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Teacher sacked for teaching a TikTok dance

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mammabing · 21/04/2024 20:01

Posting here as I’m interested to hear other people’s thoughts on this.

https://apple.news/AmOGKR_ELSLqutPF2Sv4saA

I get that if she knew they had accounts she should have reported it but surely it’s the parents who are responsible for any social media their child has? A lot of the dances on TikTok are innocent enough so why should she lose her job? Surely further safeguarding training would suffice?
Also I thought the content itself wasn’t age restricted, just signing up to the site?

YABU - she should be sacked
YANBU - she should have kept her job

Primary school teacher sacked after teaching her class a TikTok dance — Metro

She was fired after bosses found she had 'condoned' underage use of the social media app.

https://apple.news/AmOGKR_ELSLqutPF2Sv4saA

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mammabing · 21/04/2024 20:26

Interesting you say that about PGCE student not failing Greywitch2
We had a PGCE student working in our school who was reported as they had replied to a student in their class via social
media. The university did nothing, not even a warning, however our school suspended them with immediate effect so they technically failed the placement.
Thankfully they dropped off the course as the university let them continue.

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Greywitch2 · 21/04/2024 20:18

It's interesting that it was 2021, and she'd been there since Sept 2019 - which suggests that she was probably very inexperienced in a classroom, particularly when you factor Covid into the situation. The school will have closed 6 months after she arrived and I wonder if she was just qualified. I do wonder how much training in safeguarding or proper teaching experience she'd had altogether. Covid didn't just affect kids, it also interrupted teacher training/ECT teachers being properly supervised and getting the help they needed.

I know many, many teachers are also saying that there is such a recruitment shortage now that it's just about impossible to 'fail' a PGCE student, however dire they are and that doesn't surprise me.

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mammabing · 21/04/2024 20:17

Oh wow, that makes a lot more sense

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Simonjt · 21/04/2024 20:14

Other articles report she told at least one child via classdojo that she loved them, which really isn’t appropriate

TequilaNights · 21/04/2024 20:10

Quotes from

The hearing was told that after the summer holidays, it then emerged that Miss Rogers had also been sending 'borderline unprofessional' messages to one of her students and her mother through Dojo, an online platform used by the school.

Included in the extensive messages was Miss Rogers sending the pupil a photo of her nails and telling her mum 'Bless her, I just love her' and 'Send her my love'.

EJ Butler said: 'She referred to [the pupil] as 'sweetheart' and did nothing to discourage the communication which she knew came directly from the pupil as well as her mum.'

Soon after these messages 'came to light' in September, the teacher was suspended.

An investigation ensued where a number of 'allegations' were investigated by the school.

Teacher 'sacked for teaching pupils TikTok dance', tribunal hears

Georgia Rogers was fired after bosses at West Grantham Church of England Primary Academy in Grantham found she had 'condoned' under-age students using the social media site.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327263/Primary-school-teacher-TikTok-dance-sacked.html

Geebray · 21/04/2024 20:09

Stories like this are always more than they seem/we know.

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/04/2024 20:09

I think it's probably an Al Capone tax type of thing. They knew they could get rid for this, so they did but there was a lot more.

skipit8103 · 21/04/2024 20:08

the devil is in the detail

and i suspect if we were to know the full story - there would be a lot more to it

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mammabing · 21/04/2024 20:07

skipit8103 · 21/04/2024 20:04

and an investigation into her conduct found ‘a number of small things which put together make a bigger concerning picture’.

It’s interesting that those things aren’t reported though. But I guess potentially valid reasons for firing someone wouldn’t make an interesting news story 😂

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WaitingForMojo · 21/04/2024 20:06

skipit8103 · 21/04/2024 20:04

and an investigation into her conduct found ‘a number of small things which put together make a bigger concerning picture’.

This makes more sense.

There are a LOT of bigger issues in education though, imo

WaitingForMojo · 21/04/2024 20:05

Personally, I think this is insane. In my DD’s class, in year 5, she was the only one who didn’t have TikTok.

skipit8103 · 21/04/2024 20:04

and an investigation into her conduct found ‘a number of small things which put together make a bigger concerning picture’.