A viral TikTok teacher is apologizing after being accused of belittling middle school students for not being able to recognize shapes

Teacher and rapper Marquis Bryant is in hot water after posting a clip from his math class on TikTok and sharing with the world how his middle school students don’t understand how to discover shapes.

The Video lasting 2:12 minutes published on February 13 shows Byrant, who goes by the rap name QB the Don, trying to teach his class a geometry lesson.

An example of this is the cross-sectional problem-solving exercise within the textbook says“The truck needs a metal partition that separates the refrigerated part of the truck from the dry goods. What should the partition look like and how many square feet will the metal partition be?”

It appears that he asked them to tell him that whenever you cut a rectangle in half, it creates a shape. Its goal is to teach them in regards to the area based on a page from the textbook. No one in the category can answer.

“Nobody in this class understands shapes,” he asks, then notes that not less than five of the 33 students said they did.

“We’re talking about squares, rectangles and triangles. That’s all. That’s literally,” he paused in frustration, then added, “We haven’t even gotten to the next one… Oh my god… we haven’t even gotten to the hard shapes yet.”

The teacher who movies himself goes on to tell the category that he didn’t ask anyone to pull out a calculator or try to do anything that may seem difficult for 13-year-olds. Still, he pressed on, hoping for a solution. The more he tried to engage, the more depressed the students seemed, even when he reminded them that he had taught the identical lesson every week ago.

The overwhelming majority of comments expressed sympathy for the teacher, noting that students in various disciplines had difficulty learning.

However, some people expressed disagreement with the best way the teacher talked to students.

“This vibe is passive-aggressive. These children didn’t fail…teachers and systems before you failed them. At the age of 13, they felt it,” one person said. When one other person tried to blame the teacher, she added, “What is it like speaking out and posting about helping her on social media so far?”

Another person partially retweeted Instagram“Imagine how his students feel when they see comments on his posts calling them stupid. And how unprofessional it is to record you criticizing and shaming children for having learning problems.”

“He takes advantage of children’s learning disabilities to review content and TikTok,” the person continued, adding, “He spends way too much time on TikTok when he should be teaching.”

Bryant took under consideration the concerns of those that felt he was inappropriate within the classroom.

He posted one other video saying he wanted to evaluate some of the comments, have a look at some of the “constructive criticism” and digest it for himself. He thought before responding because he didn’t want to seem “combative” when he received the “feedback.”

“You know, there’s always room for growth,” he said. “So first of all I would like to apologize… you possibly can never tell someone the way you made them feel. … If my tone and the best way I spoke made you’re feeling any way, I’m truly sorry for the way you felt. This was never my intention. My intention was never to be condescending or rude. I literally cannot even hear it. I just talk sometimes. Really sorry.”

He then added that he wanted to explain why he was making these videos and posting them online. He wanted to show people in real time some of the problems he faced “every day” at school, but those concerns dissipated as people focused on his tone and behavior.

Others on social media understood what he was trying to do and said there was no need to apologize.

“I don’t think he needs to apologize!!! Seventh grade and you don’t know what a square, rectangle and triangle are? But I bet they know every Sexi Red song word for word!” one person said.

Others added that blame also needs to be shared with parents, arguing that moms and dads are students’ first teachers.