Texas Schools Block GSA By Banning All Clubs

[Modern School]

Flour Bluff Intermediate School District, in Corpus Crispi, Texas, has shut down all extracurricular clubs in order to avoid allowing a Gay-Straight Alliance on one of the their campuses. The move comes in the aftermath of a veto by the school principal of a request by senior Bianca "Nikki" Peet's to start a GSA. In support of Peet, Texas A&M’s own GSA called for a protest on Monday, 2/28. Another protest is planned for tomorrow at 9 am.

The federal Equal Access Act requires all schools receiving federal funds to offer fair opportunities for students to form extracurricular groups, regardless of religious, political and philosophical leanings. The Flour Bluff district has argued that it does not have to follow this law. Flour Bluff High principal James Crenshaw asserts that the school has the discretion to approve (or ban) any club. Flour Bluff had approved a Christian Athletic organization, but not the GSA. In a valiant display of democratic values, it is now banning gay and Christian clubs equally.

The ACLU entered the fray the week, giving Flour Bluff until Wednesday to approve the GSA or face a lawsuit.

Modern School
http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/texas-schools-block-gsa-by-banning-all.html

[bluestateguy]

1. So they are so fervently homophobic that they will ban the stamp collection club to stop a GSA?

Talk about destroying a village to "save" it.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Recommended. nt

[LiberalFighter]

3. They are idiots.

They are not banning any other clubs? Just christian and gay clubs? I don't think that will wash.

Personally, there shouldn't be any religious clubs under any circumstances because of the separation clause.

The only way they could had prevented gay clubs and not gotten into trouble imo is if they had not allowed any clubs prior to the incident or thought that a gay club might have been formed.