The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Vermilion Parish School Board claiming the single-gender classes at Rene Rost Middle School. They claimed that the division is discriminatory and violated students rights to an equal education.
The suit was filed in September 2009 and was filed on behalf of a Rost parent and her two daughters.
In April, a federal district judge ruled that all-boys and all-girls classes could continue under court-mandated conditions addressing errors in the program’s planning and implementation.

