This 6th grader was suspended for starting a gay-straight alliance. What happened next is amazing.

Wren Prhal
Photo by Brianna Prahl

Meet Wren Prahl, a sixth-grader at iForward, a virtual-only public charter school based in northwest Wisconsin.

When Prahl, who uses they/them pronouns, tried to start a gay-straight alliance at their school, administrators first skirted the issue before suspending them. So Prahl called the ACLU.

Various students and faculty at iForward had begun request a GSA as early as 2019. When Prahl started at the school in Fall 2020, they began the push to make the club a reality.

“The school didn’t already have one and I wanted to meet more people,” Prahl told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Prahl approached the school principal, Constance Quade, in December in hopes of starting the club. Quade initially told Prahl that the request would have to wait until a new semester, as the school did not approve student-initiated clubs mid-term.

In January, Prahl tried again, enlisting a teacher to email students about joining the school’s “Rainbow Club.” Principal Quade responded by suspending Prahl for one day in February for trying to advertise non-school-sponsored activities.

For Prahl, the suspension came as a shock. iForward offers…

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