Sequoyah High School is a school in Madisonville, Tennessee

Madisonville, Tennessee

Madisonville is a city in Monroe County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,939 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Monroe County and the location of Hiwassee College.-Geography:...

 built in 1995 that combined Vonore High School and Madisonville High School. It is named after the Cherokee Indian Sequoyah

Sequoyah

Sequoyah , named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible...

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Gay Straight Alliance Club

In August of 2011, after years of bullying, a group of Sequoyah High students in Madisonville, wanted it to stop. However, when several students attempted to start a gay–straight alliance to address the bullying they were ordered to stop circulating a petition asking for the group to be permitted at the school.

On September 30, 2011, principal Maurice Moser allegedly assaulted a student because the student wore a t-shirt in support of the Gay-Straight Alliance Club.