Jenna Barbee, a Florida fifth-grade teacher, said state officials are investigating her for showing 'Strange World,' Disney's first movie with a gay character. Barbee said “politics and the fear of not being able to be who you are” drove her to resigning.
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Still, Shannon Rodriguez, a school board member whose 10-year-old daughter watched the film in Barbee’s class, said she found it inappropriate and reported the incident to Winding Waters’s principal. Barbee said Rodriguez also reported her to the Department of Education, sparking a state-level investigation.
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