‘Educate yourself about Broward County Schools. Leonardi also shared photos of about a dozen kids coloring in pumpkins, which feature a restaurant sign on a lawn as well as the restaurant’s Bar & Grill logo. ‘Whether it’s for lunch or dinner, Sunday funday brunch or just for a few drinks… Whether you’re LBGTQ+ or a collaborator… Whether you’re a local or just visiting… Solo… you’ll find the best in South Florida It will be a memorable experience with the talented crew,’ Bar & Grill writes on its website.Īdded description, ‘Rozi is a place worth visiting… more to be visited!’. Kids were pictured inside the bar, which featured rainbow-colored decorations and raucous menu items, including Naked Sweaty Lovin’ Chicken Tenders, cooked in Rosie’s own “Smack My Cheeks and Make ‘Em Rosie” sauce. That being said… it was unfair and many people, including those who sanctioned it, should be held accountable,’ another wrote. ‘I assume that their field trips like our field trip will have to submit a request with details of the trip as well as educational value. Someone else tweeted, ‘Honestly could care less if the establishment is all at once “gay” or whatever.īroward County School Board member Sarah Leonardi posted photos of a group of Wilton Manors Elementary School kids at Rosie’s Bar and Grill
‘Whether it’s a gay bar or not….it’s a bar!! Why are the kids going on field trips to the bar?!?!,” posted a Twitter user. ‘I was so honored to be invited on a field trip to Wilton Manors Elementary for the incredible Rosie! The students and I enjoyed the walk and learned a lot about our community! Many thanks to Rosie Bar & Grill for hosting this special field trip every year!’ posted by leonardi Twitter And Facebook on Thursday.Ĭommentators quickly questioned whether the bar, gay or not, was the place to take young children on a field trip in the first place. Every race, color, creed or ethnicity," he told the paper.A Florida Grade-schoolers are taken on a field trip to a gay bar after an elementary school fires-one that offers menu items filled with sexual puns like Rhoda Cowboy and Ivana Hooker.īroward County School Board member Sarah Leonardi shared photos on social media of a group of children from Wilton Manors Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale at Rosie’s Bar and Grill, a well-known LGBT hangout. Zieba also pushed back against the individuals referring to Rosie's as a "gay bar" on social media in a conversation with The Miami Herald. "We're getting horrible emails, they're jamming our phone lines all day with nasty comments, cursing out my staff," Zieba told the station. John Zieba, the owner of Rosie's, told WFOR-TV his staff has also been targeted as news of the field trip spread. Misster gay bar in downtown Dallas hosted the drag queen event aimed at children. Tensions flared when protesters demonstrated outside the venue hosting the drag queen show for children. The students were given a kids-friendly menu while visiting Rosie's, the district added. A Texas gay bar hosted a Drag the Kids to Pride event where drag queen dancers provocatively gyrated in front of children as young as toddlers. "In addition, as part of the field trip, the Wilton Manors Police Department provides traffic assistance for the students so they can see and learn about the different ways police officers support the community."
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The students "learn about the types of jobs involved in operating a restaurant, how to pay for their meal, and how to leave a tip for the service they receive," the district's statement said. and second-largest in Florida, responded to the controversy in a statement issued Thursday that said the field trip was part of a lesson known as "how we organize ourselves" in which students learn about the organizational structure and responsibilities of a community. Pushaw's tweet about the field trip included a photo of the bar and grill's menu and suggested Leonardi may have initiated the visit "EXPECTING that some parents would protest, so she could call the FBI and go on MSNBC to discuss all the 'threatening messages' she's received from 'insurrectionist' parents."īroward County Public Schools, the sixth-largest school district in the U.S. Leonardi's post began receiving negative responses from other members of the community and even from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' press secretary, Christina Pushaw. Florida elementary school is slammed after board member took children on field trip to a gay bar where menu items include Willy Cheesesteak and Rhoda Cowboy Broward County school board member Sarah.
I was SO honored to be invited to chaperone field trip to the incredible Rosie’s! The students and I had a fun walk over and learned a lot about our community! A huge thank you to for hosting this special field trip every year! /A3rpMbyUJP- School Board Member Sarah Leonardi October 27, 2021