Molly Dugan, a teacher in the Kansas City area, recently made a TikTok sharing some of the blurted thoughts she’s heard in her eighth-grade classroom. She’s been keeping track. Students critique her clothing, her love life, point out pimples on her face, once compared her to a dead bug on the floor — and complain about the toilet paper in school.
“Things that my 8th graders have said to me,” she said, introducing the video in a serious, teacher voice. She held a notebook and checked each hysterical, cringey, awkward one-liner off a list after reading them deadpan. “Are you in therapy? You seem like the type.
” “You look like my grandpa’s couch.” “Your pants look like trash bags sewn together. Ha ha.
Trash bag pants.” “I don’t get why you write so much on my rough draft. I’m not reading all that, bruh.
For real for real.” “Fat a** alert.” She paused.
“That one ended up being about me. I was eating some crackers.” She continued.
“Miss Dugan, you don’t want to know what I say about you behind your back or you’d quit your job.” “And finally, how does it feel to be the only unmarried teacher in this school?” “Thank you,” she said, ending the video. As of this week the first TikTok from May 16 has been watched more than 15 million times.
Three follow-up videos have been seen in total more than 5 million times. “It’s so crazy,” Dugan, who just finished her fifth year of teaching, told The Star. “This was my very first vi.
