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Chicago High School Uses 'Straight Pride' Shirts for Rights Education - FoxNews.com

Chicago High School Uses 'Straight Pride' Shirts for Rights Education - FoxNews.com

Chicago High School Uses 'Straight Pride' Shirts for Rights Education

By Joseph Bland

Published November 12, 2010

| FoxNews.com

A Chicago high school has decided to allow a small group of students to wear "Straight Pride" T-shirts, despite resistance from other students who say they found the clothing offensive on a week that the school was bringing attention to the bullying of gays, lesbians and transgenders.

A spokesman for St. Charles North High School says the decision was intended to be an educational moment.

“Considering they’re teenagers and becoming more socially aware, we need to do our job as educators,” Director of School and Community Relations Jim Blaney told FoxNews.com. “We need to help students find their way through this new world.”

The controversy started on Monday when the high school began “Ally Week," a program in