In an open letter with 1,000 signatures, students from 34 schools in greater Sydney have asked principals to forfeit the right to discriminate against LGBT teachers.

The letter comes amidst the request by the 34 schools to be exempt from the Government’s plan to remove the right to expel gay students, while retaining the right to sack LGBT teachers.

The letter, organised by former St Luke’s Grammar Student Max Loomes, includes signatures from students at Trinity Grammar and the Kings School.