US students target teachers in group TikTok attack, shaking their school

Nikki Salvatico, president of the local teachers’ union, in Malvern, Pa., May 30, 2024. Seventh and eighth graders in the suburb of greater Philadelphia impersonated their teachers on TikTok and posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos — the first known mass attack of its kind in the US. — The New York Times

MALVERN, Pennsylvania: In February, Patrice Motz, a veteran Spanish teacher at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, was warned by another teacher that trouble was brewing.

Some eighth graders at her public school had set up TikTok accounts impersonating teachers. Motz, who had never used TikTok, created an account.