Miami Teacher Showed ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ to Fourth Grade Class: A ‘Mental Health Counselor’ Has Met With ‘Students Who Expressed Concern’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Fourth graders at a K-12 charter school in Miami Springs got an upsetting Halloween surprise when their teacher screened the horror movie “Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood,” reports CBS News Miami.
Despite the title of the film including “Winnie the Pool,” the movie is not suitable for children as it follows Winnie and Piglet on a blood-thirsty rampage after Christopher Robin abandons them for college.
The film was shown to fourth graders at The Academy of Innovative Education on Monday, Oct. 2. “I feel completely abandoned by the school,” Michelle Diaz, a parent whose twins were in the fourth grade class, told CBS News, adding that the movie was shown because of a “careless teacher.” According to Diaz, the film played for “20 to 30 minutes” before the teacher shut it off.
She said that the students were allowed to a pick a movie to watch and they selected “Blood and Honey,” but “it’s not for them to decide what they want…It’s up to the professor to look at the content.” “He didn’t stop the movie, even though there were kids saying, ‘Hey, stop the movie, we don’t want to want this’,” Diaz added.
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