Texas School District Forced To Pay $77,000 To Student Outed To Mother By Softball Coaches

By Scott Kaufman
Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:06 EST

The Kilgore Independent School District (KISD) has reluctantly agreed to allow its insurance company to pay $77,000 to a former student whose high school softball coach outed her as a lesbian to her mother.

The settlement is the end of a legal battle that began in 2009, when two KISD softball coaches, Cassandra Newell and Rhonda Fletcher, informed the mother of then 16-year-old Skye Wyatt that they believed she was in a relationship with an 18-year-old woman.

According to Wyatt’s lawsuit, the coaches locked Wyatt in a room and accused her having a sexual relationship with the older woman. She denied it, at which point they threatened to sue her for slander, told her she could no longer play softball, and called her mother, who arrived 40 minutes later.

The coaches then informed Barbara Wyatt that her daughter was homosexual.

With the help of the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), Wyatt was able to win this “significant monetary compensation,” as well as a concession from the KISD that it will institute a 30-minute teacher training session designed to protect the privacy of LGBT students.

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