With a laid-back atmosphere, stiff drinks, good friends, and friendly competition, everyones a winner at. Leonardi said she loves public education and always wanted to be a teacher she couldn't imagine herself doing anything else. Or you can simply sit back and watch the game on one of the bars big-screen televisions. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 11,426. "I can't believe I'm bringing a child into all of this," she said. Wilton Manors is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States.
Leonardi is nine-months pregnant, which only adds an additional layer of anxiety and stress, she said.
"I believe these are a lot of fake moral crises that are meant to distract from the day-to-day business of public education," she said. She said the abuse she's endured is just a "microcosm" of what's been happening around the country. Leonardi said she has friends who are school board members across Florida who have experienced their own harassment and abuse. 'The bar and restaurant was not open to the general public while students were present inside. Broward County Public Schools did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Broward County Public Schools officials have also defended the trip, reiterating that it was part of an effort to educate the children about neighborhood safety, community helpers, and the importance of being a community member. Leonardi said she's reported the threatening messages and vulgar harassment to the school district's safety and security department. Instead, the abuse has come from people outside the community - apparently angry because they baselessly think Leonardi is trying to push an agenda. Leonardi said backlash hasn't been from community members, who she said have been rallying around her, the school, and the restaurant. Meanwhile, education officials have been the subjects of abuse, harassment, and threats as tensions boil over at a national stage. School board meetings across the country have become the battlegrounds of culture war issues like critical race theory, vaccine requirements, and mask mandates. "They all characterized it as if I had taken children without parental consent to a gay bar to, like, indoctrinate them with an LGBTQ agenda," she told Insider. Leonardi said the harassers seem to think she took the students to the restaurant without their parents' permission. The uproar began when Broward County Public Schools board member Sarah Leonardi posted photos on social media Wednesday of the Wilton Manors Elementary School field trip to Rosie's Bar and Grill. Screenshots show examples of the profane abuse Sarah Leonardi says she's received over a school field trip. "Take my kid to a gay bar you will have to answer to Mr 9mm," one user wrote on social media. One person accused her of being a pedophile. Ron DeSantis suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on Friday over his handling of February’s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Some abuse has been graphic and sexist, urging her to kill herself or threatening sexual violence.