The state of Hawaiʻi is preparing to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a middle school principal who claimed the education department didn’t take safety threats against her seriously and retaliated against her for filing a sexual harassment complaint.
Katherine Balatico began receiving threats over social media in May 2020, when she was the principal at Stevenson Middle School in Honolulu.
In an Instagram post, a Stevenson student threatened to burn down the school and kill Balatico. A month later, Balatico received an email at work from an unrecognized sender who detailed plans to rape her, burn down her home and kill her children…