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Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The middle schoolers’ attack also reflects broader concerns in schools about how students’ use, and abuse, of popular online tools is intruding on the classroom.

    Some states and districts have recently restricted or banned student cellphone use in schools, in part to limit peer harassment and cyberbullying on Instagram, Snap, TikTok and other apps.

    Last month, two female students at the school publicly posted an “apology” video on a TikTok account using the name of a seventh-grade teacher as a handle.

    Great Valley Middle School, known locally as a close-knit community, serves about 1,100 students in a modern brick complex surrounded by a sea of bright green sports fields.

    A few days after learning of the videos, Edward Souders, the principal of Great Valley Middle School, emailed the parents of eighth graders, describing the impostor accounts as portraying “our teachers in a disrespectful manner.”

    On Friday, after a Times reporter asked the school district to notify parents about this article, the students deleted the “apology” video and removed the teacher’s handle from their account.

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    • EmperorHenry@infosec.pubEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Last month, two female students at the school publicly posted an “apology” video on a TikTok account using the name of a seventh-grade teacher as a handle.

      99% of the teachers who would be “attacked” in such a way are probably all child abusers anyway.

      A few days after learning of the videos, Edward Souders, the principal of Great Valley Middle School, emailed the parents of eighth graders, describing the impostor accounts as portraying “our teachers in a disrespectful manner.”

      Oh no! They were “disrespected”. They berate students and scream at them for all kinds of stupid personal, unprofessional reasons, but oh no! They’re being “disrespected”!

      How will they ever recover from someone impersonating them online!? Some of those accounts might’ve even gotten a small amount of attention on an enormous platform like tiktok

      Every teacher I ever had when I was in school only ever made the respect go one way. There was never any respect from the teacher toward the students.