Could she and her family have agreed to stop paying taxes to support the alleged rapist and the cheerleading team? Could she continue to maintain the friendship and camaraderie she’d invested in the other members of the cheerleading team (likely not a small investment)?
If the answer to these, or similar questions, is no, then forcing her to cheer for someone she believes raped her is abhorrent. In a small way, it reminds me of the Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz.
>>Could she and her family have agreed to stop paying taxes to support the alleged rapist and the cheerleading team? Could she continue to maintain the friendship and camaraderie she’d invested in the other members of the cheerleading team (likely not a small investment)?<<
She continued on the cheerleading team. That was her choice. The boy served his adjudicated sentence, so legally he’s OK. Her only option was to quit the team, the friendship and camaraderie with the other members of the cheerleading team would still be there.
Forcing her to cheer for someone she believes raped her is abhorrent, I agree but exactly what did the guy do to her? I don’t feel like going into all the details of sexual intercourse this morning but there’s other acts that are charged as rape these days. Was it one of these? I think so or else he’d still be in prison.
No one forced her to be a cheerleader, so no none was forcing her to cheer for this kid. She could have simply quit the cheer squad, and that would have solved her problem. The problem is she wanted to stay on the squad AND exercise her "right" to decide when to cheer and whom to cheer for. The courts decided that she had the right to quit if she wanted, but not the right to determine how she would perform if she chose to remain on the squad.