MUNCIE — Kathy Ray, a former human resources director at Muncie Community Schools, claims in a federal lawsuit that Superintendent Steven Baule regularly made sexist, racist and intimidating remarks.
The lawsuit filed Friday cites more than two dozen instances of Baule's "inappropriate, severely offensive and intimidating conduct that undoubtedly created a hostile work environment for several employees," including Ray, who is white.
The school district denied the allegations in a statement to The Star Press.
The superintendent, for example, allegedly:
• Said, during a meeting of minority administrators, "I came down because I thought there needed to be another white person in this group."
• Said, during a meeting with principals, that he has "big hands — as an insinuation to the size of his penis."
• Told a joke in front of Ray and others about the length of a donkey's ears and penis.
• Said of the president of the Muncie Teachers Association, "I will dance on Pat Kennedy's grave, and I will dig her grave with her skull."