Florida teacher under investigation over Walt Disney movie

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MIAMI – A Florida fifth-grade teacher appears to have gotten caught up in the middle of the ongoing feud between Gov. Ron DeSantis and Walt Disney.

Jenna Barbee, a first-year Hernando County Public Schools teacher, showed her Winding Waters K-8 students the movie “Strange World,” a comedy adventure by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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One of the Hernando County school board members alleged that since the movie features a gay character and a parent complained it was in violation of the Parental Rights in Education Act. A parent’s concern prompted a review.

In the computer-animated science-fiction adventure, Ethan Clade, played by Jaboukie Young-White, has a crush on his friend Diazo, played by Jonathan Melo.

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