The beautiful, talented and pregnancy-free Chasity Norwood.
By all measures, Chasity Norwood appears to an
exemplary student at Jackson High School:
She had good grades, would serve manager of both the football and volleyball teams, was staying active in church and working at a local grocery store.
She signed up for her fourth year in the Student Government Association and that is when things went sour. Chasity admitted she'd put on weight recently, but the school advisor in charge of the SGA completely and repeatedly embarrassed her, likely breaking a few laws in the process:
But when Chasity went to sign-up for SGA in late August, she said the SGA teacher and adviser asked her if she was pregnant.
Chasity brushed it off. A few days later, the advisor asked again.
"The coordinator saw her in the lunch room and said she wanted to talk with her," Williams said. "She asked her if she was a Christian, she [Chasity] said yes. She [the adviser] asked another teacher to get her a Bible. When she got the Bible, Chasity told me that she asked her to swear that she was not pregnant."
Chasity swore on the Bible she wasn't pregnant and paid the $25 SGA dues.
End story? Nope. The advisor brought it up again a few weeks later, denying her membership in the SGA:
"She [the adviser] said, 'I think you're pregnant and you can't walk behind me pregnant,'" Williams said. "And, that really hurt her. She [the adviser] said, 'Your check will be refunded. I hope you graduate and have a nice life.'''
The school says she wasn't allowed in because her payment was late. Chasity and her mother say they know of other students who turned in payment even later and were not denied.
Chasity's mother says the principal has been willing to talk, but nothing has been done to the advisor. The school district says they are investigating. In a video report by 11 Alive news (seen here), they note several laws may have been violated by the advisor.