I’m not referring to the sexual predator teachers who deflower boys, or the LGBTQ indoctrinaters who see it as their mission to initiate kids into the joys of alternate sexuality, or the social justice warriors who teach kids to hate whites, the Founders, and the United States of America, or even the teachers whose intellectual skills, judgment and knowledge base better qualify them for work at a bait shop than in a Kindergarten-12 school.
No, the topic today is the Miami Springs math teacher employed by The Academy of Innovative Education, a charter school, who showed his fourth grade class of 9-year olds “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” the trailer for which you can see above, if you dare.
You know. Math.
The so far unnamed teacher showed the class about 30 minutes of the horror movie. His defense was that the class chose it, probably misled by its title. I suppose he also would have shown the kids “Piranha 3DD” or “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” if they asked for those films.
CBS’s Miami affiliate says that “some kids were seriously affected.” I wonder what that means. Have they had nightmares, or did some of them go on a bloody rampage, like Winnie in the movie after he is freaked out by Christopher Robin going away to college?
Asked to comment on the incident, the head of the school, Ms. Vera Hirsh, said,
“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.”
If the “appropriate action to ensure the safety and well-being of students” didn’t include firing the teacher and revamping the school’s hiring procedures, The Academy for Innovative Education should be torn down and its grounds seeded with salt, Ms. Hirsh should be required to find another field, like, say, waste disposal.
Children need to be taught more responsibly than this by rational and ethical teachers, so they can attend colleges like Harvard, Columbia and Stanford and be trained to hate Jews and support terrorism.
Ethics Alarms 
Had he spent class time talking about his personal life or reading them a book about the pros of gender fluidity or instructed them on how math is racist, would there even be this wan reaction?
When I was in college, an instructor got in trouble for constantly bringing up the Holocaust and presenting arguments that minimized or denied it. Students recording the class brought their concerns to the administration and the guy was fired. Good. He didn’t even teach a history class.
Our son took French in high school only to be stuck with a teacher who spent hours of class time talking about her personal life, divorce, etc. Complaints went nowhere. She shut down any attempts to record her via cell phone or even students trying to reach the French textbook and learn on their own. The other French teacher getting some of her students in a subsequent semester found that they were unprepared for the coursework.
Consequently, I have a bias against teachers that use class time to introduce subjects other than what they are paid to teach. With very few exceptions, that should be unacceptable.
I continue to marvel at the regularly displayed incompetence of the nation’s school systems.
Thank God for the right and ability to homeschool.
Honestly, after suffering through my son’s horrible experiences in private, public, and religious schools, I’m just sick of it.
“How Can Parents Be Expected To Trust Schools And Teachers When This Could Happen?” should be an at least weekly regularly recurring EA feature.
Isn’t it already?
Well, we certainly can’t say the academy isn’t engaging in innovative education!
My wonderful aunt was the librarian at Miami Springs Junior High School. My brother and I would go to summer school there (in her Corvair) and take all the wonderful things our Catholic grade school didn’t offer: Shop, drafting, touch typing (thank God), etc. How far elementary education has fallen in sixty years.
Ugh! I was going to include that line, and forgot.
Reductio ad absurdum isn’t very hard these days.
The owner of a local radio station in Santa Clarita CA (northern suburb of LA) had this editorial on his stations website yesterday… I’d almost nominate him for ethics hero…
https://www.hometownstation.com/santa-clarita-news/editorial-opinion/editorial-an-open-letter-to-my-liberal-jewish-friends-and-relatives-484122
(ignore the pop up ads…)
Cheers, Mike
Well, that was inappropriate for 4th graders and the teacher should be axed forthwith.
I get that many fairy tales are based on rather odd stories (“Little Red Riding Hood”) but, who would think of turning “Winnie the Pooh” into a gore-filled slasher movie? Is nothing sacred? The mind simply boggles.
jvb
This was a kind of a mid-sized splash when it announced. Winnie the Pooh’s trademark expired last year, and we’re going to see more of this as time-tested institutions start trickling in to the public domain (Mickey Mouse only has another year or two).