The Lake County School Board waived a controversial policy concerning school clubs. But not for the club who’s suing the district over it.

The controversy started in 2013 with a 14-year-old girl’s desires to have a Gay Straight Alliance at her school. Met by strong feelings on both sides and then a lawsuit, the Lake County School Board re-wrote its policies on school clubs, creating three categories that give the least privileges to clubs deemed non-curricular.

That led to a lawsuit this month by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and their attorneys who called the policy unconstitutional and illegal.

Monday, Kiwanis Club members showed up in support of another non-curricular club facing challenges, the Key Club.

“The policy caused the teachers not to be able to be sponsors of the clubs," said Dalton Yancey, Kiwanis advisor to area Key Clubs. "It’s hard to get a group of students to go to a convention where they are going to learn to be better citizens when they grow up, without there being chaperones.”

But when the schools submitted requests to go to the convention, inexplicably Lake County's School Board denied three schools' requests and accepted one.

“It was our mistake that the first one got submitted," Superintendent Dr. Susan Moxley said. "So either it needs to be rescinded or we need to treat them all the same.”

Without any discussion, the board moved for a one-time waiver of its policy and decided to approve all school Key Clubs for the trip.

“We appreciate them being willing to work with us," Yancey said. "We look forward to them trying to work with us in the future to make a better policy that will be better for all the clubs.”

Yancey said the Key Club has been active in Lake County since World War II.