Cleveland private school says they will give student who came out as gay her diploma
Cleveland private school says they will give student who came out as gay her diploma
A high school senior is suing her own school in Cleveland under claims thatthey suspended her from school and are withholding her diploma after she came out as
They suspended this girl for coming out as a lesbian on Facebook, and withheld her degree. Threatened to retaliate if she made further comments on social media.
Sick sad fucks.
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Hope she takes them to the cleaners, a paid for private school diploma is not contingent on sexual orientation
SCOTUS has ruled that privately held companies can have religious discrimination, established in Burwell v Hobby Lobby (2014) allowed hobby lobby to refuse providing contraceptive Healthcare coverage to their employees. I would not be surprised by the current court siding with the school over the student.
Except she isn't employed by the school her parents presumably paid for a service that was withdrawn on false grounds.
It's a private school we don't know what's in their contracts.
Might depend on the school's started reasoning. If being gay was against the "school rules" they could have a valid reason for removing the student.
Private schools in the US have historically been a way to shut out the “wrong” kind of kid anyway.
As a “fun” exercise, if you are in the US, look up when your state was desegregated and compare to your local non-Catholic private schools’ founding dates…
Good news!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/louisiana-republicans-school-desegregation.html
One of the major jobs of the department of education was to enforce desegregation, now scotus has cleared the way for a new wave of segregation academies, like under Jim crow.
They have to be religious, but if your church is all white then your school can be too!
The south has finally risen again :(
Did you read the article?
The lawsuit claims this is a violation of the schools disciplinary policy as well as a breach of her tuition contract.
Neither of those are religious discrimination. Based on the schools own policy the first offense should result in a single day in school suspension yet they skipped the normal process and applied the strictest punishment they could.
Also, they continued to collect or kept, I can't remember the language used, the tuition paid but wouldn't fulfill the obligation required for that tuition.
I feel like before it even got that far she could just go to whatever job or college she's trying to apply to with a news story about her high school being stupid for proof of education and a few letters of recommendation for proof of character and just skip the diploma altogether
Fair enough, definitely not trying to say they aren't going to try to intimidate her or minimize how fucked up they're being, just saying I think/hope that will be a fight she'll win in the long run
I hope so too. It’s evil and sick. She deserves better. I hope the attention brings her better things and support.
It’s adults bullying children.