Cover news reporter Tang Chen compiled
According to the AMERICAN media The Hill, the North Carolina High School Sports Association made a probation warning to the cheerleaders of a high school. Earlier, after the cheerleaders performed in the middle of the rugby team's "Patriotic Night", they took out the flag with the slogan of the 2020 Trump re-election campaign and took a photo with it. They were then reprimanded by the high school athletic association and the school.
A member of the cheerleaders said she and a friend were carrying the slogan because of the night's theme, saying, "When we think of the United States of America, we think of this slogan." The two partners asked the cheerleaders to pose with the sign and took a few photos. A few days later, when they were called to the principal's office, they realized they might be in trouble.
On the Saturday after the game, the school issued a statement saying, "Stanley County School is aware of last night's incident at the North Stanley High School Football Game." We are currently investigating the matter, but as of this morning, we have determined that this is not an act planned or approved by school staff. ”
Ultimately, the school itself did not punish the girls, but only asked them not to display slogans or patterns with political signs in their daily school activities. Yet the cheerleading team was sentenced to an observation warning for violating north Carolina high school athletic association rules.
According to the British Daily Mail, the official said the team was not punished (because they were still allowed to cheer and cheer in the middle of the game), but the probation was a warning that if the girls showed their political flag again, the authorities made it clear that they would be fined or removed from the cheerleaders.
Incident occurred in high school
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association said in a statement: "The focus of sports should be on our students and sports, not politics."
Cheerleaders told reporters, "I think it's really exaggerated, we never thought about disrupting community activities, and we never thought that this would make cheerleaders stay on campus for inspection." ”
In response, some Trump supporters launched a pro-cheerleading campaign on Facebook to encourage people to participate in Friday's game, "to show schools and the North Carolina High School Athletic Association that freedom of speech is not dead." ”
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