The Hawaii Department of Education has settled a lawsuit that claimed only male athletes had locker rooms, leaving girls to change in the bleachers or at a nearby Burger King.
When female athletes at James Campbell High School in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, needed to change before and after their games, they did not use the school’s locker room, according to a 2018 lawsuit.
Last week, the former Campbell athletes secured a settlement that will ensure girls at the school receive equal athletic benefits as their male peers, attorneys for Badis and Troup announced Friday. The settlement is not monetary but will require the state department of education to hire an independent evaluator to address inequities and evaluate the school’s compliance for the next seven years.
Campbell, the largest public high school in Hawaii, with an enrollment of about 3,000 students, discriminated against female athletes in game scheduling, travel opportunities, publicity, and access to facilities and coaches, according to the lawsuit.Besides the lack of a locker room, girls’ teams had games regularly scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays, while three-quarters of Friday night slots were reserved for boys’ sports, the lawsuit alleged.
When athletes on the girls’ water polo team raised concerns about their program, the state education department and Campbell administrators allegedly retaliated by withholding funding from the team and forcing them to resubmit paperwork.The team’s unusual practices were memorialized in a school yearbook page, where players complained that the conditions in the ocean were not properly preparing them for a season of competition in regulation pools, according to the lawsuit.
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