Gay-Straight Alliance students sitting in front of a microphone

From left to right, Levi Smithson-Johnston, Bister Stanford, and Kyle Bodda, members of the Sultana High School Gay Straight Alliance, are working with the ACLU to fight what it says is discrimination at the hands of teachers and administrators. Photo by ACLU of Southern California.

Teachers and administrators at Sultana High Schoolhouse in San Bernardino County discriminate against gay students by censoring the gay educatee lodge, making derogatory remarks almost gay people, and imposing gender stereotypes past allegedly forbidding girls from wearing tuxedos to the prom, the American Civil Liberties Marriage of Southern California charged on Monday.

In an eleven-page letter to Hesperia Unified School District Interim Superintendent David McLaughlin, the ACLU and the law firm Nixon Peabody alleged that Sultana High School is a hostile, anti-gay environment where some teachers and administrators make harassing remarks such equally "that's then gay" and "the gays are the existent bullies," while exact and written complaints virtually instructor remarks ofttimes are ignored by administrators.

The ACLU also charged that officials at Sultana Loftier School accept suppressed the speech of the Gay Straight Alliance by censoring its flyers and announcements, rejecting its entrada to talk over homophobia and bullying, and treating the club differently than other clubs.

As for the upcoming April xiii school prom, a school ambassador allegedly informed students that girls were to wear dresses and boys were to habiliment slacks and button-up shirts to prom, or they would not be allowed on the omnibus for the event, according to the ACLU. A number of female GSA members wish to wear tuxedos to prom and a male GSA member would like to wear a tuxedo and heels, the alphabetic character stated.

In a argument posted on the district webpage, McLaughlin chosen the allegations "deeply apropos" and said he will "personally oversee" an examination of the charges.

"While the ACLU letter focuses specifically on the rights of gay and lesbian students, I come across information technology as a moral imperative to reinforce the electric current efforts in place regarding anti-bullying and tolerance throughout the district," McLaughlin wrote.

He connected, "Please exist assured that equally the District and its lawyers examine the specifics of the ACLU letter, I will personally oversee the review of all policies and practices that strive to ensure that all staff and students can attend school in a safe, welcoming and nurturing environment."

The ACLU alphabetic character asked for a response from the district by March 25 to demands that included assuasive students to wear gender-nonconforming attire to the school prom; allowing the Gay Straight Alliance to use its full proper noun, rather than the initials GSA, as well every bit the words "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer" in its announcements; and instructing staff to refrain from making discriminatory comments virtually gay people in the school environment.

Legal activeness confronting the commune is dependent upon the district response to the demands, the ACLU said. The system typically warns agencies of impending litigation to requite them time to accost their concerns.

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