PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—A Florida educator has filed a lawsuit against Lee County schools after being fired last week for sounding the alarm that her school was not reporting violent threats, which is required by state law. The former assistant principal also contended as part of her lawsuit that she was discriminated against on the basis of her ethnicity and health issues and wants to be compensated with back pay, front pay, insurance costs, benefits, and damages. Peggy Slichter, who has spent two decades as an educator, said that the school she worked for, Manatee Elementary, failed to report several student-involved “violent and disruptive incidents” that, by Florida statute, are supposed to be reported regularly. A week ago, Slichter had told local Fort Myers television station WINK News that she had serious concerns about the district’s safety reporting and had been fired for pushing for state guidelines to be followed, the outlet reported. …