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Florida teacher sued for showing kids Disney cartoon

A schoolteacher is under investigation by the Florida Department of Education after she showed her class the Disney animated film Strange World. DeadLine.

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Jenna Barbie, a teacher at Winding Waters K-8 Hernando County, went viral on TikTok by sharing her story on social media.

“I am a teacher who is under investigation by the Florida Department of Education for suggesting certain ideas during a Disney movie screening,” she said in the over six-minute video.

Barbie explained in the video that she wanted to give the students a "brain break" after the morning standard test. During the day, the students were divided between Barbie's class and another teacher's class into those who passed the test and those who didn't. Barbie said all parents have signed permission for their children to view the PG-rated film "without objection to certain content."

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“The reason I was reported was because one of the students in the class was the daughter of a school board member,” she explained. “And this district school board member is currently trying very hard to get rid of our school’s representation on the board.”

Barbie says she eventually met with a member of the student council and says she "understood her point, that she really didn't want it to be shown."

"I'd never seen that kind of perspective before, so I didn't think it was a big deal, but when I saw how upset she was, I told her, 'I've learned my lesson,'" Barbie said.

The Student Council member had already informed Barbie of the investigation, and there was little she could do at that point. Barbie said she chose "Weird World" because it ties into the Earth and Ecosystem Sciences and how they interact - plants, people, animals - curriculum.

“I felt like I chose the best way to demonstrate all of these standards—a lesson about overcoming differences, spreading kindness, community, and chasing your dreams,” she continued.

What is the movie about

Strange World, released in 2022, follows a family of explorers voiced by Gabrielle Union, Lucy Liu, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Dennis Quaid. The characters include Ethan Clayde, voiced by Toads Young-White, the first ever gay Disney character.

And the rest of the characters have their own characteristics. In particular, the family's teenage daughter is a lesbian, the dog only has three legs, and the other characters represent different races.

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Barbie says the film's LGBTQ+ character is not the reason she showed the film to class.

“I don’t promote anything, I just accept everything, that’s what I do,” she said.

Barbie says the LGBTQ+ aspect of the film is "harmless" and it's just "falling in love talk".

“None of my students paid attention to these features of the plot. They didn't even know it was a big deal until the board member and the staff made it big," Barbie said, adding that it was more traumatic for the students to be questioned by an investigator.

At a public school board meeting on May 9, board member Shannon Rodriguez accused Barbie of violating school policy.

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“It is not a teacher’s job to impose on a child their beliefs: religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, any of the above. But showing films like this helps open the door for teachers, and please listen to me, it helps teachers open the door to conversations that have no place in our classrooms,” Rodriguez said. “As a leader in this community, I am not going to stand by and allow this minority to infiltrate our schools... God put me here.”

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