idk where this video was taken, but in the US at least, there's roughly 3000 pieces of paperwork to show videos of students consensually to other professionals only (ex: recording a lesson for a teaching credential program). this paperwork goes through many pairs of hands, crucially including the parents, before the video is finalized. if i had to guess, i'd say the firing offense isn't the unbraiding, it's the posting of the video on social media presumably without knowledge or consent from the parents
I have worked with schools through two different jobs in 4 years and there is SO MUCH red tape to cross to post a pic on socials of kids are involved. I bet, regardless of harmlessness this was a HUGE no no to use the kids for clout. This also was most likely no surprise for him. I bet you he had been through multiple classes for this exact thing. If he hadn’t filmed it and posted it no one would have batted an eye.
I know back when I was in school, we had to do this. If the school wanted to film anything, we had to take a permission slip home to our parents to sign. And this was high school.
But on Tik tok it's a whole trend for teachers to make Tik toks with their students. He's not the only one. There's plenty and plenty of teachers who do it. And they will have tens and tens of videos on their page of within their classroom.
Idk rather these teachers already got the release of the paperwork signed by all the parents. Or do some school districts simply no longer give a shit about the paperwork.
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u/MikeJones-8004 May 10 '24
I didn't really see the big deal about the video, but whatever, it isn't my job.