If you’re going to pull the cheerleading squad off the field, you should at least have an adult reason to do so.
What these girls did was a harmless prank. It wasn’t offensive in the slightest, and it would take a pinhead to make a mountain out of this molehill.
If the school officials had a problem with it, they would have far ahead of the game to give the girls a few hours of detention the following week, and not make a fool of themselves at a public event.
The girls objected to being kicked out of the game. And if you were being kicked out of a game unfairly, I think you might have objected as well.
The comments below the video are pretty interesting. One person says she was in the crowd that night and “Not only that, but many of us witnessed their complete disrespect for their authorities including cussing and inappropriate sign language.” Evidently they got suspended more for their behavor after the cheer than the cheer itself. And if they swore at the administrators and flipped them off, then I tend to side with the school.
Actually, a threat of two hours' worth of detention accompanied the first request for the cheerleaders to leave.
The punishment escalated because the cheerleaders kept ignoring further requests. I can well imagine the teenagers' we'll-show-them attitudes.