North Carolina School Removes Bathroom Mirrors After Students Left Classes to Record TikTok Videos
“We strive to limit distractions so students can focus on learning”
TikTok is spyware from China. It shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near our schools. Lots of colleges have already banned it.
FOX News reports:
North Carolina school ditches bathroom mirrors to prevent students from recording TikTok videos during class
A North Carolina middle school reportedly has decided to remove its bathroom mirrors, noting an uptick in students missing valuable class time to record TikTok videos in the lavatories.
“Students were going to the bathroom for long periods of time and making TikTok,” Alamance-Burlington School System spokesperson Les Atkins told WFMY, explaining that Southern Alamance Middle School in Graham, North Carolina, resorted to removing bathroom mirrors to eliminate the distraction.
The school system said that on average, students use the restroom between three to four times a day, but that frequency has steadily increased to between seven, eight and nine times a day. Since removing the mirrors, Atkins explained, the school has seen, “not as many visits to the bathroom, not staying as long, and students are held accountable, and when there’s accountability, you see a great difference.”
Atkins explained the school system is trying to educate students on “digital citizenship.”
“We’re trying to educate students. Like we all have cell phones now. We have to learn to use them. We have to learn when to put them down,” he told WFMY. The school is also implementing Smart Pass, a digital hall pass system which officials say allows students to check in and out of class. It’s intended to enable staff to better track where students are at all times for safety and accountability reasons, according to school leadership.
“We strive to limit distractions so students can focus on learning,” Southern Alamance Middle School said in a letter to parents, according to WTVD. “Though this is an adjustment, we believe these changes will foster a better learning environment by minimizing disruptions.”
According to WXII, school officials said the digital hall pass system comes at no extra cost since it’s part of existing software the school and district already had at their disposal.
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Although it’s been a few decades since middle or high school I don’t ever remember using the bathroom more than once a day and that was between classes
My thoughts as well, and I had no desire to hang out in the bathrooms.
America’s schools are not healthy for children and other living things.
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Some other things that your kid could learn as a teen.
(If you help make the time for it, instead of bathroom tic tic):
1. Learn another language
2. Partner dancing (girls like to dance, still, yes?)
3. Physical fitness
Weight training
Real cardio
Cycling, skiing, climbing
4. Handyman skills (pay a handyman to let your kid “intern” with him. If your kid is reasonably mature, it should be a win-win
– or any other trade – dry wall, painting, roofing, use your imagination
5. Work for money
There’s a big world out there. Just waiting to be explored and experienced.
“Life’s a big banquet, Patrick, but most poor soils are starving.” — Auntie Mame
“Since removing the mirrors, Atkins explained, the school has seen, “not as many visits to the bathroom, not staying as long, and students are held accountable, and when there’s accountability, you see a great difference.”
SHM.
“Mirror control.”
More “deprive the innocent to deter the guilty (and fail).”
“TikTok is spyware from China. It shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near our schools. Lots of colleges have already banned it.”
How do you “ban an app?” (Illegal) cell signal scramblers?
This is like banning Victoria’s Secret underwear in school. How do you enforce it? How do you even know it’s being violated?
Let’s be consistent in our principles.
“TikTok doesn’t beclown kids… kids beclown themselves.”
Cuz mirrors are definitely the problem.
Sorry, fatfingered a downvote instead of an upvote.
How do the mirrors help them make tiktok videos? How does removing them prevent them from doing so?
I had thought middle school bathrooms were for smoking
Who knew from tikky takky