“I think my generation realizes that we have a voice, and none of us are really afraid to use it. The best thing I can say about my generation is that I don’t think there’s a lot that we fear”
Photo: @gill.no.chill/TikTok/@kaludiasays/Twitter Earlier this week, 16-year-old Gillian Sullivan took to the beloved Gen-Z social media platform TikTok to vent about school.
When she first posted it, she figured it would get 100 likes, maybe, possibly six or seven comments. That’s what some of her most popular TikToks have gotten so far. Instead, it went viral, racking up over 36,000 likes on TikTok, and 47,000 on Twitter. CCSD students are not the first to support their teachers striking. Students also joined picket lines during teacher strikes in West Virginia and Los Angeles earlier this year. But Sullivan and her peers are the first to organize on TikTok, a social media video app originally intended to upload short lip-sync videos, but that, like most social media apps, has evolved to include its own ecosystem.
Shortly before Sullivan and I spoke on Wednesday night, the CCSD and the Clark County Education Association, the teachers’ union, held a joint-press conference announcing that they had struck a deal to avoid the September 10 strike. The deal includes a 3 percent raise for employees in the bargaining unit, a 4 percent increase in CCSD’s contribution to health insurance, and column advancement for employees like Sullivan’s mom, who complete professional-development courses.
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