Talia Shifron
To You editor, Fused
At Casa Robles High School in Orangevale California, cheerleading coach Carlie Christine was fired after some parents and students turned in a picture of her posing nude for Playboy Magazine. The students were angry that they did not make the cheerleading squad and had their parents turn in this photo to the school principal. The school administration decided that this showed Christine was a bad role model for students, and it was inappropriate for her to continue as the cheerleading coach.
While many people may not have agreed with Christine posing in this magazine, her job definitely should not have been taken away because of this. Every person is guaranteed freedom of expression by the First Amendment, and Christine should not be excluded from this right.
Just because these students may have looked up to Christine as a coach does not mean that they would have followed in her footsteps and started posing for this magazine themselves. Parents were concerned that their children had seen these pictures, but the reality is that if they felt that Christine posing for this magazine was inappropriate then they should have talked to her about it, and not gone to the school administration. Christine did absolutely nothing wrong and it is completely inappropriate that she was fired for this. If anything, the school system should be sued for taking away her valuable rights to freedom of expression.
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