by Rex Wockner
U.S. NEWS
The board of trustees of Flour Bluff Independent School District in Corpus Christi, Tex., granted permission March 8 for students to form a campus gay-straight alliance after the American Civil Liberties Union intervened on behalf of Nikki Peet, a student who had been denied permission to start the club.
According to the ACLU, the school had threatened to prevent all extracurricular groups from meeting rather than allow the GSA to form.
"It shouldn't have taken this long and this much struggle to start a club whose purpose is to make our school a safer space for all students," said Peet. "We can't wait for the first meeting."
