EDMONTON -- Nearly one thousand people have signed a petition calling on the Red Deer Public School Division to reverse a decision not to host a district-wide Pride week in favour of a diversity week. "You send them to school hoping that there's these adult role models there advocating for them, as trustees should be doing, and I think it's obvious that that's not what's happening considering their decision to vote against Pride week," Jennifer Prevost, petition author, told CTV News Edmonton in an interview on Sunday. Although her children aren't yet part of the central Alberta public school system, Prevost called rallying support the least she could do to make the community more accepting.