Is a 'genderbread person' too 'woke' for Florida?
Gingerbread people are a staple of winter festivities, but a depiction of the old-fashioned cookie isn’t bringing holiday cheer to a South Florida school district this season.
Diana Fedderman, the Palm Beach School Board’s former assistant superintendent, filed a complaint in federal court accusing the district and its superintendent, Michael Burke, of violating her free speech and violating Florida’s whistleblower act.
She alleges that Burke and the district demoted her after she made public statements in her personal time criticizing the Republican-controlled state government, as well as her questioning a decision by Burke to remove “the genderbread person,” a poster explaining the concept...
