NC high school cheerleaders 'on probation' after posing with Trump banner

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Cheerleaders at a North Carolina high school were put on probation after a picture of them with a pro-Trump banner during a football game circulated on social media — and some people aren’t happy about it. “Why in the world would the school board allow this to happen,” one person wrote. “I am sad and very disappointed with this. This is a High School football game, not a political rally. Shame on them.”

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association placed the cheerleading squad at North Stanly High School on probation for the remainder of the season, Stanly County Schools announced Monday. But the NCHSAA “has not defined the terms of the probation,” and the team is expected to continue cheering, the school district said in a release.

The cheerleaders were not punished by the school or district, but officials have asked them not to display the sign again, the district said.

In a photo posted on Facebook Aug. 30, at least seven North Stanly cheerleaders in uniform are seen posing around a banner reading “Trump 2020: Make America Great Again.” The students appear to be on a high school football field with referees in the background.



https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article235145967.html

[Kurt V.]

1. They're impressionable but ugh.

[dustyscamp]

2. Dems should be concerned about kids becoming Magats all across America

[PJMcK]

3. Idiot children inspired by idiot parents

Not much more to say except this:

NOT EVERYONE SHARES YOUR STUPID VIEWS!

By the way, young ladies, try to think for yourselves for once. Look into your futures.

[BigmanPigman]

5. And young men.

There are a few dudes involved too.

[PJMcK]

6. Right you are!

My mistake. I saw the young women but was blinded by my anger.

Thanks for clarifying that point!

Stupidity and Trumpism are not gender specific.

[bluestarone]

8. RIGHT AND

THEY are wearing the RED hats! They probably instigated the whole thing!

[BigmanPigman]

9. I blame their parents' influence.

I taught 6th Grade and my first year was 1996 and we had a mock presidential debate with Clinton vs Dole and all the kids were pro-Dole due to their parents (the school was near a military base so they were GOP families).

[BigmanPigman]

4. I am running out of states to not boycott

for being assholes/GOP supporters.

[njhoneybadger]

7. funny how much white is in the pic

[Maru Kitteh]

10. My VERY racist SIL lives in Stanley. She's lived on her kids disability and welfare for almost 20 yr

She's a grifting, VERY CHRISTIAN, Munchausen by Proxy artist who loves her some Trump because he's going to send all them POC back where they came from.

Not sure how I and her niece work into that fevered formula. Oh well.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I won't say what I think of these stupid little girls.

Other than that they area stupid little girls.

[Dorian Gray]

14. There are boys in the pic too....

[NCLefty]

12. Some People call them "Young Republicans."

Here's a similar story from 2016 where the white school taunted the minority one:

"A suburban high school football rivalry escalated Friday after a Donald Trump-themed pep rally — complete with a sign depicting the border wall he wants to build — triggered allegations of racism."

"Pictures posted to social media show students at Colleyville Heritage High School, an affluent, predominantly white school, posing with Trump-themed signs before a football game against Trinity High in Euless, a more ethnically diverse school where nearly half the students are considered economically disadvantaged."

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2016/09/10/trump-wall-gag-at-high-school-football-pep-rally-draws-cries-of-racism/

[Celerity]

13. that is so fucked up, plus some of those Colleyville student look East Indian

East Indians, can be some of the most virulently racist anti-African-descent rotters on the planet, which is so ironic as white nationalists/white power types would hang them from a lamppost as well if they had the run of the nation.


this is before the fucker Rump was even elected too





A girl who identified herself as a Colleyville Heritage student posted photos on Twitter with the caption, "Colleyville is going to TRUMP Trinity tonight."

Particularly troubling was the sign at the pep rally showing a wall, with the message, "paid for, by Trinity." Some interpreted that as a derogatory comment on Trinity's diverse population and an apparent reference to Trump's insistence that the Mexican people will pay to build his wall.

Rick Hadley, spokesman for the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, declined to comment Saturday on whether administrators approved the signs. He said the pep rally's theme was "Make Colleyville Great Again."