--- title: Teachers Read Mean Tweets in Viral Video From Los Alamitos High School description: Just remember, kids: Tweets are public canonical: https://time.com/19814/watch-teachers-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-11T14:16:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:40.496Z og:title: Watch Teachers Read Mean Tweets About Themselves [VIDEO] og:description: Teachers at Los Alamitos High School in California read students' mean tweets about them og:url: https://time.com/19814/watch-teachers-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Teachers Read Mean Tweets About Themselves [VIDEO] twitter:description: Teachers at Los Alamitos High School in California read students' mean tweets about them twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Teachers Read Mean Tweets About Themselves \[VIDEO\] by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 11, 2014 2:16 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 11, 2014 2:16 PM UTC The Los Alamitos High School video production club had an idea for their[ YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FGriffinNews2014&session%5Ftoken=9RbXeWYo2j2N88i0hb4Z2f1fR5h8MTM5NDYzMTU4NEAxMzk0NTQ1MTg0). They wanted the school’s teachers to read the mean tweets that students had posted about them on Twitter in the style of Jimmy Kimmel’s popular segment, [Celebrities Read Mean Tweets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y1iErgBrDQ). Teachers agreed and as REM’s “Everybody Hurts” played, the teachers read what their students _really_ thought about them, their class and the cocoa butter they use. While some teachers got off easy with semi-anonymous prom proposals, others had to face the fact that their students weren’t impressed with their teaching style. It was a lesson in humility for the teachers and a reminder to watch what you tweet for the students, because you never know who might end up reading what you write. (Same goes for Internet comments, people.) **MORE**: [Tweets About Themselves](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/15/watch-members-of-congress-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves/) **MORE**: [People Aren’t Actually Reading the Stories They Tweet](http://techland.time.com/2014/02/14/people-dont-read-stories-they-tweet/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/19814/watch-teachers-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/19814/watch-teachers-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves-video/"},"headline":"Watch Teachers Read Mean Tweets About Themselves [VIDEO]","datePublished":"2014-03-11T14:16:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:40.496Z","description":"Just remember, kids: Tweets are public","url":"https://time.com/19814/watch-teachers-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Education","viral","Teachers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/19814/watch-teachers-read-mean-tweets-about-themselves-video/","name":"Watch Teachers Read Mean Tweets About Themselves [VIDEO]"}}]}] ```