The district backed down and a settlement was negotiated, but not before Millstein was flooded with calls from adults who recounted the horror stories of their youth-of being too fat, too skinny, too flat-chested, too well-endowed. "Unless the kid is disrupting the educational process by drawing flies, this is none of the school's business," Millstein said. She had touched off the flap when she refused to open her towel for her teacher, who was to determine if she passed muster. "In my mind, it was absolutely barbaric," said David Millstein, the attorney who represented the girl. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit in 1994, when a shy, overweight girl in Hollidaysburg, Pa., challenged a mandatory shower policy at her high school. "I'm one of those guys who think nothing feels better after working out than a hot shower, but those days are gone and they aren't ever coming back," Wrenn said. Wrenn, who coached Homewood-Flossmoor to a state football title in 1994, is amazed to see muddy, sweaty players hit the bus instead of the showers. "I thought this was his own quirky hangup until I showed up and saw a line of cars all with parents doing the same thing." "When my son asked me to pick him up, I couldn't believe it," said one father. The club is a few blocks from the high school, but some team members get picked up by their parents who drive them home to shower, rather than use the facilities at the club, and then drive them to school.
Consider this scenario at Homewood-Flossmoor: Members of the boys tennis team practice at the community racquet club before school.
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