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“All the kids have been buzzing,” said Cooper, who teaches International Baccalaureate chemistry at Assumption College Catholic High School. “It’s just going crazy.”
Originally posted Jan. 20, the song choice for the video is the 2011 hit What Makes You Beautiful by the boy band One Direction.
One by one, a dozen students in Cooper’s virtual class took turns with the song’s lyrics.
Cooper said the class agreed on the song — but she has a couple One Direction super fans among her students.
“There’s a big following of One Direction on TikTok,” Cooper explained. “It’s hard, with varying music tastes, to find songs that everyone can agree on. But ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ was really popular, so all my students know it.”
Cooper said she originally started holding class karaoke “Brain Breaks” when in-person education was allowed — intended as a way to alleviate the monotony of four-hour sessions under the modified schedule.
“The quadmester setup has been really difficult,” Cooper said. “Four hours of chemistry is never easy for anyone — even those of us who really love science.”
“(Singing together) just created a nice sense of community. Especially when we all felt so disconnected. We all had masks on and had to stay far apart. (Karaoke) made us all feel close, and when we moved online, the students asked to do it again.”
The caption on the hit TikTok video reads: “I told my students if this gets 1 million likes they will all get 100% in IB Chemistry,”
Although that goal is more than half a million likes away, Cooper said the class — and the high school’s principal — have already discussed the fact that handing out grades like that can’t really happen.
“It’s just a trend on TikTok. It’s a joke,” Cooper admitted. “My students were all aware that they would not be getting 100 per cent in the course because of TikTok.”
“But now they are at the point where they’re like, ‘Well, miss, don’t you think we deserve something for going viral?’”
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