Article 5KJBJ The case of the cursing cheerleader shows how we police profanity | Arwa Mahdawi

The case of the cursing cheerleader shows how we police profanity | Arwa Mahdawi

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The teen was victorious in the supreme court - but would she have been punished in the first place if she were a boy?

It's been a great week for cheerleaders fond of tossing around the occasional F-bomb. On Wednesday the US supreme court ruled that a Pennsylvania public school violated a 14-year-old student's first amendment freedom of speech rights when it suspended her from the cheerleading team because of an expletive-ridden social media post she'd sent from outside school premises.

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