Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Black teacher, JaQ Lee Thilluminatin1, crying while reading email text messages from his young female students after being sacked over taking out his braided hairs in class trending video.
Jaq Lee has social media users riled up after sharing a video of his #students taking out his braids. He first shared the interaction with his female students during a #livestream last week Friday (May 3).
Earlier this week, he addressed the mixed feedback, which includes accusations of inappropriateness.
The livestream showed female students using combs and fingers to remove their teacher’s braids. It seemingly started with two girls, then progressed to about five max.
The science teacher explained that he had a hair appointment after school and asked four to five of his “best friends” to help with his braids during the last 10 minutes before dismissal.
So, why didn’t he take it out the night before? Jaq said the school had an event that Friday morning, which required him to be camera-ready. As for why the students weren’t “working,” Lee said he had given them some free time because of their great performance throughout the week.
Some of the girls who helped with his hair were from his class, while others got excused from other classes. However, that only applied to students who had completed all their work and had “good behavior” in those other classes.
“My next point I’d like to make is if I was a female teacher, those people wouldn’t be in the comments saying, ‘Oh, this is weird, this is inappropriate.’ Because me personally, I know think there’s anything weird about this. People are saying,
‘That’s too intimate.’ To me, it’s literally just hair. It doesn’t have to be weird. Some people have never had cool teachers, and it shows.”
Beyond the braids, Jaq Lee explained that part of being an “effective” teacher is building “authentic relationships” with his students. He aims to make them feel he cares about them beyond the schoolwork.
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