A North Carolina middle school recently decided to battle students’ addiction to TikTok by removing the mirrors in the bathrooms.
Wait. Are they middle schoolers or vampires?
The Alamance-Burlington School System made the move to discourage students from leaving class to film videos for the social media platform.
“Students were going to the bathroom for long periods of time and making TikTok videos,” Les Atkins, the public relations officer for the district, told TV station WFMY.
It’s working, however odd the move may seem on the surface. Visits to the bathrooms are down. The district also put in place digital hall passes, so they can track how long students are away from class each day.
It’s part of a push to educated students on what the district is calling ‘digital citizenship.’
“We all have cell phones now,” Atkins said in in the interview with WFMY. “We have to learn to use them. We have to learn when to put them down.”
