First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers - midwest.social

A bunch of eighth graders in a “wealthy Philadelphia suburb” recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that The New York Times reported was “the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States.” According to The Times, the Great Valley Middle School students created at least 22 fake accounts impersonating about 20 teachers in offensive ways. The fake accounts portrayed long-time, dedicated teachers sharing “pedophilia innuendo, racist memes,” and homophobic posts, as well as posts fabricating “sexual hookups among teachers.”

If my kids did that I’d be perfectly fine with them getting kicked out of school or even press charges. I know teachers can be shitty but this is completely uncalled for unless they were actually doing those things
Because the ends justify the means?
What do you mean with your question? What those students did is slander and mobbing. Those are prosecutable offenses.

slander and mobbing. Those are prosecutable offenses.

No they aren’t. Slander is a civil tort (not criminal / not prosecutable), and “Mobbing” isn’t even a legal term, but to the best of my understanding is synonymous with “assembling”, which is constitutionally protected.

At worst, a student could be sued by a teacher, and these are middle schoolers, so it would be the parents being sued.

Man they bringin RICO against these kids. “Assembling”. Mobbing someone means attacking them as a group. One of the kids is gonna flip and he’s gonna go life the rest of his life in Timbuktu.