Cleveland County Schools Settles with ACLU Over Students Playing an LGBTQ Trivia Game

The Cleveland County Schools Board of Education reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging it violated students’ First Amendment rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina announced Monday.

The ACLU of NC originally filed the lawsuit in February in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, alleging the school district prohibited a student club at Shelby High School from playing a trivia game about important LGBTQ figures in history.

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