'Girls wear dresses... that's the way it is': School principal tells lesbian senior she can't wear a tuxedo to prom
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- Claudetteia Love was planned to go to prom dateless with a group of friends
- Carroll High School principal Patrick Taylor said the decision was part of the Monroe, Louisiana school's dress code
- Monroe City School Board President says Taylor is being discriminatory
- Love is a top student and has a full scholarship to Jackson State University
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Carroll High School senior Claudetteia Love will skip her senior prom after her Monroe, Louisiana, school's principal told her that she would not be allowed to wear a tuxedo
[QUOTE]A gay student in Louisiana says she is going to skip her senior prom because the school principal won't let her wear a tuxedo.
Claudetteia Love, a senior and one of the top students at Carroll High in Monroe, said she was planning on going to the prom without a date and with a group of friends, but now she and her friends are staying away.
Though a petition was started and signed by members of the senior class to allow Love to wear a tuxedo, it was not acted on by school faculty.
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Principal Patrick Taylor told Love that the decision was dress-code related and that she shouldn't take it personally
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'I told my mom, "They're using me". They put me in all these honors and advanced placement classes so I can take all of these tests and get good grades and better the school, but when it's time for me to celebrate the fact that I've accomplished what I need to accomplish and I'm about to graduate, they don't want to let me do it the way I want to,'' she told The News-Star.
The decision is part of the school's dress code and not anything personal, principal Patrick Taylor told The News-Star.
Love's mother, Geraldine Jackson, said Taylor told her faculty members said they wouldn't supervise the April 24 prom if girls wore tuxes.
'That's his exact words. "Girls wear dresses and boys wear tuxes, and that's the way it is,"' she said.
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