ACLU sues over same-sex classroom in Louisiana

Sept. 9, 2009
Group challenges new program at Rene Rost Middle School in Vermillion Parish

From The Baton Rouge Advocate: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a same-sex classroom plan at a Vermilion Parish, La., middle school. The suit was filed on behalf of an unnamed parent and her two children, whom attend Rene A. Rost Middle School. The suit contends that the students were placed in sex-segregated classrooms without being offered equal co-educational options as required by law.

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