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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/ProfessionalDepth995 on 2023-09-26 14:50:33.
My son is a 6th grader and his math teacher uses a lot of videos. They did a class project on geometry where groups of students did shorts on geometry and they watched it and the teacher posted it on his school website and his tiktok.
I understand social media is popular with kids and it’s not going anywhere so you might as well try to moderate it like junk food but I began to wonder if this was a personal project for the teacher rather than a class project. I would probably be okay if this was strictly a class thing if my son was okay.
After wrestling with it, I spoke to my son and said I’m fine with you being in class videos but I’m not okay with you being on Mr. J’s personal tiktok page without my permission. My son said that he told Mr. J it was okay. That made me laugh. I said you can’t even be trusted to shower every day let alone decide when you can appear on someone’s tiktok page.
So I sent an email to Mr. J telling him what I thought and my stance. He replied that I gave consent when I signed his classroom agreement that he uses videos and pictures of his students and no parent has ever complained. Plus his tiktok page is also his “class” tiktok page because “you realize no one watches YouTube since 2017.” He said he’s not hiding anything and this is what teachers do to make dense subject material interesting. Then he thanked me for being a concerned “Daddy” as a backhanded insult.
I replied that none of my son’s other five teachers is doing what he’s doing and probably because they don’t have time to play on TikTok. But that’s okay. I expect my son to be a math whiz and we will check in later.