Parent objects, stops children from seeing Disney film

The Tampa Bay Times reports that a North Shore Elementary (St. Petersburg, Fla.) parent objected that the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” being shown not all to her child but to all second-graders at the school.

“Ruby Bridges” is a 1998 film that tells the tale of a 6-year-old who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s and has been a staple of Pinellas County Black History Month lessons for years.

In a formal challenge dated March 6, the mother wrote that the use of racial slurs and scenes of white people threatening Ruby as she entered a school might result in students learning that white people hate Black people.

The Pinellas County School District has removed the movie until a review committee can assess it. Read more.

Stories of courage during the Civil Rights era are being deleted from our Florida public schools.