Primary school teacher sacked after teaching pupils TikTok dance

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She was fired after bosses found she had 'condoned' underage use of the social media app.

Georgia Rogers was fired from West Grantham Church of England Primary Academy A primary school teacher has been sacked after she taught pupils as young as nine how to do a TikTok dance. Georgia Rogers had been a teacher at West Grantham Church of England Primary Academy in Grantham, Lincolnshire since 2019. She was fired after bosses found she had ‘condoned’ underage use of the social media app – as children must be at least 13 years of age to use it.

The teacher ‘understood the age grading of TikTok to be aged 13’ – but had taught pupils how to dance a ‘recognised TikTok dance’ and filmed this for them on the pupils’ iPad, the investigation concluded. In being dismissed, Miss Rogers was told: ‘The panel therefore felt that this could be seen as condoning pupils to use a social media site that was not appropriate for 10-year-olds.

 

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