Hi guys. Long thread you got here. I'm going to propose an alternate way to look at this, i.e. an interracial relationship in Atlanta in 1969. Not that I have a specific case, but HYPOTHETICALLY... A lot of people are still sensitive about interracial relationships, in fact, many of those same people are sensitive to homosexual relationships. If this girl was a white girl displaying affection to a black boy at school or vice versa, depending on her home situation, her parents could literally disown her because some people are simply intolerant. An interracial couple in a high school might also have been singled out for breaking a "no-PDA" rule, and there's no way to prove that. It's just like cops pulling people over for DWB. They may have been speeding a little, but in some cases the same cop would overlook a white person doing the same thing. Sometimes prejudices are even subconscious. At any rate, it's ridiculous for her to sue them for discriminating by disciplining her IF it's against the rules, even if the rule is unfairly enforced on homosexual students. But telling her parents that she had a girlfriend is not only completely unnecessary, it could be harmful to her. It's an invasion of her privacy and, yes, even teenagers have a right to privacy. Of course she has the right to sue for that.