- I mean, I, I, I'm a person who does her homework a lot.
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You already know, my teachers out there.
But, it's just too much.
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- Hello, my name is Dylan Jodzik.
I'm 18 years old, I'm a high school senior.
- Hi, my name is Rachel.
I am 18 years old, I'm a senior in high school
and today we are going to react to some TikToks.
- My teacher, Mr Ferroni,
actually is a pretty famous TikToker.
- All my free time, like 90% of the time I'm on TikTok.
I'm not usually on the teacher side
'cause I don't wanna find my teacher, who has a TikTok.
- My students never complete all their homework.
I don't know what to do.
Why are you assigning so much homework?
Why are you overloading these kids with homework?
Let them rest when they get home.
Don't you want to take a nap?
I'm sure they do too.
- For real!
Yeah, I have some teachers that assign so much homework.
Do they realize, like, we have, like,
a life outside of school.
- As a senior, 'senioritis' is a real disease.
Already accepted into college,
why do you guys give me more homework?
We have jobs, I've got sports.
There's other stuff in our life that we wanna do.
- It's just too much.
I don't know why you're assigning homework.
We do it in class anyways.
I'll study, I promise.
(giggles)
- I can get it, at the beginning of the year, you know,
you still have to build credit and stuff for college.
But by the end of the year, like, you know,
now we're in April, May,
just, just why even give us homework?
It's usually like, "Oh, why, homework's not that hard."
Yes, it's not that hard, but I have 10 other classes.
We're staying home anyway, like, it's already homework
even though we're at school, technically.
- Hey, why were you absent yesterday?
- [Student] I was at a funeral.
- Oh, I am so sorry for your loss
- [Student] It's okay I didn't really like the man.
- Oh my gosh.
(giggling)
- Aah, that's really funny.
- I don't know how to comment on that one.
I've definitely had that excuse where I was, like,
"I'm sick" but I'm really not.
I just wanna sleep in.
Right now with, like, virtual learning
I can't really fake being sick
or I can't really fake being anywhere,
cause they know I'm at home.
- I mean, you go to funerals all the time.
Sometimes for people that you don't know
and at least the teacher took it well,
she wasn't mad or anything.
I'm sure she hears stuff like that all the time.
- Good morning students,
welcome to another day of online class.
(crosstalk)
So today we're going to get back into chapter six.
Is there going to any questions about biomathematics?
- Oh my gosh.
(laughing)
- That's my teacher,
Mr. Feronni.
- That's my teacher,
Mr Feronni.
- I promise you,
He does not dress like that.
That's not even the right room he's in,
he's lying when he makes these tiktoks.
It's really funny,
like, when he tries to make tiktoks
in class and you volunteer to participate
in it and it was like, he'll be like 'Okay, that was good.'
but he'll be lying to you because he knows it wasn't good.
But I promise you, Mr. Feronni
is never wearing shorts
and he's never wearing a suit jacket,
but he's always happy to teach us.
And I'm glad to have him as a teacher.
- I remember one time in class,
he was testing to see who was paying attention.
He would turn off his camera and be like
my connection is not working and he turned it
on and he has a completely different shirt on it.
Ended up being like, he changed his shirt like 11 times.
And he was like, nobody noticed it.
I'm paying attention to the lesson.
Not what you're wearing.
(laughing)
- All right guys.
That's it for today.
Just make sure you complete your assignment.
It's so great to see you guys.
Have a great day
and I'll see you soon.
- Awh, this one was kind of sad.
- Yeah. I started to notice
like there was one time I stayed behind just to try to talk
to my teacher about something and
as like all the cameras are going off.
I think that teacher thought I left.
So like I just saw the teacher like, like 'I'm done.'
I had to like unmute myself, 'I'm still here.
I'm really sorry.'
And he's like, 'Oh no, no, no, no, no.
That's fine. I'm okay.'
But I think I feel you.
I think I feel the teachers.
- I know Mr Feronni is being truthfully honest
because I've seen the days when his Chromebooks acting up
and stuff and he's just like so upset and so angry.
And my other teachers too, like they're not getting what
they signed up for to be a teacher.
You know, people got to think of the teachers too.
I mean, if you think about it, this is, this is their life.
(laughing)
I've had them in class, in person and they just
have so much more energy and so much more like bedazzle.
And it's just like,
you can't convey that over the screen the same way.
- Yo, Mr. Feronni..
- Do I know you?
- Junior your student
for the last hundred days?
- Honestly, doesn't ring a bell.
- Okay. How about now?
- Oh my God.
Junior. What's up?
- All right.
That's what I mean when Mr. Feronni
is always making us do tiktoks.
I guarantee you that took them 30 minutes to make.
I went to hybrid school and half
of my teachers didn't know who I was.
You know, I don't blame them
because I'm not really good with names myself.
- I have terrible eyesight.
I'm going to pause it so I can read it.
(reading the text on the screen)
- Yeah, I mean..
- Yeah, that's crazy.
It's like when you're a kid
and you see your teacher at the grocery store,
it's like, changes your whole view on life.
- As a student,
if I go to my teacher, I'll just be like, I will never
see you other than who you are in front of me.
If you tell me you like the same music as me, like cool.
But also that's weird
- I'm going to give these out in
every class in case I start talking too much.
It's only fair.
All right.
So I'll give it out and you give it
to me and tell me you think I'm talking too much.
We'll start with junior,
So here you go.
Give it to me anytime I'm talking to much all right?
Are you serious?
- This is actually the tiktok, same tiktok idea
that he made me film,
but I never sent him and I'm still sitting on it.
God, I shouldn't be saying this.
They're going to watch this.
Like sometimes, you know
if my teachers are teaching a lesson
and I already know the lesson, or I just don't feel
like paying attention, I will mute them.
I'll, I'll put the computer on mute.
And it's a little scary because what
if they call your name?
In real life it's harder to mute someone.
The old fashioned way is just falling asleep.
- I, I seen the button in the classroom.
I've seen it on the table and I'm very tempted to take it.
That button on zoom, oh my, that end button
or like leave button.
So tempting, sometimes who like I like hover around it
in class.
Like I'll like, I'm like, I'm going to touch it
but I'm not going to touch it.
I think he's told us this before.
I'm pretty sure America is going to be at the bottom.
- Teachers. I feel like are super underpaid.
Some kids spend most of their day with their teachers.
And you know, if you have sports and stuff,
that's coaches too, who are usually also teachers.
When we were actually going to school
like you go to your,
you go to school and you're there for like six, eight hours.
You go home, you're home alone for a little bit.
Your parents get home late.
You're with your teacher more than your parents sometimes.
And you know,
I feel like they're just not appreciated enough in society.
People don't give them as much credit as they deserve.
Like, I can name you like a bunch
of good teachers I've had that have just like
changed my life and made me the person I am today.
We love teachers.
- That's the one thing I really started appreciating
during COVID and virtual and hybrid learning.
Like teachers really do so much and they sacrifice so much.
And like they're essentially essential workers.
So we should like treating them like that.
- I know some teachers who have like second jobs
and it's, it's, I'm not gonna, you know,
I'm not going to call them sad
or anything, but like a lot of teachers put in way more work
than they need to just to make sure they're the best
that they can be.
And it's just sad to see like such a important
job be so undervalued and so unappreciated.
- And a lot of teachers, most of my teachers
not even just only Feronni, a lot
of my teachers have gotten me through this year.
So, you know,
even when you feel a little bummy,
fix that hair, comb your hair a little bit,
take off the hoodie, you know
get out of bed, like at least like show your face
or answer a question in class, for like five minutes
or just one moment so that you can tell you too
like 'I'm listening, I'm there for you.'
You know.
- If you're a teacher watching this, get tiktok
if you're not on it, you know, it's a funny thing.
It's wholesome.
Cause it just shows like, you know,
they're down to try to connect with their students
and show how they really are and be funny.
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