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<\/p>\nLee County teacher investigated for Charlie Kirk posts sues superintendent<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:44 PM EST Nov 3, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Lee County teacher who has been under investigation for posting comments on social media in regard to conservative activist Charlie Kirk has sued the school district superintendent. Lemuel Teal Middle School teacher Brooke Wold filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Lee County Superintendent, Dr. Denise Carlin, on Friday. Wold claims her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated over the district’s action regarding Carlin’s recommendation to fire her.According to documents from the School District of Lee County, Wold made the following comments in September on social media:”Remember Charlie did say, ‘Some gun deaths are worth it.'””I pray Charlie receives whatever God sees fit (smiling emoji)””Well sounds like he made a sacrifice that was worth it for him”Wold was one of three teachers who were suspended without pay and recommended for termination by the superintendent.She appealed the action. On Tuesday, the Lee County school board will vote to continue to suspend them without pay until they have a hearing with the state to receive an outcome of the appeal.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tLEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A Lee County teacher who has been under investigation for posting comments on social media in regard to conservative activist Charlie Kirk has sued the school district superintendent. <\/p>\n Lemuel Teal Middle School teacher Brooke Wold filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Lee County Superintendent, Dr. Denise Carlin, on Friday. Wold claims her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated over the district’s action regarding Carlin’s recommendation to fire her.<\/p>\n According to documents from the School District of Lee County, Wold made the following comments in September on social media:<\/p>\n “Remember Charlie did say, ‘Some gun deaths are worth it.'””I pray Charlie receives whatever God sees fit (smiling emoji)””Well sounds like he made a sacrifice that was worth it for him”<\/p>\n Wold was one of three teachers<\/a> who were suspended without pay and recommended for termination by the superintendent.<\/p>\n She appealed the action. On Tuesday, the Lee County school board<\/a> will vote to continue to suspend them without pay until they have a hearing with the state to receive an outcome of the appeal.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee County teacher investigated for Charlie Kirk posts sues superintendent Updated: 5:44 PM EST Nov 3, 2025 Editorial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-269698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}