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School system agrees pro-life clubs are legitimate

Virginia's Stafford County school district has agreed to settle with a student who sued over the district's refusal to official recognition a pro-life club.In the district, only officially recognized clubs have access to the school bulletin board, newspaper and public address system as well as student activities and events on campus. But a Colonial Forge High School student was denied a request to have her club officially recognized because the school said it did not meet the standard of a "direct curricular link," says attorney David Cortman.Cortman, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing the student, says that was an inconsistent standard. "That's what's amazing about this case. First of all, school district policy allows both curriculum-related and non-curriculum-related clubs," he says. "Second of all, the clubs that have already been permitted-such as Students Against Destructive Decisions, Young Republicans, Young Democrats, the Key Club-the question there is, how are they any more related to the curriculum than a pro-life club?"A lawsuit against Stafford Schools was filed in September, and the district has now agreed to allow pro-life clubs and grant them the same official recognition and privileges as other student groups. In return, the student has agreed to dismiss her case.Cortman says it is a victory for students who want to exercise their First Amendment right to express pro-life speech. He explains that the district's use of "related to curriculum" to pick and chose which clubs to recognize was too vague of a definition, and violated the Constitution in this case.

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