Did any moms see the viral post with the teacher letting his female students take his braids out in the classroom ?
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It’s already a controversial thing with male teachers, I really wish that teacher thought throughly of his actions.
@FairyMother oh thank God if that’s true. So with that being said why’d he get fired if he informed parents and having consent forms…
@Tee I'm not fully up to date on the firing, I've heard about it but haven't seen any videos yet. I'm guessing it could be the type of thing where something goes viral and the establishment doesn't like the attention it's getting and so they fire the employee. It happens a lot on tiktok with fast food workers and retail workers.
@FairyMother makes sense
It actually upsets me that people are sceptical about male teachers (going a lil off topic here) but when I was at university, some of the best people in my group were men. But the thing is, nobody bats an eye if children play with a female teacher's hair. Assuming this male has been fully checked, there's no reason to assume he's done wrong. But the world doesn't see it that way 🤷🏼♀️
I think using children for content is wrong. I don’t care if parents signed a form or not. There are tons of parents out here running family vlogs using their kids as content which I also think is wrong. I wouldn’t ever have students do my hair and I wouldn’t allow my child to do their teacher’s hair. I do think there is an expectation from some parents that teachers should be robots, but teachers who are robots get attacked for being unfeeling/uncaring as well. I worry if he was/is in education for the wrong reasons. There are tons of ways to work with kids, maybe classroom teaching isn’t his way.
@Charlie I agree with you. I just think because there’s a controversy thing about male teachers he should’ve been a little more conscious of his actions.
@Dana bingo ! Even being actively involved with parents if you want to be that loving towards students.
@Alex I see your point…
@Dana I agree that children shouldn't be used for content but I don't agree with the controversy around male teachers. As long as they've had the education and pass the checks, people should be given a chance
I can’t even. As a female teacher, I would never let a student touch my hair. Or get anywhere near that close to me at all. If a younger kid is crying I’ll ask for consent to put a hand in their shoulder or a one armed 2 second squeeze but anything else is entirely off limits. It crosses a boundary imo
@Daisy I worked in a preschool so the kids are 3-5 and my colleagues used to let the kids brush their hair and play with their hair. I have issues with my scalp and have major anxiety surrounding people touching my hair/head so I never let the kids do it and they used to say to me that I was in the wrong for not letting kids do my hair 🤦🏼♀️ But in my nursery now, we're allowed to pick the kids up and hug them if they want us to. I think it's different if you're a teacher rather than a preschool worker.
@Daisy yup ! Plus as human beings on a spiritual point of view everything of the world (what’s in like tik tok) isn’t good to partake in. We simply have to remember morals.
@Charlie I disagree that nobody bats an eye if kids touch a female teachers hair. I don’t want my child touching any teacher’s hair. My child isn’t going to complete free labor of doing their teacher’s hair for them, male or female.
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Ya’ll I just asked my ten year old son about this. He literally laughed and said that’s weird how are the kids even learning ….
The school (elementary) I work for does photo consent forms for social media, etc at the start of the year. Parents can withdraw that consent at any point.
@Charlie yeah I’m secondary 11-18 so it’s an absolute no go for me
@Cydney does that consent form include private social media accounts of teachers? Mine does not.
@Dana I think it's different where I work because of the age of the children. The kids I work with are all preschool age and when they say "do hair" it's usually with cheap plastic brushes and accessories for dolls so I wouldn't consider it child labour. Now I've not seen the video in question and don't know what this guy did or didn't do but I've already decided my children will not be allowed on social media and the school they end up going to will be fully aware of that.
Yes I seen that
@Dana it’s teachers’ social media yes, as it isn’t uncommon for teachers to share happenings in the classroom. However most teachers I know don’t share student faces/voices even with the consent.
That's so weird to me. I'm side eyeing the teacher like wtf
Same! Even thou they said he got permission from the parents I personally ain’t sending my child to school to take out no teachers hair..
@Charlie I think moms that don’t agree with the conduct of the teacher is probably a reason being why you don’t want your children on social media…
Shoot my kids don’t even like taking out their own hairs when it’s time too.
@Tee yessss agreed!
@MrsBailey its just a level of weirdness lol if I heard my daughter taking her male teachers braids out his head I’m coming up to the school lol
@Tee exactly lol all hands on deck then…especially if I seen that you post my kid in social media…
@MrsBailey exactly ! Like I totally get that we’re in a day of age where things are faithfully taken to social media for many reasons but I mean come on not only are the kids faces exposed they just standing there playing in dudes hair. What were the other students doing while that was happening???
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As a former teacher (who taught high school), I never recorded or took pictures of my students and posted them. If my students took pictures with me and posted themselves, that's fine. I taught seniors my first two years teaching and the majority of those kids were 18, but even still, I never posted photos of them! Just felt like crossing a boundary.
@Tee tbh the reason I don't want my child to be on public social media is because of some family issues I have and also because I have done a lot of safeguarding stuff surrounding online safety and it scares me how much potential danger can come from strangers being able to identify children. It's a personal choice so I can protect my child
@Charlie yup and that alone is a point why that teacher seemed to cross the line
@Tee yeah I agree he crossed the line by posting it to his own personal account. I'm sure the actual activity wasn't too bad because I've seen young children play with adults hair at work a lot but as I said, I didn't see that specific video is not sure what actually happened 😅 I just wanted to chip in that I hate the stigma around male teachers because some of them are actually decent. And I've been seeing a lot around me on female childcare providers being arrested for many things so either way it's scary
@Charlie I definitely understand, I also hate the stigma with male teachers because at the end of the day they are highly needed in all levels of schooling (that’s for another topic lol). I’m not all the way involved in the post with this teacher. But the main post I seen with the girls (they looked to be in middle or high school) taking his hair out just seemed a little discomforting on many levels and I’m definitely not discrediting teachers posting on social media however that particular video was not appropriate in my opinion
So some more context this specific teacher has a now deleted video “shooting his shot” at a 16 year old. And he’s been fired. So where there’s smoke there’s fire. These small almost “insignificant” boundary become the stepping stones to all the teachers caught messing with students. There’s just some lines that shouldn’t be crossed by adults in a position of power.
@Khyia I saw that video too !!! That’s another reason why I posted my post. I saw it like omg but then I was like nah this can’t be true somebody must’ve A i it lmao no way smh I also thought too because he’s been posting so much content with these kids this situation was bound to happen to him, I agree with you. It was just a tad bit too much. There’s also another video of him “crying” reading text messages from his students…… :/
To my knowledge the parents are informed about the social media aspect of his teaching and they've signed consent forms. Not sure how that could be fact checked but that's the information I've seen.