Wickliffe High School cheer coach on administrative leave for handling of cheerleaders alleged insensitive posts
School officials are investigating the way cheer coach Jessica Hopton responded to alleged insensitive comments from two cheerleaders. Author: Jasmine Monroe Updated: 3:37 PM EST March 5, 2021
WICKLIFFE, Ohio 16-year-old Jazmine Rembert is not shy when it comes to standing up for what’s right.
“I’m so sorry, but it’s 2021. We’re not taking any steps forward, we re taking steps back and it s because of people like you,” she said in a 17-second video posted to TikTok.
Those comments she made in the video got her temporarily kicked off the Wickliffe High School competition cheer squad after confronting two of her teammates who allegedly mocked police brutality on social media: One student used homophobic slurs, made fun of a disabled cheerleader and told a Black student to go pick cotton.
Amrit Baveja. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Ronnie Cohen
They felt anxious, depressed, lonely and lost in their devices. Amrit Baveja, 17, listened as other high school students talked last spring in a Zoom room about fallout from the pandemic and remote learning.
The students seemed so desperate to return to school IRL (in real life) that Amrit trusted they would resist their teenage tendencies and follow social-distancing rules and restrictions if they could just attend in-person classes.
Based on that faith, Amrit, a big data and machine learning enthusiast, teamed up with a programming partner, Beck Lorsch, 17, who has released six iOS apps. They spent the summer building an app intended to help their private high schools in Marin County, Calif., contain the spread of covid-19.
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They felt anxious, depressed, lonely and lost in their devices. Amrit Baveja, 17, listened as other high school students talked last spring in a Zoom room about fallout from the pandemic and remote learning.
The students seemed so desperate to return to school IRL (in real life) that Amrit trusted they would resist their teenage tendencies and follow social-distancing rules and restrictions if they could just attend in-person classes.
Based on that faith, Amrit, a big data and machine learning enthusiast, teamed up with a programming partner, Beck Lorsch, 17, who has released six iOS apps. They spent the summer building an app intended to help their private high schools in Marin County, Calif., contain the spread of covid-19.
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Dec. 20, 2020
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They felt anxious, depressed, lonely and lost in their devices. Amrit Baveja, 17, listened as other high school students talked last spring in a Zoom room about fallout from the pandemic and remote learning.
The students seemed so desperate to return to school IRL (in real life) that Amrit trusted they would resist their teenage tendencies and follow social-distancing rules and restrictions if they could just attend in-person classes.
Based on that faith, Amrit, a big data and machine learning enthusiast, teamed up with a programming partner, Beck Lorsch, 17, who has released six iOS apps. They spent the summer building an app intended to help their private high schools in Marin County, Calif., contain the spread of covid-19.