Fourth graders freak out watching Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey in class
A Miami math teacher apparently didn't think much of showing his class Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey
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As if whatever’s going on in the United States education system isn’t bad enough, a group of Florida fourth graders are now having their mental health actively monitored after being accidentally shown the Winnie the Pooh B-movie slasher in class. Gone are the days when a substitute might roll in a television set and pop in a Schoolhouse Rock! VHS. Nowadays, in-class entertainment has to be so hardcore that the students need to see a counselor after.
According to one parent at The Academy of Innovative Education (a K-12 charter school in Miami Springs), these kids watched “20 to 30 minutes” of Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey in their math class, a movie they apparently picked themselves. “It’s not for them to decide what they want to,” the parent lamented to CBS News. “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,’” the mom said, telling the outlet that some kids were “seriously affected.”
Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey was made almost immediately after A.A. Milne’s beloved character entered the public domain. First look pics of the flick made a splash online, on account of being a grotesque, somewhat sexualized distortion of a beloved children’s character. See: Winnie and Piglet, who in this iteration is not a cute little fella but a hulking boar, menacing a bikini-clad woman in a hot tub. Ruined childhoods abound! The film is currently streaming on Peacock.
In a statement given to CBS News, the school 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.”
The statement concluded, “We are actively monitoring the students and our mental health counselor and principal have already met with those students who have expressed concerns.” Okay, now who would win in a fight: teacher who showed Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey, or teacher who gave students the inappropriate outdated nuclear bomb bunker activity?
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“By virtue of being a charter school, the institution hires its personnel independently.”
Yet another reason charter schools should be avoided at all costs. You sent your kids to a grade C school with grade C staff–you get grade C instruction. I once heard a charter teacher brag “we’ve got SO MUCH MORE FREEDOM than public school teachers!” Yeah–that’s not a good thing.
Entirely depends on the charter school’s admin. I taught at a lovely one right before the pandemic, and the school leader and other building administrators were amazing to work with, and demanding in what they expected out of their teachers. I also taught in one where for some reason the school leader was a businessperson and was only looking to make money (at a SCHOOL?), didn’t really give a shit about student development or staff retention.It’s very much worth looking up the school’s administration, what they believe in and are working hard towards, for parents willing to send their kids to a charter school. In some cases with huge cities, they can be better and receive more personalized instructions than they might in public schools.
>You sent your kids to a grade C school with grade C staff—you get grade C instruction.A C grade school is better than what most American public schools rank. They’re all below average, right in F territory.https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-advantage-3306225
Charter schools are a giant money grabbing scheme. Charter school teachers earn about 1/3 what a public school teacher earns and you get what you pay for. Also charter directors often embezzle a lot for themselves.
Not charter “directors”, charter “OWNERS”. Right? They’re privately owned and for-profit. At least here in AZ.
In my state they are non profits and affiliated with a chartering organization. So the directors have to creatively embezzle.
So, the teacher’s a math teacher but they teach the fourth grade. Does elementary have different teachers for different subjects now? I just had the one underpaid teacher. Also, what’s with the parent referring to the teacher as “the professor?” This whole thing’s weird.
Mate, just say “Ah. Florida.”, shrug, and move on.
No! I’m off today and I’m making it about this!
Mate, just say “Ah. Florida.”, shrug, and move on. Yeah, I read headlines like this and think “wonder where THAT happened?” I’m usually right if I guess Florida. Second guess is Texas, and (so far) there’s never a need for a third guess.
My kid had 4 different 4th grade teachers; think it just varies by school
I have a FL 4th grader and they have 3 different teachers. FWIW, they probably would not have complained about watching this movie.
The fact that it’s a charter school might play into some of the weirdness. The right wing loves to tout “school choice” and charter schools as a “better” alternative to public schools, but a lot of them are just fly-by-night operations with little oversight.
It has been a long time but I grew u in Houston/Spring, and IIRC which is hard some 40 years later I had 3 or 4 maybe even 5 teachers. But yes some would teach more than one subject.
Yep. My daughter has three different teachers.
The school is called the Academy For Innovative Education, and it’s in Florida. I suspect that’s just the tip of the weirdness iceberg.
Depends on your school. My oldest had the same teacher all day with the exception of gym and music at that grade level. My youngest has a different teacher for almost every subject.
Yes. In my catholic grade school, nearly every subject was a different teacher. Some might double up (like the English teacher would also teach religion or whatever).
Eh, my kids (3rd & 2nd grades) have a home room teacher, but also a math teacher, STEM teacher, art teacher, music teacher, Spanish teacher, and PE teacher (I’m pretty sure that’s it). And this is in a public school in Vermont, BTW. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a common method in a lot of schools around the country.
Weird charter school vibe going on there
It’s a charter school in Florida, the teacher is not a professor but he probably is a conservative christian, as is the parent, and they’re all morons
This checks out
Genuine question: what the F is up with Florida? Why does it so regularly appear in news with these bizarre, outsized or plain awful stories?
Because they have open records laws/rules, so the wild shit that happens there is REALLY easy to get details on.
Unless you’re the governor or one of his lackeys
Ever been to a beach town? There are a lot of weird people in beach towns.And since Florida is a peninsula, it’s about 50% beach towns.
And 35% swamp.
Its more then that. Its 50% Beach Town wrapped around tourist trap country. So its all sorts of crazy
It is full of old people. Specifically, well-to-do retirees who who have zero interest in investing in the public school system because their (grand)kids live elsewhere. They just wanted to relocate somewhere with lower taxes. It is full of Cuban fanatics whose (understandable) anti-communist resentment has metastasized into a virulent brand of conservativism.It is, despite what you may have heard, in the South. As at least one other commenter has noted, they have aggressive open record laws that make mug shots and other details more available than they would be coming out of other states.
Because its a meme. Same dumb stuff happens everywhere, but is a meme to talk about it when it happens in Florida. Especially on sites where most people are on the political Left since Florida is largely a conservative state.
Do yourself a favor and google “Florida Man” and your birthday. So many possibilities.
Floridians will tell you they moved there for the weather, but the truth is that they were kicked out of more respectable states like Alabama and West Virginia for being too batshit.
See I would have LOVED this even as a fourth grader lol. 4th grade would put you about 9 or 10 give or take, I watched the Exorcist with my mom when I was like 6 LMAO.
My nine year old freaked after he accidentally saw an ad for The Pope’s Exorcist. My response was “But that movie is soooo good!”
That’s funny, I mean not that it scared him, all kids are different. I grew up watching horror, the way my mom tells it, The Exorcist is the FIRST movie I ever saw, so I started young. But I also learned/knew it was all fake, I was really into special effects for a while as a kid, and once you know it’s all fake, and how they actually do most of it, there isn’t really anything to be scared of anymore. But it’s also funny cause I sleep with a TV on for the noise, and love this time of the year because of AMC Fear Fest and like if you didn’t know me some folks might freak out that I can sleep like a baby to the screams of terror in horror movies LOL.
I was the youngest of four kids with an evil older brother and two working parent. Plus it was the 80s and we had cable. So I saw all this shit way to young. As a parent now, I wouldnt want my ten year old seeing the Exorcist. Not because of the scary movie stuff alone but because I do not want to have to explain what “Your mother sucks dick in hell” means
Same here also a child of the 80’s lol. Most of the stuff I watched was 100% not age appropiate but I was also watching with my mom so there’s that.
You don’t have to explain it. They can use Google!
The day I had to explain “deez nutz” was hilarious and challenging.
I know people who want to be the one who scares but don’t like being scared back. Everybody’s different. I love being the scarer and the scared.
Russel Crow on a Vespa is very scary
So was that “Italian” accent he used.
His accent is scarier.
The difference is you can make that choice for yourself. You don’t get to make that choice for someone ELSE.
I didn’t agree with the teacher showing the movie in class just that I would have loved it.
Misspent youth here also. Likely aging myself but my first movie memories include The Shining, Aliens, Alien 3, and Terminator 2 on VHS and I remember being fairly disturbed but in a curious way rather than horrified. Weird third party anecdote on this would be that my friends parents used to record classic movies of a horror nature for him from TV, but then censor and “scrub” the vhs of the offending scenes by scrambling record at key scenes. What I always found wild about this was how different his first viewing experience of films like The Exorcist and Alien would be with said scenes removed.
That’s funny there is or was a service that did that for very conservative people, like they would scrub violence, sex, drugs, etc from movies and sell, I think, the heavily edited version.
Given DeSantis’ awful track record of what can and cannot be taught at Floridian schools, this teacher might have been doing his 4th grade students a favor. Least this shit’s better than PragerU curriculum, which has funny little videos of cartoon characters saying that slaves were actually happy and grateful to be slaves before the Civil War.
Those poor kids, not because it was too much horror for them. No, because I watched that movie 2 weeks ago and it was a giant piece of shit. 120 minutes of shit.
Wait, wait, wait. The low-rent Winnie the Pooh horror movies runs 120 minutes? Digital video was a mistake.
Sorry, I think it was 93 minutes. Bad Typo on my part, lol!But yes like a hour and half of shit!
It just felt like two hours you lost
For sure! I had to stop it at one point because I started to think to myself “Why the fuck did you promise yourself you would watch this whole movie!”A reminder to all, sometimes it’s okay to break a promise! 🙂
It is never OK to break an oath. The gods take a very, very dim view of such dishonorable conduct.
Say what you will about the Friday the 13th series, I’m sure it’s Shakespeare compared to this, but they knew to keep those movies under 90 minutes.
Yup, get in and get out!
Most of the Friday the 13th movies run 90 minutes. That’s generally the accepted minimum for features. I think four of them run 87-89 minutes but the rest are in the 90-95 sweet spot.
Florida parents: “It’s fine with me as long as none of the characters are gay.”
or has an abortion.
“or talks about (looks around quickly then crawls in really close and as they redden) spell under their breath S…E…X.”How these people managed to insert plug A into socket B is a fucking miracle.
Or is Black or Latinx.
What 30 something didn’t turn on childs play or another 80s horror classic on cable in their childhood and have a few nightmares…I mean I remember not wanting to even see the VJS boxes at blockbuster…But seriously affected?? Mental health?Yea right. These kids are going home and playing Call of Duty after class and dressing as Chucky for Halloween.So stupid. These kids are fine and the teacher is an idiot.
My daughters 5th grade class watch the first bit of Big before the teacher realized it really wasn’t appropriate.
Innovative Education, indeed.
This reminds me of childhood when a relative who was watching us kids for an afternoon got us the Little Mermaid to watch. No, not the Disney animated classic. The 1975 Toei Animation version, complete with the grim ending of the original fairytale.
This is gonna sound crazy but a lot of good teachers quit because of lack of Covid protocols or restrictions on what they could teach, and this is the result.
Somehow I doubt seeing 20-30 minutes of this movie was in any way more traumatizing than living in Florida.
Of course it was fucking Florida.
My family has a favorite story about this kind of thing, I think I have told it here before, but this seems like another good opportunity:South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut came out the summer that my wife and I got married. We were moving to go to another state to go to graduate school, so we didn’t have much to do for a few weeks except hold hands, eat places and watch movies. It was pretty great.We decided to go see the SP movie during one of these lazy afternoons, and went to the local theater, which was completely empty. But during the break between the first couple songs, a big group from a local day care came in-there must have been 30 kids, all ages about 10-12 with four college age chaperones. Keep in mind: This was at a time when the idea of adult animation hadn’t fully integrated into the culture as it has today. I am certain someone at this day care was looking for something for the group to do, saw there was an animated movie playing and decided to load up the old van for an afternoon of fun at the cinema without investigating further.You all know what happened next: The song “Uncle F——-” came on immediately after they were seated, in which every other word is nasty and the tone is truly set for the rest of the movie. You have never heard a group scream so loud in unison, led by the adults who were supposed to be policing this little adventure. There was so much yelling, and then those kids were shuffled out of there very fast. I have never seen a large group of people shuffled out the door that fast in my entire life-they got those kids out before the song was even finished!We have been married for almost a quarter century, and my wife and I still laugh about our theater experience with the South Park movie to this day.
Lol Florida.
A 4th grade classmate of mine rewrote the lyrics to a beloved children’s classic which became “Frosty the Madman.” It detailed an *extensive* killing spree that forever rocked that small community. We had a long bus ride so it didn’t take long for all the kids on that bus to know the words and it became our “99 Bottles of Beer.” Grades 1-5, all happily singing along.We were the so-called “gifted” children.
Of course a parent who sends their kid to a Florida charter school thinks that an elementary school teacher is a “professor” lmao
There was a misprint on Desantis’ approved films list. What was actually recommended was “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Soil”.
Sounds like Xi Jingpooh wont be sending his kids to Florida