Pete Moye’
Sports Button
Cheerleaders have to practice, travel with the football team, and have to wear a very pricey uniform like the rest of the Cerritos College athletic teams.
Since that’s the case, cheerleaders deserve to get every ounce of privileges as any other student athlete gets at any college campus.
Athletes at college campuses get many privileges. For example, priority enrollment over students on campus.
Also, actual student athletes don’t have to pay much, if any, for the equipment that the school provides to them.
While Cheerleaders are not given uniforms, they either have to pay out of their own pocket or fundraise.
Even though cheerleaders are athletes, they don’t get nearly as much privileges as everyone else does.
In fact, being a college cheerleader may be more difficult a task then being tossed 15-feet in the air.
Like other athletes, cheerleaders have to be a full-time student, but sadly, they don’t get the same opportunity to get 12 or more units.
The team is at every football game, but they do not get priority enrollment unless they have been at the school long enough.
The only significant privilege that cheerleaders gets is that they get a free ride to the away games that they are cheering at and that isn’t even a big deal.
Is this fair for that the cheerleaders don’t get the same chances that every other team gets?
No, it is absolutely not fair.
It is only fair to give each and every team on campus the same privileges, because it’s only right to include everyone in the equation; especially since the ones who are left out are the ones who have arguably the most school spirit of all students.
Leaving a team like cheerleading out of the equation is like leaving the peanut butter out of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; it just does not make sense.
If the school is not going to give the privileges to one sports team, then they should not give any team on campus privileges.
No matter how you look at this situation, it will never seem like a fair deal.
Someone needs to step up and give the rights to the team, even if there is a budget issue that all schools face.
