Warren Smith
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 May
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So long story short, a few months later, I had another conversation with that student around communism.
we were continuously doing what we had always been doing with the video production but i was feeling more and more like i gotta be careful and the music teacher was telling me he's like look man i you got it you've got a lot of eyes on you and it made logical sense that they would they were that they were looking for any slip up anything that i i got the sense that they wanted
It would have been easier to get rid of me when that video came out. But there was so much attention around it that it would have put them at risk to do so. Right. I'm not saying that there was a plan to wait and let that blow over and then... But I think they needed it good enough. I thought they were just not going to renew my contract over the summer, which is usually what they do.
It's very common. And you thought that might happen? I thought with 90% certainty that that's what would happen. It would make sense. As you said, it would be the logical thing to do. It's in their best interest. There's no good to having one of your teachers out there with a growing audience, small but growing audience, saying certain things or examining certain ideas.
There's no benefit to that.
That would require them to go public, though, which they were not going to do. They don't want that spotlight. That would require people to know what the name is.
So I did see huge potential in that. Suddenly the students, but there's a lot of potential downside and risk to this too. And the students suddenly have the ability to create content that can reach a large audience. I mean, I haven't thought this out in a clear plan, but it was an opportunity.
If this had occurred at that first high school, Neshoba, we were already putting things on Twitter.
They would have, I remember the head of my department, we would have, who knows what we could have done with this.
I need to run with this opportunity, grow if I can with this platform in case something happens. It seems like that's a really bad, logically, that sounds like a really bad backup plan. I'm going to make a YouTube channel, but it is something and it's, again, I would have been a fool not to run with that ball as far as I could take it.
It's like suddenly, I mean, who knows what I could do with this? Right. So, but to put a button on this, what happened? I uploaded, I did the same thing. I uploaded a video with a different student who hadn't seen that video. And I thought... because it was just from another conversation, but it was identical. The pattern was so identical. I thought, this might be worth sharing.
It's identical to the last one, so what could go wrong? He was a new student, so I was like, we need to get permission from your parents if you want to have, after it was done. I was like, look, we could upload this. It's identical. I need permission from your parents, like written confirmation. I need your permission because you're new, so we don't have the releases.
And so I got that, uploaded, told the music teacher, and he was like, You know, just because we've been going back and forth on what to do with the channel because we knew people wanted that kind of, you know, that's what the audience wanted to see real students. Yeah, right. But I was, and I had toyed with it. I alluded to the communist conversation with that other student.
And so I had posted that previously. Two weeks go by. In the middle of the day, I get calls into a meeting and they say, we've decided to part ways. Because you uploaded a video to YouTube against policy. We told you not to do that. I said, you told me not to do that? You congratulated me. I was like, how was it okay the first time?
I could tell, though, when I walked in the room, their mind was already made up. It didn't matter what I said, so I didn't really say much. And I said, are you alluding to this student? I spoke to the parents. And I said, have you spoken to his parents? Yeah. And they said... no, we're happy to do an investigation and reach out to him if that's what you'd like, or you can just agree to leave now.
And they said, could you check with his parents? Like, it seems like a factor to take in. So I said, for sure, we'll just do the investigation. You know, there's like, okay, go home and HR will be in touch in three days. But I couldn't touch anything. They took my computer, everything. I was like escorted like a criminal out.
Yeah, yeah.
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