“People are upset and want the school board to know that sacrificing the needs of all students isn’t fair," wrote Joyce Hamilton Henry, Mid-Florida Regional Director for the ACLU, "and that Bayli and her friends should be allowed to form their club to make Carver a safer school.”
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"A lot of kids are already mad at me, thinking I'm the reason their clubs are getting canceled. But I wanted to stand up for what I believe, and I wasn't going to take no for an answer."
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"More than 100 parents, students, residents and a few pastors showed up at a Lake County School Board meeting Monday afternoon, many wearing red shirts to show support for a proposed Gay-Straight Alliance club at Carver Middle School in Leesburg.
The demonstration came as the School Board weighed a possible ban on extra-curricular student clubs at secondary schools that are not tied to academics. Such a rule would keep the gay-straight student group from forming at the school.
Many people who spoke were overcome with emotion as they urged the board to allow the gay-straight group to meet."
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