(Delaware News Journal) Wilmington has agreed to pay $50,000, revise policies and train staff to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by a Muslim school whose students were asked to leave a city pool last summer because of their garb.
In court records filed Tuesday, the city does not admit wrongdoing but does “regret that unclear swimwear policies and lack of specific training left the Plaintiffs feeling excluded from a City pool.”
The lawsuit came after the principal of Darul-Amaanah Academy said her students were harassed and discriminated against by city staff because of their religion.
On June 25, then-pool manager Glenda Pinkett approached four 5- and 6-year-old girls wearing a combination of headscarves, T-shirts and leggings and “told the girls to leave the pool immediately because of ‘what they were wearing,'” according to the lawsuit.
