A public school teacher in Florida who is under investigation for showing her class an animated Disney movie with a gay character said Monday that there’s no problem with what she did, adding that she didn’t know doing so was “such a big deal.”
anchor Alisyn Camerota asked Barbee if she knew she could be committing a violation by showing the 2022 PG-rated movie“I honestly had no idea. I had no idea whatsoever that this was such a big deal. I didn't even know it was a big deal until it was brought to my attention, because it's just these students all have one-to-one devices. They talk about these things all the time. I have shut down much worse in class,” she said.
“And so, to me, this was just a common theme that people talk about all the time. My students talk about it all the time.” Barbee said she chose the film because “that's what we were learning about in science, actually, at the time. It's the Earth's ecosystems and how plants and animals and life all just connect and grow.” She said at the time she thought it was “the perfect movie” and “will show them everything that I have been telling them all year about breathing with the trees and picking up the trash and why we don't kill the bugs.
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