She didn't give up her 1st Amendment rights. When not performing as a part of the cheerleadign squad, she was free to say anything she wanted to about the kid. But the school also had the right to remove her from the squad if her exercise of her 1st Amendment rights interfered with her performance on the squad or negatively impacted the school's image. Just as I could fire an employee for making comments on or off the job that reflected negatively on my business - he has the right to make the comments, and I have the right to not have him as an employee. Since the girl did not have the "right" to be a cheerleader - participation in extra-curricular activities is a privilege - she was not denied any of her constitutional rights by limiting the scope of her speech or activities during the time she was performing as a member of the squad.
So, having a rapist on their school's basketball team and insisting his cheerleader victim applaud him is good for their image?
Everything is so sick, twisted, up-side down and inside out today that I often feel like I'm living in a dream, (or nightmare). In previous generations this puke who was convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl would have been kicked out of the school, not just the basketball team. But instead, his VICTIM gets the boot. Like I said, EVERYTHING today is out of whack. The day they took prayer out of school and bannished all public images and expressions of Christianity the Enemy of God smiled, walked into the vacuum and took over. And this is what we're witnessing all around us today, the very opposite of normalcy, goodness and righteousness.
“But two separate courts ruled against her, deciding that a cheerleader freely agrees to act as a “mouthpiece” for a institution and therefore surrenders her constitutional right to free speech.”
She was not an employee but a student at a public school in which the school officials and the courts dealt her a great injustice.