El Modena High School cheerleaders perform during the school's football game with El Dorado High School in Orange, Calif., Friday, March 19, 2021. Three days after the California Department of Public Health quietly banned cheerleading squads from attending sporting events, the agency reversed its decision Friday, bowing to an uproar from parents, coaches and cheerleaders who chanted in protest: “Let us cheer!” (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)
