A Kansas school teacher has been fired for posting TikTok videos about farting on students and telling his classroom false facts.
Stephen Taylor was let go from the Olathe’s Mill Creek Campus alternative school last month after videos of him joking about teaching from inside one of the school’s classrooms went viral, racking up millions of views.
Taylor claims that district asked him to remove four of his ‘fart’ videos under the district’s social media policy which demands ‘the same level of personal responsibility, discretion and professionalism expected in any other form of communication’.
In one video, he’s heard talking about ‘crop dusting’ in his classroom and says he tells students incorrect facts whenever they annoy him.
He states: ‘Teachers, if a student annoys you, just remember that you can lie. There’s nothing that says you have to tell them the truth all the time. I teach history.
Stephen Taylor was fired from the Olathe’s Mill Creek Campus alternative school last month after videos of him joking about teaching with one of the school’s classrooms in the background went viral and racked up millions of views
![He says: 'Teachers, if a student annoys you, just remember that you can lie. There's nothing that says you have to tell them the truth all the time. I teach history'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76477795-12623423-He_says_Teachers_if_a_student_annoys_you_just_remember_that_you_-a-5_1697120693702.jpg)
He says: ‘Teachers, if a student annoys you, just remember that you can lie. There’s nothing that says you have to tell them the truth all the time. I teach history’
![Urban dictionary defines 'crop dusting' as 'the act of breaking wind as you walk past a group of people or through a room, thereby leaving a trail of gas behind you'.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76477789-12623423-Urban_dictionary_defines_crop_dusting_as_the_act_of_breaking_win-a-1_1697120693619.jpg)
Urban dictionary defines ‘crop dusting’ as ‘the act of breaking wind as you walk past a group of people or through a room, thereby leaving a trail of gas behind you’.
!['I tell them Abraham Lincoln invented the car. That's why it's named after him'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76477781-12623423-image-m-18_1697120020428.jpg)
!['I tell them Jake Paul and Logan Paul had a great-grandfather named Paul Revere because they don't even know how names work'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76477809-12623423-image-m-19_1697120030358.jpg)
The sole video that remains of Taylor shows him telling other teachers about ‘crop dusting’ in a classroom and telling students incorrect facts whenever they annoy him
‘I tell my students the wrong stuff all the time when they annoy me.
‘I tell them Abraham Lincoln invented the car. That’s why it’s named after him. I tell them Jake Paul and Logan Paul had a great-grandfather named Paul Revere because they don’t even know how names work.
‘I crop dust them all the time. I save up big milky lactose intolerant farts. And I drop bombs silently because I’m an adult and I know my body. And then I just let it stew.
‘Then I walk away and I go, ‘oh my god’, it stinks over there and then they have to sit with it.’
Urban dictionary defines ‘crop dusting’ as ‘the act of breaking wind as you walk past a group of people or through a room, thereby leaving a trail of gas behind you’.
In an ironic turn of events, Taylor also joked in the same video that the school cannot fire him because ‘they need me too badly’.
Since then, the teacher has said on multiple videos that the only reason he is on TikTok and cracking ‘jokes’ is because the school only paid him $45,000 a year.
![He also posted another video claiming that the school sent him a cease and desist letter to remove the videos and told him to stop making content or resign](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76477899-12623423-He_also_posted_another_video_claiming_that_the_school_sent_him_a-a-6_1697120693702.jpg)
He also posted another video claiming that the school sent him a cease and desist letter to remove the videos and told him to stop making content or resign
![Since he started posting about 'fartgate' on his account and been fired, he has allegedly been offered 13 jobs from other schools and is currently on a comedy tour titled 'The Teacher Shortage tour'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76476909-12623423-Since_he_started_posting_about_fartgate_on_his_account_and_been_-a-2_1697120693648.jpg)
Since he started posting about ‘fartgate’ on his account and been fired, he has allegedly been offered 13 jobs from other schools and is currently on a comedy tour titled ‘The Teacher Shortage tour’
![Taylor tells his viewers that the school fired him because he did not maintain 'the same level of personal responsibility, discretion and professionalism expected in any other form of communication' on his channel](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/12/15/76476905-12623423-Taylor_tells_his_viewers_that_the_school_fired_him_because_he_di-a-3_1697120693690.jpg)
Taylor tells his viewers that the school fired him because he did not maintain ‘the same level of personal responsibility, discretion and professionalism expected in any other form of communication’ on his channel
He also posted another video claiming that the school sent him a cease and desist letter to remove the videos and told him to stop making content or resign.
Taylor tells his viewers that the school fired him because he did not maintain ‘the same level of personal responsibility, discretion and professionalism expected in any other form of communication’ on his channel.
‘They don’t understand it. The social media policies are designed for Myspace. They are years behind where we are currently at in the world, which is TikTok is alive and well everyone is on it,’ he said.
He told the Olathe School Board before they voted to fire him at a board meeting: ‘You are going to vote at the end of this to fire a teacher who has incredible evaluations, great relationships with students and cares deeply about their success. I am that teacher, and this is all because of TikTok.’
Since he started posting about ‘fartgate’ on his account and been fired, he has allegedly been offered 13 jobs from other schools and is currently on a comedy tour titled ‘The Teacher Shortage tour’.
Users have been pouring in support of Taylor since he started sharing his story with many wanting him to continue his jokes and sharing updates on the story with them.
But when Fox4 went to a park near the school to get reaction on his ‘lying to my students’ video, one person said: ‘Bragging about lying to your students — what is that?’
It’s not yet known which grade Taylor was teaching at the school. The school has yet not responded to DailyMail.com for a comment.
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