A Florida teacher is facing an investigation by the state Department of Education after she screened a Disney movie with a gay character to her students in the classroom, she said.
Jenna Barbee, a fifth-grade teacher at Winding Waters School in Hernando County, defended her decision to play the movie “Strange World” in a video statement on TikTok.
Barbee said she screened the PG-rated movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal to give students a break after exams.
She claimed that all her students had parent-signed permission slips to watch PG movies. However, a parent and school board member later objected to the film’s inclusion of an LGBTQ character.