Teacher under investigation says parental rights are ‘gone’ in public school system
Luke Gentile
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A fifth-grade teacher in Florida accused of “indoctrinating” students after showing them a film featuring a gay character argued parental rights don’t exist in the public school system.
Jenna Barbee, a teacher at Winding Waters K-8 school in the Hernando County School District, is under investigation by the district after showing her students Disney’s 2022 film Strange World following a standardized test, according to a report.
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A member of the local school board, who is a parent of a student, complained about Barbee’s actions at a May 9 board meeting.
“It is not a teacher’s job to impose their beliefs upon a child,” the board member said, arguing that the Disney film could open up their children to “conversations that have no place in our classrooms.”
Barbee is enduring a targeted attack, she told CNN This Morning.
“That same school board member is currently going around, right now … along with, you know, the whole, what DeSantis is doing, trying to get rid of all diversity elements out of schools completely,” she said.
“They’re trying to strip individuality and diversity to fit one common agenda, and it’s ruining everything. It’s not what America stands for.”
Parents, like the school board member who complained, fail to understand that they are not in the school system, according to Barbee.
The comments made by the school board member show that the woman is “ignorant and has not come and volunteered at all,” the teacher said.
“These conversations, these doors, they’re open,” she added. “These students have one-to-one devices. The amount of things they’re able to pull up that we have to shut down, these conversations, these doors she’s talking about and telling me I’m stripping her rights as a parent — those rights are gone when your child is in the public school system.”
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Parents need to realize that their children are going to have conversations they may not like at school, according to Barbee.
“There are students talking about these things,” she said. “It’s where they get 90% socialization for the day, and we can’t shut down every conversation every child has.”