Claudettia Love, a lesbian senior high school student, said she would no longer attend the school prom because the principal did not allow her to wear a tuxedo. It is not just Adore but also her close friends from the Carroll High in Monroe are boycotting the prom because of the school's policy.

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Principal Patrick Taylor defended the policy as part of the school's dress code, but Monroe City College Board President Rodney McFarland believes it is discrimination. He said he would ask the superintendent, Brent Vidrine, to speak to Taylor.

"As school board president, I don't agree with Carroll [Taylor] banning her from her prom just because of what she wants to wear - that's discrimination," said McFarland. "As far as I know, there is no Monroe City School Board policy saying what someone has to wear to attend the prom. You can't just go making up policies," quotes USA Today.

Taylor reportedly has told faculty members that they would not supervise the prom scheduled on April 24 if the girls would wear tuxedos, reports Bulletinstandard.com.

Geraldine Jackson, mother of Love, quotes the principal as saying, "Girls wear dress and boys wear tuxes, and that's the way it is."

In turn, Love, who is an honor student and has a full scholarship to Jackson State University after graduation, felt the school used her by placing her in honors and advance placements so she could take tests and improve the school's standing.

However, when the time came for her to celebrate her accomplishments and upcoming graduation, the school does not want her to do it in the way that she wants to, she told her mother.

In 2014, Love was presented at the Monroe City School Board meeting as one the school's high achievers. She will also represent the school at its yearly Scholars' Banquet for top students in the Ouachita Parish.

Love said she is battling the school on behalf of other female students in the lower grades who also have different sexual orientations and feel unaccepted by others because of their gender preference and lifestyle.

She said, "I don't want them to feel like they are less of a person because people don't accept them," quotes Daily Mail.

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