The Kite Runner is a 2007 movie set in war-torn Afghanistan. It’s rated PG-13, but one scene depicts a young boy being raped by other boys. The scene, while not actually showing the rape, is still graphic in its description.

Nancy Booth said a teacher at Oviedo High School showed the movie to her daughter’s class recently.

“It was too graphic for my child, and I don’t understand what it had to do with her classroom,” said Booth.

School administrators said the movie was shown in several Advanced Placement Human Geography courses at the high school. The courses delve into different cultures around the world.

Booth’s daughter, who is in the ninth grade, described students’ reactions after she said they were given hardly any warning as to what they were about to see.

“We all kind of just looked at each other like ‘did she really just show us this without really explaining what was going to happen?” the student said.

A Seminole County Public Schools spokesperson told News 13 district policy requires anything shown in class to be approved by administration first and then letters are sent home to parents to get their approval if the movie has any content that parents could possibly find questionable.

Administrators said as soon as they got a complaint from a parent, they went to the class and immediately stopped the teacher from showing it.

The district also responded by saying in a statement, “While the teacher was well-meaning in their intent, this wasn’t a film the district, nor the school would be comfortable approving and it will not be shown again in the future.”

“I don’t even want to go back to that class because I view everything so differently now. I don’t want to even learn in there anymore,” said the student.

“We need to be aware of the school system and what the children are watching, because when we send our kids to school, they are supposed to be protected and not have issues come up that distraught a child so bad,” said Booth.

School administrators said they reminded the teacher involved that movies shown to students need to be approved ahead of time.

So far, there’s no word on any specific disciplinary action that will be taken towards the teacher.

