MIAMI SPRINGS, FL – A fourth-grade teacher out of Florida is coming under fire after parents say the teacher showed his students a graphic slasher film in class, which the film in question is a novel reimagining of Winnie the Pooh, aptly dubbed “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
For those unaware, the classic tale of Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in January of 2022, thereby making the characters and likenesses featured in A.A. Milne’s original 1926 book available for anyone to copy, distribute, and utilize creatively in any manner they please without any sort of formal permission.
And an indie movie studio opted to pull something out of leftfield with Winnie the Pooh being in the public domain, fast tracking a low-budget horror/slasher flick that same year featuring the iconic characters, with Winnie the Pooh and his friends from Hundred Acre Woods being the murderous characters driving the plot of the movie.
Needless to say, the film wasn’t received well by wider audiences, as the low-budget slasher genre tends to do minus the notable exceptions of series like Halloween and Friday the 13th, but “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” still has garnered a handful of fans seeing it as a ‘so bad it’s good’ type of watch.
Regardless of the collective sentiments of the film’s quality, despite being “not rated” by the MPAA, the low-budget slasher film is obviously recommended for audiences 17 and older due to the gratuitous amounts of graphic violence and coarse language. Common Sense Media noted the movie featured scenes of people being “smashed with sledgehammers, run over by cars, run through with blades, decapitated, strangled with chains, fed into woodchippers, and more.”
With the aforementioned in mind, parents of students at the Academy of Innovative Education in Miami Springs were left dumbfounded when they learned that a fourth-grade math teacher at the school showed students approximately 30 minutes of the movie on October 2nd before eventually turning the movie off after children began complaining about the content.
Michelle Diaz, a parent of a student at the school who spoke with CBS Miami after she met with the school’s principal over the debacle, told the outlet, “I feel completely abandoned,” adding, “He didn’t stop the movie, even though there were kids saying, ‘Hey, stop the movie, we don’t want to watch this.’”
According to Diaz, the teacher had apparently allowed some of the students to pick a movie to watch in class, with the slasher movie in question being the one some sought to watch. Clearly, not all the students were in favor of the film choice, and Diaz noted that it shouldn’t be up to select students to have a teacher play an adult film inside the classroom.
“It’s not for them to decide what they want to…It’s up to the professor to look at the content.”
Ms. Vera Hirsh, the school’s principal, issued a statement on the matter, stating that the school “promptly addressed” the incident with the teacher in question and that steps are being taken to ensure this sort of incident doesn’t occur again.
“The Academy for Innovative Education has become aware that a segment of a horror movie was shown to fourth graders, Monday, October 2, 2023, that was not suitable for the age group. Our administration promptly addressed this issue directly with the teacher and has taken appropriate action to ensure the safety and well-being of students. We are actively monitoring the students and our mental health counselor and principal have already met with those students who have expressed concerns.”
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