Teacher fired after joking about dropping \u201cmilky farts\u201d on students in TikTok videos TikTok: formerlyfatstephen\u2018formerlyfatstephen,\u2019 a TikTok comedian who was working as a school teacher, joked about dropping \u201cbig milky farts\u201d on his students and was subsequently fired from his job due to videos he posted to social media. TikTok\u2018s rise as a social media platform has spawned its fair share of bizarre stories in the relatively short time since its taken off as the quintessential short-form video platform. However, one teacher who decided to turn his exploits as a teacher into TikTok comedy wound up getting reported to staff at the school he worked for. After getting in trouble with administation, he was fired from his job. This was mostly due to a TikTok in which he joked about \u201ccropdusting\u201d his students with \u201cbig milky farts\u201d. TikTok teacher fired over \u201cbig milky\u201d fart jokes Stephen, a TikToker, former teacher & stand-up comedian got in trouble with administration at the school he used to teach at due to videos he posted to TikTok. He deleted the original video during the HR investigation from his school, but has since reposted it with the background removed. \u201cI crop dust them all the time.\u201d Stephen claimed. \u201cI save up big, milky, lactose-intolerant farts and I drop bombs silently because I\u2019m an adult and I know my body. And then I just let it stew and go, \u2018Oh my god, it stinks over there.\u2019 And then they have to sit with it. And you know what? They can\u2019t fire me because they need me too badly.\u201d Unfortunately for Stephen, that last part would turn out not to be true. He posted a TikTok a week after the original video went live about his milky farts, and he had an additional video joking about his students doing drugs that he also claimed was part of HR\u2019s investigation. According to Stephen, he was served a printed-out transcription of his videos. While this TikTok comedian said this experience taught him that he should be \u201ca little more careful\u201d when it comes to what and where he posts, he also thought it ridiculous that the school board took his videos seriously. This led to Stephen tossing away his ability to cash in on unemployment benefits by explaining the terms of the NDA he could have signed. \u201cIf I resign, they give me the benefit of not trying to take away my unemployment benefits. But they also swear me to secrecy, confidentiality, and that I cannot disparage them. All of that, they said they\u2019ll give me $5,000 if I just won\u2019t do those two things.\u201d Stephen claimed. He continued, \u201cAnd you know what? That just doesn\u2019t feel like that much fun to me. If they want to make the decision to get rid of a good teacher during a teacher shortage, I\u2019m not gonna be the one to do it for them. I didn\u2019t want to quit on my students, I love my students.\u201d Stephen concluded by saying he doesn\u2019t want to take \u201chush money\u201d and told the board to \u201cf***ing fire me.\u201d TikTok teacher fights back against his school district This led to Stephen speaking before the board of education for his school district, claiming that he was a teacher who had \u201cincredible evaluations from administration, great reputation with students, and who cares deeply about their success,\u201d and that firing him wasn\u2019t the choice of the students. He then went on to talk about how he personally supplied and started a gaming club and a music club, as well as using grant money to build an animation studio with a recording booth. Stephen painted himself as an individual who wanted the best for his students. \u201cThe number one thing I taught my students is to ask questions, because I want them to be curious and not compliant, because I want to raise a generation of informed citizens instead of child soldiers.\u201d This led to Stephen questioning why he couldn\u2019t post TikToks joking about his students, saying that he refused to fold to the school district asking him to delete his videos. \u201cI was given two options: Resign or be terminated. Resigning would look better for my future, but it didn\u2019t feel good for my present. Because I don\u2019t want to quit on my students, I never wanted to. But this district doesn\u2019t seem to care about that.\u201d Stephen concluded his speech by directly calling out the school district. \u201cIf the students were the priority in this district, then the problematic people I have seen go before me would have been fired instead of me. But we know the truth, and it\u2019s that the priority here isn\u2019t the students. It is silence.\u201d TikTok users in his comments rallied behind him, saying that his speech was fantastic and that he\u2019s \u201cmeant for better things.\u201d Stephen is now pursuing stand-up comedy full-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teacher fired after joking about dropping \u201cmilky farts\u201d on students in TikTok videos TikTok: formerlyfatstephen\u2018formerlyfatstephen,\u2019 a TikTok comedian who was working as a school teacher, joked about dropping \u201cbig milky farts\u201d on his students and was subsequently fired from his job due to videos he posted to social media. TikTok\u2018s rise as a social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}