A trainer who went viral for letting college students play in his hair has been fired. The trainer, who goes by JaQ Lee and @thilluminator on TikTok, was let go on Friday.
He went viral after he posted a TikTok video that confirmed teenage women fixing his hair.
Lee confronted backlash for permitting the women to play in his hair throughout faculty hours. Many individuals mentioned he was improper for letting the women violate the teacher-student boundaries.
However Lee defended himself, saying the scholars have been serving to him prepare for his subsequent hair appointment.
“I didn’t have time to do all of it on my own as a result of it might’ve taken me eternally, so naturally I requested about 4 or 5 of over 100 finest buddies to help me in taking my hair out, and so they all agreed,” Lee mentioned.
Lee is a content material creator on TikTok who usually data himself in his classroom when he’s presupposed to be educating.
@thilluminatin1 College students don’t care how a lot you recognize till they know the way a lot you care. Educating is a piece of coronary heart. Remark your ideas #trainer #teachersoftiktok #teacherproblems #millenialsoftiktok #middleschool ? Chopin Nocturne No.2 Op.9-2(1391533) – 314P
Not surprisingly, the scholars and their mother and father defended his inappropriate habits. Amongst these additionally defending Lee are rapper Cardi B and educator Arnetta Murray.
Within the video beneath, Ms. Murray appeared as a visitor on Fox Information’ “The Issue Uncensored”. She mentioned Lee was merely “bonding” together with his college students. “He’s constructing a relationship.”
Lee instructed his followers that he obtained permission from the scholars’ mother and father to type his hair on digital camera.
However he has posted different questionable movies on his social media accounts. In one other video, classmates bully a lady and name her “fats”.
After questioning the woman and telling her she has an enormous mouth, Lee says the bullying in his classroom is “none of my enterprise.”
Right here’s one other considered one of him letting college students fatphobic, filming it & then posting it on Tik tok pic.twitter.com/eBJigMzQ1K
— ?The Inflammatory Fats? (@blackfatqueer) Might 10, 2024
One other video reveals Lee admiring a feminine pupil’s property. That video remains to be energetic on his Instagram web page.
In a current video since his termination, Lee cries whereas studying a textual content message from a 14-year-old woman who refers to him as her “bestie.”
@thilluminatin1 #trainer ? Unhappy and unhappy guitar(1102575) – syummacha
Males on a Manosphere message board had combined reactions to the controversy.
One man wrote: “He’s in all probability residing his second childhood attempting to be the favored man within the faculty.”
Different males mentioned Lee’s habits is problematic as a result of highschool women are in that awkward section between adolescence and womanhood.
“We’re MEN. We react to bodily contact and stimuli. We are able to’t assist that even when we needed to,” one man wrote.
One other man wrote:
“People assume it’s all ‘cute and harmless’ that he’s giving these women dap, however what’s actually occurring is he’s doing little issues to make himself a peer of those women to the place of their thoughts he’s ‘the homie’ as an alternative of the trainer.”
He continued:
“As soon as they acquired the mindset of him being massive homie, that’s after they begin being snug and decreasing their shields, which begins off with stuff like portray his nails and braiding his hair. He’s massive homie, to allow them to open up to him and chat with him. Now that they’re snug with touching him, if he decides to the touch again, they received’t be creeped out as a result of he isn’t the older trainer who must respect his boundaries.”
Different males wrote:
“Realistically, women don’t play within the hair of dudes they discover ugly All of that hair combing/braiding without spending a dime is a manner for them to be round and get their arms on a dude they discover engaging.”
“Only for the optics causes alone, you don’t do that. He might not have any in poor health intentions, however you don’t set your self up like this and as a guardian, you don’t let this go on as a result of somebody who might have in poor health intentions goes to attempt to slip underneath this banner. Additionally, all that has to occur is he has a falling out with considered one of these women as a result of they’re performing out in school and he goes to self-discipline her and she or he lobs an accusation at him.”