Emily Chan
School is a place that shapes young minds and provides students with a plethora of knowledge. However, within these institutions lies the prevalent problem of bullying, which negatively affects our youth.
Usually, the perpetrators are other students. But in the classroom, students aren’t the only ones who can be bullies. Some teachers can also leave damaging impressions, targeting an individual or a group of students and abusing their power as authority figures and educators.
TikToker Rebecca Rogers (@rrogersworld) is sharing a reenactment of a teacher confronting another teacher who bullied a misbehaving student by scaring that student into submission.
The video starts with Rebecca playing both teachers’ parts. She is shown walking into the classroom of a teacher named Mr. Smith.
“Did you tell Connor that the lunch detention room had man-eating cockroaches in it?” she asked him in disbelief.
Mr. Smith chuckled and admitted that he did, claiming that it was an effective way to keep Connor out of trouble. Rebecca informed Mr. Smith that Connor had shown up in her classroom crying because he was so afraid.
“Call it a life lesson. He’ll either behave for once in his life, or he won’t believe everything he hears next time,” responded Mr. Smith.
Rebecca told him that what he did wasn’t appropriate, which caused Mr. Smith to scoff and roll his eyes since he didn’t see the situation as a big deal.
In the next scene, Mr. Smith can be seen entering Rebecca’s classroom, asking if she had complained about him to the principal.
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