North Carolina high school students have had their mirror privileges revoked after they spent too much time in the school bathroom filming a TikTok video.
The Alamance-Burlington School System announced this week that Southern Alamance High School had to remove restroom mirrors to reduce disruption.
Some students were caught skipping class and visiting the bathroom up to nine times a day.
“Students go to the bathroom for long periods of time and make TikTok videos,” Les Atkins, public relations officer for the school system, told WFMY.
The mirror, Atkins explained, featured heavily in videos high school students shot for the app.
Despite the atypical punishment, the penalty seems to have worked.
“Not as many visits to the bathroom, not staying that long and students being held accountable and then when there’s accountability you see a big difference,” Atkins said.
The Alamance-Burlington School System announced this week that Southern Alamance High School had to remove restroom mirrors to reduce disruption. WFMY News 2/YouTube The mirror is featured heavily in videos high school students shoot for the app. Shutterstock
The school district has also implemented a digital hall pass system, which will allow students to check in and out of class — allowing schools to track how much time students spend outside the classroom.
The “adjustment” is just another step toward the district’s new goal of teaching kids about so-called “digital citizenship.”
“We try to educate students: we all have mobile phones now. We have to learn to use it. We have to learn when to put it down,” Atkins said.
The crackdown comes just months after some US tech experts warned that Gen Z would become increasingly addicted and dependent on TikTok.
The “adjustment” is just another step toward the district’s new goal of teaching kids about so-called “digital citizenship.” WFMY News 2/YouTube
The mindless scrolling associated with social media apps will develop into a dependency, they say.
Montana became the first state to ban the apps last year, claiming they were protecting their citizens from “the surveillance of the Chinese Communist Party.”
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