals. Humanist_Activist Oct 2012 #10

I don't see any constitutional COLGATE4 Oct 2012 #11

Any opinion on that is irrelevant. cleanhippie Oct 2012 #15

This is the question I was responding to. rug Oct 2012 #16

I don't think its the place that is in question, it's the participants. cleanhippie Oct 2012 #17

Interesting perspective. I agree with his conclusion that cbayer Oct 2012 #3

You are correct. That has been the position COLGATE4 Oct 2012 #4

And I would support any kind of display that promotes the beliefs or lack of beliefs of cbayer Oct 2012 #7

I'm torn. The banners remind us that God, while indifferent to human suffering and the corruption dimbear Oct 2012 #6

Don't forget the movement of the celestial spheres. rug Oct 2012 #8

But particularly if moving balls up and COLGATE4 Oct 2012 #12

"they don’t receive either support or direction from its teachers and officials" Is that true? muriel_volestrangler Oct 2012 #9

I think you're right. The cheerleaders are all under a coach, a school employee. rug Oct 2012 #14

One can stop reading at "Goading the administrators". Nt. Warren Stupidity Oct 2012 #13