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Great show. Played a nice selection of old and new songs. The band and the crowd were both on - four encore songs! Generally do not like Neumos because the sound guys play the music too loud and drowns out the singers, that was not the case last night. Sound was good for a change.

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I've seen BR live at New Age (Treviso, Italy). I've been extremely satisfied by their performance, they have a great synergy on stage and they can give life to their songs when they play live. The voices are simply stunning, Kazu gives you the shivers and Amedeo is also great. Half of the set was from the albums '23' (2007) and 'Misery..' (2004), which I loved because they're my favourite albums, but I expected some more tracks from the most recent works. The only thing that disappointed me was that they skipped a song ('Anticipation', which is also one of my favourite ones), it looked like Kazu didn't feel like singing it, I got this felling from down the stage..

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Blonde Redhead Announce New Album Sit Down for Dinner, 2023 Tour Dates

Marking their first studio album since 2014

Blonde Redhead are back with Sit Down for Dinner , their first new album since 2014. Out September 29th, the LP features the lead single, “Snowman,” and will be supported by a tour of North America, the UK, and Europe.

Sit Down for Dinner was written over a five-year period in locations spanning from New York City and upstate New York to Milan and Tuscany. The album’s lyrics address the inescapable struggles of adulthood, whether it’s a communication breakdown, wondering which way to turn, or holding onto your dreams.

Band member Kazu Makino found inspiration for the album from a passage in Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking , that resonated with the uncertainty of the early pandemic months and the temporarily lost ritual of eating dinner with her parents far away in Japan: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

At the same time, the group — made up of Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace — has long placed importance on the meal while rehearsing or on tour. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much — and that’s OK — but we really do,” explained Simone in a statement. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.”

The lead single, “Snowman,” is evidence of Blonde Redhead’s shared connection, as Amedeo’s voice seamlessly floats over a groove inspired by Brazilian experimental music. As Amedeo explained, the track is about “how it can be a blessing or a curse to be invisible and undetectable, and how it’s something we all feel and desire at times.” Stream it below.

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Blonde Redhead will back Sit Down for Dinner with a Fall 2023 tour. Kicking off on October 16th in San Francisco, it includes stops in Chicago, Brooklyn, DC, and beyond. The trek will immediately be preceded by a series of special dinners with the band that will only be available via an exclusive bundle . See their full touring schedule below.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Sit Down for Dinner marks the proper follow-up to 2014’s  Barragán , and pre-orders are ongoing. In 2017, Blonde Redhead released an EP titled 3 O’Clock .

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Sit Down for Dinner Tracklist: 01. Snowman 02. Kiss Her Kiss Her 03. Not for Me 04. Melody Experiment 05. Rest of Her Life 06. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1 07. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2 08. I Thought You Should Know 09. Before 10. If 11. Via Savona

Blonde Redhead 2023 Tour Dates: 06/02 – McGill, NV @ Schellraiser Music Festival 06/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon 06/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right 07/20 – London, UK @ The Lexington 08/31 – Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater * 09/23 – Paris, FR @ Montezuma Cafe # 09/25 – London, UK @ Brilliant Corners # 09/28 – New York, NY @ Public Records # 10/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Chainsaw # 10/16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall 10/18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre 10/20 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 10/21 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall 10/24 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre 10/25 – Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf 10/27 – Austin, TX @ TBA 10/28 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory 10/30 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall 10/31 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 11/02 – Toronto, ON @ TBA 11/03 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD 11/04 – Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre 11/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 11/09 – Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre 11/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 11/20 – Genève, CH @ PTR L’Usine 11/21 – Parma, IT @ Teatro Regio di Parma 11/23 – Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9 11/24 – Berlin, DE @ Hole 44 11/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli 11/27 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef 11/28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale 11/29 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux 12/01 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode 12/02 – La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene 12/03 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini 12/05 – Brussels, BE @ Orangerie (at Botanique) 12/06 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 12/07 – Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver 12/09 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 12/10 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla 12/12 – London, UK @ Village Underground

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Blonde Redhead — the beloved rock trio of Kazu Makino and Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace — announce their new album, Sit Down for Dinner, out September 29th on section1, lead single, “Snowman,” and North American, UK and European tour.

Written and recorded over a five-year period spanning New York City, upstate New York, Milan and Tuscany, Sit Down for Dinner is immaculately structured, imbued with sensitivity, clarity, and resolve.

Throughout the album, the understated yet visceral melodies create a foil to lyrics about the inescapable struggles of adulthood: communication breakdown in enduring relationships, wondering which way to turn, holding onto your dreams.

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The beloved rock trio of Kazu Makino and Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace — announce their new album, Sit Down for Dinner, out September 29th on section1, lead single, “Snowman,” and North American, UK and European tour.

Written and recorded over a five-year period spanning New York City, upstate New York, Milan and Tuscany, Sit Down for Dinner is immaculately structured, imbued with sensitivity, clarity, and resolve.

Throughout the album, the understated yet visceral melodies create a foil to lyrics about the inescapable struggles of adulthood: communication breakdown in enduring relationships, wondering which way to turn, holding onto your dreams.

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After the release of “Sit Down For Dinner” and the US/UK/EU tour during the fall of 2023, Blonde Redhead is hitting the road again this summer. We just announced three shows for the band: OLT Rivierenhof (Antwerp, 21/08), Patronaat (Haarlem, 22/08) & Mezz (Breda, 23/08). Tickets go on sale on Friday February 16th. All info on the artist page .

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New York-based alternative/ indie rock band, featuring Kazu Makino, Amedeo Pace and Simone Pace, formed in 1993.

Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley produced their self-titled debut album, before 4AD signed them up in 2003 for the breakthrough albums, "Misery Is A Butterfly" and 2007's: "23". Since then they have released: "Penny Sparkle" (2010), "Barragán" (2014), plus 2018's: "Freedom of Expression on Barragán".

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Blonde Redhead Announce New Album Sit Down for Dinner, 2023 Tour Dates

The post Blonde Redhead Announce New Album Sit Down for Dinner, 2023 Tour Dates appeared first on Consequence .

Blonde Redhead are back with Sit Down for Dinner , their first new album since 2014. Out September 29th, the LP features the lead single, “Snowman,” and will be supported by a tour of North America, the UK, and Europe.

Sit Down for Dinner was written over a five-year period in locations spanning from New York City and upstate New York to Milan and Tuscany. The album’s lyrics address the inescapable struggles of adulthood, whether it’s a communication breakdown, wondering which way to turn, or holding onto your dreams.

Band member Kazu Makino found inspiration for the album from a passage in Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking , that resonated with the uncertainty of the early pandemic months and the temporarily lost ritual of eating dinner with her parents far away in Japan: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

At the same time, the group — made up of Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace — has long placed importance on the meal while rehearsing or on tour. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much — and that’s OK — but we really do,” explained Simone in a statement. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.”

The lead single, “Snowman,” is evidence of Blonde Redhead’s shared connection, as Amedeo’s voice seamlessly floats over a groove inspired by Brazilian experimental music. As Amedeo explained, the track is about “how it can be a blessing or a curse to be invisible and undetectable, and how it’s something we all feel and desire at times.” Stream it below.

Get Blonde Redhead Tickets Here

Blonde Redhead will back Sit Down for Dinner with a Fall 2023 tour. Kicking off on October 16th in San Francisco, it includes stops in Chicago, Brooklyn, DC, and beyond. The trek will immediately be preceded by a series of special dinners with the band that will only be available via an exclusive bundle . See their full touring schedule below.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Sit Down for Dinner marks the proper follow-up to 2014’s  Barragán , and pre-orders are ongoing. In 2017, Blonde Redhead released an EP titled 3 O’Clock .

Sit Down for Dinner Artwork:

Sit Down for Dinner Tracklist: 01. Snowman 02. Kiss Her Kiss Her 03. Not for Me 04. Melody Experiment 05. Rest of Her Life 06. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1 07. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2 08. I Thought You Should Know 09. Before 10. If 11. Via Savona

Blonde Redhead 2023 Tour Dates: 06/02 – McGill, NV @ Schellraiser Music Festival 06/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon 06/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right 07/20 – London, UK @ The Lexington 08/31 – Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater * 09/23 – Paris, FR @ Montezuma Cafe # 09/25 – London, UK @ Brilliant Corners # 09/28 – New York, NY @ Public Records # 10/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Chainsaw # 10/16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall 10/18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre 10/20 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 10/21 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall 10/24 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre 10/25 – Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf 10/27 – Austin, TX @ TBA 10/28 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory 10/30 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall 10/31 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 11/02 – Toronto, ON @ TBA 11/03 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD 11/04 – Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre 11/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 11/09 – Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre 11/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 11/20 – Genève, CH @ PTR L’Usine 11/21 – Parma, IT @ Teatro Regio di Parma 11/23 – Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9 11/24 – Berlin, DE @ Hole 44 11/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli 11/27 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef 11/28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale 11/29 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux 12/01 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode 12/02 – La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene 12/03 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini 12/05 – Brussels, BE @ Orangerie (at Botanique) 12/06 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 12/07 – Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver 12/09 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 12/10 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla 12/12 – London, UK @ Village Underground

* = w/ Phantogram # = Sit Down for Dinner vinyl + dinner bundle dates

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Blonde Redhead Shares “Before”

Blonde Redhead’s new album,  Sit Down for Dinner (section1), is set to be released on September 29, 2023. Today, they present “Before,” one of the most sonically playful tracks on the album. With its stacked vocals by singer and multi-instrumentalist Kazu Makino, “Before” was written with the notion of reincarnation in mind, narrated from the perspective of a kid who seems to know it all: “I don’t need to see/I already know/I can tell you I’ve seen it all before/Once upon a time/Was I a silent child seen it all before/Stop before you run/Before you make a run/Turn it upside down.” Kazu elaborates, “Some children seem quite knowing as if they remember their past lives… or at least that’s the impression I get. The song is a sort of celebration of that kind of quality in a young person.” “Before” is the latest in a string of fantastic singles, including “Melody Experiment,” and “Snowman.”

In spring 2020, Makino encountered a passage from Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir of grief,  The Year of Magical Thinking , which reflects on the author’s devastating experience of witnessing her husband’s sudden death at the dinner table. Makino was thinking of her own parents far away in Japan; the then-lost ritual of congregating for dinner with family; and the heavy, omnipresent feeling that life could change in the instant for any of us. There was one line in particular that would eventually lend itself to the album’s title: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”   Sit Down for Dinner is immaculately structured, imbued with sensitivity, clarity, and resolve. Throughout the album, the understated yet visceral melodies create a foil to lyrics about the inescapable struggles of adulthood. It’s a meticulous and immersive testament to the unique internal logic Blonde Redhead has refined over its three-decade existence, one characterized by a sense of persistent togetherness.   Beginning this October, Blonde Redhead will tour North America, the UK and Europe. A full list of dates can be found below and  tickets are on sale now . In the spirit of  Sit Down for Dinner , Blonde Redhead will be hosting special dinners at select restaurants in Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles around the album’s release, offering a rare chance to spend actual time with the band. These are on offer via an  exclusive bundle , including the  Sit Down for Dinner  signed vinyl, a limited edition section1 magazine, and of course, a dinner with the band.

Blonde Redhead Dinner Parties: Sat. Sep. 23 – Paris, FR @ Montezuma Cafe Mon. Sep. 25 – London, UK @ Brilliant Corners Thu. Sep. 28 – New York, NY @ Public Records Sun. Oct. 1 – Los Angeles, CA @ Chainsaw –  SOLD OUT   Blonde Redhead Tour Dates Thu. Aug. 31 – Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater (supporting Phantogram) Fri. Sept. 22 – London, UK @ The Lower Third – RESCHEDULED DATE Thu. Oct. 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco Sat. Oct. 14 – Riverside, CA @ Fox Performing Arts Center Mon. Oct. 16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall Wed. Oct. 18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre Fri. Oct. 20 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom Sat. Oct. 21 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall Tue. Oct. 24 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre Wed. Oct. 25 – Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf Fri. Oct. 27 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk Sat. Oct. 28 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory Mon. Oct. 30 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall Tue. Oct. 31 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall Thu. Nov. 2 – Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall Fri. Nov. 3 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD Sat. Nov. 4 – Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre Wed. Nov. 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer Thu. Nov. 9 – Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre Fri. Nov. 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Mon. Nov. 20 – Genève, CH @ PTR L’Usine Tue. Nov. 21 – Parma, IT @ Teatro Regio di Parma Thu. Nov. 23 – Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9 Fri. Nov. 24 – Berlin, DE @ Heimathafen Neukölln Sat. Nov. 25 – Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli Mon. Nov. 27 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef Tue. Nov. 28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale Wed. Nov. 29 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux Fri. Dec. 1 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode Sat. Dec. 2 – La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene Sun. Dec. 3 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini Tue. Dec. 5 – Brussels, BE @ Orangerie (at Botanique) Wed. Dec. 6 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Thu. Dec. 7 – Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver Sat. Dec. 9 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club Sun. Dec. 10 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla Tue. Dec. 12 – London, UK @ Village Underground

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The biggest fallout has been for teachers like Ms. Motz, who said she felt “kicked in the stomach” that students would so casually savage teachers’ families. The online harassment has left some teachers worried that social media platforms are helping to stunt the growth of empathy in students. Some teachers are now hesitant to call out pupils who act up in class. Others said it had been challenging to keep teaching.

“It was so deflating,” said Ms. Motz, who has taught at the school, in a wealthy Philadelphia suburb, for 14 years. “I can’t believe I still get up and do this every day.”

The Great Valley incident is the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States. It’s a significant escalation in how middle and high school students impersonate, troll and harass educators on social media. Before this year, students largely impersonated one teacher or principal at a time.

The middle schoolers’ attack also reflects broader concerns in schools about how students’ use, and abuse, of popular online tools is intruding on the classroom. Some states and districts have recently restricted or banned student cellphone use in schools, in part to limit peer harassment and cyberbullying on Instagram, Snap, TikTok and other apps.

Now social media has helped normalize anonymous aggressive posts and memes, leading some children to weaponize them against adults.

“We didn’t have to deal with teacher-targeting at this scale before,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the largest U.S. teachers’ union. “It’s not only demoralizing. It could push educators to question, ‘Why would I continue in this profession if students are doing this?’”

In a statement, the Great Valley School District said it had taken steps to address “22 fictitious TikTok accounts” impersonating teachers at the middle school. It described the incident as “a gross misuse of social media that profoundly impacted our staff.”

Last month, two female students at the school publicly posted an “apology” video on a TikTok account using the name of a seventh-grade teacher as a handle. The pair, who did not disclose their names, described the impostor videos as a joke and said teachers had blown the situation out of proportion.

“We never meant for it to get this far, obviously,” one of the students said in the video. “I never wanted to get suspended.”

“Move on. Learn to joke,” the other student said about a teacher. “I am 13 years old,” she added, using an expletive for emphasis, “and you’re like 40 going on 50.”

In an email to The New York Times, one of the students said that the fake teacher accounts were intended as obvious jokes, but that some students had taken the impersonations too far.

A TikTok spokeswoman said the platform’s guidelines prohibit misleading behavior, including accounts that pose as real people without disclosing that they are parodies or fan accounts. TikTok said a U.S.-based security team validated ID information — such as driver’s licenses — in impersonation cases and then deleted the data.

Great Valley Middle School, known locally as a close-knit community, serves about 1,100 students in a modern brick complex surrounded by a sea of bright green sports fields.

The impostor TikToks disrupted the school’s equilibrium, according to interviews with seven Great Valley teachers, four of whom requested anonymity for privacy reasons. Some teachers already used Instagram or Facebook but not TikTok.

The morning after Ms. Motz, the Spanish teacher, discovered her impersonator, the disparaging TikToks were already an open secret among students.

“There was this undercurrent conversation throughout the hallway,” said Shawn Whitelock, a longtime social studies teacher. “I noticed a group of students holding a cellphone up in front of a teacher and saying, ‘TikTok.’”

Students took images from the school’s website, copied family photos that teachers had posted in their classrooms and found others online. They made memes by cropping, cutting and pasting photos, then superimposing text.

The low-tech “cheapfake” images differ from recent incidents in schools where students used artificial intelligence apps to generate real-looking, digitally altered images known as “deepfakes.”

While some of the Great Valley teacher impostor posts seemed jokey and benign — like “Memorize your states, students!” — other posts were sexualized. One fake teacher account posted a collaged photo with the heads of two male teachers pasted onto a man and woman partially naked in bed.

Fake teacher accounts also followed and hit on other fake teachers.

“It very much became a distraction,” Bettina Scibilia, an eighth-grade English teacher who has worked at the school for 19 years, said of the TikToks.

Students also targeted Mr. Whitelock, who was the faculty adviser for the school’s student council for years.

A fake @shawn.whitelock account posted a photo of Mr. Whitelock standing in a church during his wedding, with his wife mostly cropped out. The caption named a member of the school’s student council, implying the teacher had wed him instead. “I’m gonna touch you,” the impostor later commented.

“ I spent 27 years building a reputation as a teacher who is dedicated to the profession of teaching,” Mr. Whitelock said in an interview. “An impersonator assassinated my character — and slandered me and my family in the process.”

Mrs. Scibilia said a student had already posted a graphic death threat against her on TikTok earlier in the school year, which she reported to the police. The teacher impersonations increased her concern.

“Many of my students spend hours and hours and hours on TikTok, and I think it’s just desensitized them to the fact that we’re real people,” she said. “They didn’t feel what a violation this was to create these accounts and impersonate us and mock our children and mock what we love.”

A few days after learning of the videos, Edward Souders, the principal of Great Valley Middle School, emailed the parents of eighth graders, describing the impostor accounts as portraying “our teachers in a disrespectful manner.”

The school also held an eighth-grade assembly on responsible technology use.

But the school district said it had limited options to respond. Courts generally protect students’ rights to off-campus free speech, including parodying or disparaging educators online — unless the students’ posts threaten others or disrupt school.

“While we wish we could do more to hold students accountable, we are legally limited in what action we can take when students communicate off campus during nonschool hours on personal devices,” Daniel Goffredo, the district’s superintendent, said in a statement.

The district said it couldn’t comment on any disciplinary actions, to protect student privacy.

In mid-March, Nikki Salvatico, president of the Great Valley Education Association, a teachers’ union, warned the school board that the TikToks were disrupting the school’s “safe educational environment.”

“We need the message that this type of behavior is unacceptable,” Ms. Salvatico said at a school board meeting on March 18.

The next day, Dr. Souders sent another email to parents. Some posts contained “offensive content,” he wrote, adding: “I am optimistic that by addressing it together, we can prevent it from happening again.”

While a few accounts disappeared — including those using the names of Ms. Motz, Mr. Whitelock and Mrs. Scibilia — others popped up. In May, a second TikTok account impersonating Mrs. Scibilia posted several new videos mocking her.

She and other Great Valley educators said they had reported the impostor accounts to TikTok, but had not heard back. But several teachers, who felt the videos had violated their privacy, said they did not provide TikTok with a personal ID to verify their identities.

On Wednesday, TikTok removed the account impersonating Mrs. Scibilia and three other fake Great Valley teacher accounts flagged by a reporter.

Mrs. Scibilia and other teachers are still processing the incident. Some teachers have stopped posing for and posting photographs, lest students misuse the images. Experts said this type of abuse could harm teachers’ mental health and reputations.

“That would be traumatizing to anyone,” said Susan D. McMahon , a psychology professor at DePaul University in Chicago and chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Violence Against Educators. She added that verbal student aggression against teachers was increasing.

Now teachers like Mrs. Scibilia and Ms. Motz are pushing schools to educate students on how to use tech responsibly — and bolster policies to better protect teachers.

In the Great Valley students’ “apology” on TikTok last month, the two girls said they planned to post new videos. This time, they said, they would make the posts private so teachers couldn’t find them.

“We’re back, and we’ll be posting again,” one said. “And we are going to private all the videos at the beginning of next school year,” she added, “’cause then they can’t do anything.”

On Friday, after a Times reporter asked the school district to notify parents about this article, the students deleted the “apology” video and removed the teacher’s handle from their account. They also added a disclaimer: “Guys, we’re not acting as our teachers anymore that’s in the past !!”

Natasha Singer writes about technology, business and society. She is currently reporting on the far-reaching ways that tech companies and their tools are reshaping public schools, higher education and job opportunities. More about Natasha Singer