An openly gay honor student at a Louisiana high school has been told she cannot attend her prom because she wants to wear a tuxedo.

Senior Claudetteia Love says that her school, Carroll High School, has no dress code policies and that the ruling by the school board is directly related to her sexual orientation.

“I told my mom, ‘They’re using me. They put me in all these honors and advanced placement classes so I can take all of these tests and get good grades and better the school, but when it’s time for me to celebrate the fact that I’ve accomplished what I need to accomplish and I’m about to graduate, they don’t want to let me do it, the way I want to,’ ” she said.

Love’s mother, Geraldine Jackson, met with Principal Patrick Taylor who told her that the faculty assigned to supervising prom refused to do so if girls were going to wear tuxes, according to USA Today.

Love’s sister also overheard faculty talking during school hours about the prom rule.

“It’s not about how they dress,” she said. “They’re judging them. They are at school talking about being gay is a sin. Everybody sins. The only person who can judge is God; you can’t judge them.”

Along with Love, the group of friends she was going to attend prom with are also not going to attend the event. And there was a petition started by members of the senior class that was presented to the faculty about the situation, with no action or response from the school.

Apparently there was no documentation by the school that there was any sort of dress code for their prom. Luckily, after hearing Love’s story, the Monroe City School Board President, Rodney McFarland, jumped on board to take action on Love’s behalf.

McFarland said he would reach out to the Superintendent, Brent Vidrine, and request a meeting to discuss the “rule” with the school’s principal.

“As school board president, I don’t agree with Carroll banning her from her prom just because of what she wants to wear — that’s discrimination,” he said. “As far as I know there is no Monroe City School Board policy saying what someone has to wear to attend the prom. You can’t just go making up policies.”

With the support from others, Love is determined to remain strong and use her experience to make a change for others following on her same path.

Love will be graduating this spring, and has received a full academic scholarship to Jackson State University where she will attend in the fall.