School bans all non-academic clubs to avoid approving gay-straight alliance

A Texas school district has banned all non-academic clubs from meeting on campus to ensure it’s complying with federal law after refusing to allow a student to start a gay-straight alliance.

The decision by the Flour Bluff Independent School District comes after Bianca “Nikki” Peet, a senior at Flour Bluff High School requested to start the GSA.

In a letter to Paul Rodriguez, the president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, who has supported Peet’s efforts to organize the GSA, Superintendent Julie Carbajal defended the decision and said the school was committed to “supporting the cultural diversity” of all students.