Florida teacher defends showing Disney movie: ‘I’m just being accepting’

Jenna Barbee, who is under investigation, insists film is related to curriculum and warns investigators are traumatizing her students

A Florida teacher under investigation because she showed her class the Disney animated movie Strange World which features a gay character has defended herself on social media, insisting the film related to the curriculum and warning that state investigators were traumatizing her 10- and 11-year-old students.

Jenna Barbee, a teacher at Winding Waters school in Hernando county, Florida, released a six-minute TikTok video in which she gave her side of the story. She said she had been reported to the local school board by one of her students' mother, who sits on the board and was on a rampage to get rid of every form of representation out of our schools", Barbee alleged.