MJTV: Substitute Teacher Gets Fired After a Britney Spears Karaoke Lesson
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00:00Welcome to school, everybody.
00:02There's no escape.
00:04I can't wait.
00:06I need a hint.
00:07Baby, get me in.
00:10I dropped my phone.
00:14We just can't get rid of Britney Spears.
00:16I mean, she's in the news nonstop these days.
00:18You have the whole conservatorship deal.
00:19And what was the latest I saw?
00:21She was out.
00:22She was just photographed again somewhere else.
00:24She had a birthday last week on Thursday.
00:27She was 40 years old.
00:28Remember, we forgot to talk about that.
00:29We had to, like, apologize the next day that we forgot that Britney Spears had a 40th birthday.
00:35Leave Britney alone!
00:37And now we have a substitute teacher has been fired, or as they put it, relieved of duty in Texas.
00:45So what did a substitute teacher do in class involving Britney Spears that would get him fired?
00:55This seems a little ridiculous.
00:57So this substitute teacher has been relieved of duty after bringing a karaoke machine to class
01:04and giving kids a course in how to sing cover songs of Britney Spears.
01:12What?
01:15What does it take?
01:16You've seen those little portable karaoke machines, right?
01:18Yeah.
01:19Yes.
01:19You know, they have the speakers.
01:21Sometimes they have little wires you can pull out and put the speakers.
01:23Little lights on it.
01:24Yeah.
01:24Little microphone plugged in.
01:26And so this guy had a whole multicolored light show, pulsing lights, a deep, like, echo.
01:34Hang on a minute.
01:34I can put some deep echo on my microphone right now.
01:37Hang on a minute.
01:38Let me give some deep echo.
01:41Echo!
01:42Echo!
01:42So the guy starts doing, like, a demonstration on how to sing Britney Spears cover songs with
01:52the karaoke machine in class, with the lights going and everything.
01:56He turns the classroom lights off.
01:57He's got pulsing lights and little laser lights going on.
02:01And we have audio of this thing, right?
02:04Now, Coop, did we actually, was there good audio from the classroom on this?
02:11Let me look at that right now.
02:12I was too focused on pulling the real Britney Spears song.
02:15Yeah.
02:15So this is, with a taste of a poison paradise, I'm addicted to you.
02:20Don't you know that you're toxic?
02:23And the substitute teacher is just, he's, like, just belting this out from his desk.
02:31And he's singing to this instrumental of Britney Spears'...
02:37Toxic?
02:38Toxic.
02:39We've got a taste of your lips, I'm on the ground.
02:43You're toxic, I'm slipping my head.
02:45A taste of a poison paradise.
02:49I'm addicted to you.
02:50Don't you know that you're toxic?
02:53Well, those seem really hard notes to hit, unless you're layered seven times, like Britney
02:59is, usually.
02:59Why would you, why would you get fired for this?
03:03Coop's trying to bring up the audio.
03:04But why would you get fired?
03:07Sounds like a fun class.
03:08So, a confused student in the class at Austin, Texas' Bowie High School recorded the video.
03:17This happened on Friday.
03:19And then the teacher has since faced disciplinary action and the substitute has been removed.
03:25And I guess the substitute is no longer going to be in the sub pool.
03:30They're not going to use the teacher anymore.
03:31All right, Coop, do you have the audio of the teacher?
03:33I do, yeah.
03:34All right, so, hang on.
03:35And toxic, it starts off with that kind of annoying kind of woo-woo noise.
03:40Like...
03:40Woo-woo-woo.
03:43Right?
03:43This song's awesome.
03:44Yeah.
03:47Kind of like violins, like electric violins there.
03:50It's like the old MJ Morning Show days.
03:54Baby, can't you see?
03:55My, what can you...
03:56My, what, my, my, what can you see?
03:57This video is great.
03:59The kids are, like, just looking down with their masks on, and there's, like, a little...
04:02Isn't this the airport video where she's a stewardess?
04:05Yes.
04:05She's in the red, like, leather suit?
04:08You're talking about the video for Toxic?
04:09Yeah, the red latex suit.
04:10I don't recall that.
04:12I do.
04:12So, Coop, what have you...
04:13You've pulled the actual audio of the substitute teacher singing Toxic in this Texas high school
04:18classroom, right?
04:19Yeah, here it is.
04:20All right, go ahead.
04:20You're toxic.
04:22I'm sipping under.
04:23We can see some poison.
04:25I'm addicted to you.
04:28Don't you know that you're toxic?
04:30He's good.
04:33And I love what you do.
04:35Don't you know that you're toxic?
04:37Not bad.
04:38That's not terrible.
04:40Bring up the karaoke track.
04:42I want to try.
04:43It's awesome, baby, now.
04:45Baby, love it, now.
04:46All right, just hit pause.
04:47Is he dancing?
04:48He has to be?
04:49No, he's just sitting at his desk.
04:50He's sitting behind his desk, just bopping around with his little laser light show.
04:54He's not even standing up like he's on stage.
04:57He's just sitting behind the desk with these, like, red, green, and blue lasers that are
05:02hitting the walls of the classroom.
05:04I mean, Froggy, he looks like he has the same laser thing that you have for the Skrizzle
05:08songs.
05:09Oh, man.
05:10Bring up the instrumental.
05:11I want to try.
05:12I got the lyrics right here.
05:12Oh, my God.
05:14So, a confused student then records the video.
05:19A confused student.
05:21What is he doing?
05:22Listen to this.
05:23This was like first period.
05:25The sub was asked to leave immediately after first period, so they didn't use the sub for
05:32the rest of the day.
05:33They should sign him up to write the next school musical.
05:36Now, they said that he wasn't following the school district's best practices.
05:40I just want to know, and we don't have video.
05:42It's not a worse practice.
05:44Listen, it's not that bad, but we don't have video of how he got into this.
05:48How does a substitute teacher in this classroom, how does he introduce, hey, I've got a karaoke
05:54machine.
05:54I'm about to hit play.
05:56I'm about to sing Britney Spears is Toxic.
05:59Like, what was the lesson here?
06:00He could have just, like, his intro.
06:02Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Mr. Kuzmano.
06:06Welcome.
06:06I'll be your sub.
06:08Well, maybe the real teacher didn't leave any instructions.
06:11You're ruining my intro.
06:12Oh, my God.
06:13Wait.
06:14I'm going to be your sub for the day.
06:16Some froggy's going to do this now?
06:19Welcome.
06:20What grade?
06:20Fourth are you?
06:21Fifth.
06:21High school.
06:22Welcome.
06:24Let me give you a little story.
06:25Baby, can't you see?
06:27I'm calling.
06:29A guy like you.
06:30Chewere a warning.
06:32It's dangerous.
06:34I'm falling.
06:36Welcome to school, everybody.
06:39There's no escape.
06:41I can't wait.
06:42I need a hint.
06:44Baby, give me a hint.
06:46I dropped my phone.
06:49Yeah.
06:50Do you feel me now?
06:52With a taste of your lips.
06:56I'm going to write a toxic.
07:01All right, everybody.
07:03Move your books to chapter four.
07:05We're going to begin reading After the Hook.
07:08With a taste of your lips.
07:10I'm on a ride.
07:13You're toxic.
07:13This song sucks.
07:18I thought it was better than this.
07:20Who wrote this crap?
07:22It's a very toxic song.
07:24Froggy, I've got to be honest.
07:25The first part was not too bad.
07:27That's what I'm thinking.
07:28He just was like his intro to the class.
07:30Thank you for having me, and now I'm going to perform for you.
07:33Here's the thing.
07:33He's belting it out first period.
07:35That's 730 in the morning.
07:36He's jumping around to Britney's office.
07:38Voice must be.
07:39But they asked him to leave.
07:41They removed him from the classroom, so he didn't get to do this in second, third, fourth,
07:45fifth period.
07:46Hold on, guys.
07:47Seriously.
07:47I'll be singing Hit Me Baby one more time during second bell, so can I please stay?
07:52Oh, my.
07:52He's actually really good.
07:54He was hitting all the notes like Britney?
07:56That's crazy.
07:58The only thing that would make it better is if he or you, Froggy, were wearing a Britney
08:02like her little schoolgirls, her librarian-looking outfit that she used to wear.
08:06I have the midriff for it.
08:07This is a Roxanne Fantasy Island.
08:09Now, wait a sec.
08:10This is great.
08:11So he finishes Toxic by Britney Spears, and then he started performing a Lady Gaga song.
08:20What?
08:20He's doing a whole show?
08:21He's doing a whole show.
08:23But how do you introduce us?
08:26How do you prep the students that you're a sub and you're about to just go into karaoke
08:32tracks in class?
08:34What does the class do?
08:35I want to see the students' face.
08:37Okay, now which Lady Gaga song?
08:39We don't know.
08:40Yeah, he didn't roll.
08:41The students didn't roll video on that.
08:44Do you have more?
08:45Roll more of the video.
08:46Let's listen to the teacher.
08:47I think I'm ready now.
08:49I think I'm ready now.
08:50He starts to keep me down.
08:53We love you now.
08:54I think I'm ready now.
08:56Oh, oh.
08:58It's just about to get good.
08:59It ends right there.
09:00Okay, here's the deal.
09:02Now, I want to take a guess here.
09:03Is he a gay man?
09:04I don't know.
09:06Or he's a fan of awesome music.
09:08I'm just saying, with the lineup he's choosing.
09:10I don't know.
09:11He's actually seeing Tom Petty or something.
09:12I'd love to know what, or maybe like a Deep Purple song or something.
09:16He's fantastic.
09:17He should be like on in musicals.
09:19This does sound like a playlist that you'd see at Hamburger Mary's.
09:23It really does.
09:24I mean, I'm just saying.
09:25I mean, they're good music.
09:26It's good music.
09:26Not that there's anything wrong with it.
09:27The father of the boy who recorded the video, they're keeping his name and grade level under wraps because they don't want too much exposure.
09:40This is for privacy purposes.
09:42They said the incident was very strange, but felt that the school handled it correctly.
09:47What?
09:48The sub is having fun, you know?
09:51Wait a second.
09:52You know what's weird?
09:53You just said they kept the boy's name private.
09:55They kept the teacher's name private, too.
09:56I can't find that anywhere.
09:58Did you find his name?
09:59No.
09:59That's weird.
10:00Listen, it's all a little bit confusing.
10:02We didn't know what this was all about until our son explained what it was.
10:06Said the dad.
10:07Oh, the dad's name is, it says Andre Albelkus.
10:12Yes, we were a little upset that a substitute teacher would not care about teaching the class.
10:17Upset?
10:17What?
10:17And just do something for themselves.
10:19And yes, I think the teacher should have been removed from class.
10:23So the substitute teacher has not been publicly identified.
10:28I've heard worse Britney Spears covers, but the lights are a bit much, said a school spokesperson.
10:35I've had drunk teachers before that nobody cared.
10:38But have they brought a laser light show to the party?
10:41I mean, come on.
10:42I think it's fun.
10:43I think it adds to it.
10:44Okay, what subject was he teaching?
10:48Do we know?
10:48Karaoke.
10:49He was teaching.
10:49I've seen karaoke.
10:50Welcome to karaoke class, kids.
10:51Today is Britney Spears Day.
10:52All I have is a substitute teacher.
10:54I don't even know what class it was supposed to be.
10:57Then we have no frame of reference.
10:58It's like the movie School of Rock.
11:00Yeah.
11:01Just comes in and starts playing.
11:03I love it.
11:03But it just seems like a gross overreaction to fire the sub and the parents are like,
11:08oh my God.
11:09It's not like the guy like whipped out a needle and started shooting up heroin in the class.
11:14All right, kids.
11:15I've got rubber bands for all of you.
11:16Oh, man.
11:17Just say no to drugs.
11:18Watch this.
11:19You know?
11:20I mean, come on.
11:21He's having fun with the kids.
11:22I mean, he could be doing a lot worse.
11:24He could be singing a lot worse.
11:25Cardi B.
11:26For real?
11:27His voice could stink.
11:28Yeah, he could have done that song with the terrible acronym.
11:32Mm-hmm.
11:32Yeah.
11:33The wet one?
11:35All right.
11:36That's the one.
11:36That's the one.
11:37Yeah.
11:37So, while this, I guess, TV station started giving tips that a teacher who had not been
11:46publicly identified was a prankster who infiltrated the classroom and was only posing as a substance.
11:52Okay, no.
11:53Then that's funny.
11:53That's a rumor going around.
11:55He'd be arrested.
11:56You can't just walk into a school these days.
11:58That's hilarious.
12:00Hey, guys.
12:00I'm Mr. Zubowitz.
12:02There's a rumor going around that it's a prankster who infiltrated the school in the classroom,
12:08only posed as a substitute a crime for which was, he was reportedly arrested.
12:15Okay, this is the movie School of Rock now.
12:17But, wait a minute.
12:18But the school district is saying that that is a rumor.
12:21That is not true.
12:23That's a rumor.
12:23So, the rumor starts that it wasn't a real substitute, that it was an infiltrator.
12:28Now.
12:28And it was a prankster.
12:30And that has been shot down.
12:32That is not true.
12:34The substitute was a registered substitute placed on campus to cover class, and the sub
12:39has not been arrested.
12:41Well, yeah, listen, there's nothing to arrest the sub for.
12:43If somebody did infiltrate and break into the school and posed, it was an imposter.
12:48Yeah, that would be criminal, obviously.
12:51The teacher did not have a formal school district badge, but received a background check, had
12:57been formally checked in through the school's visitor system.
13:01All processes were followed.
13:03The only thing criminal here is that he wasn't in costume.
13:08Following the Bowie High School incident, the sub took another job at an Austin High School.
13:13Good.
13:13Good for him.
13:14He did a whole Cher performance.
13:17I got a question for you, students.
13:19If I could turn.
13:19Do you believe in life after love?
13:22Or if I could turn back time?
13:26That's him walking around in a fishnet on a.
13:29With a thong.
13:30On an aircraft carrier.
13:32And then some media outlets tried to get a hold of Britney Spears' publicity people to
13:37get a comment, and they didn't get a comment.
13:40Oh, come on.
13:40Leave Britney alone.
13:41She wants to deal with this.
13:42Leave the substitute teacher alone.
13:44Where's Chris?
13:45Leave Britney alone.
13:47The guy's voice smashes Britney's.
13:49Leave the substitute alone.
13:52That was a crazy story.