Water fountains? Doorknobs? Vending machines? Can’t touch this.
With schools in certain states starting to open for in-person learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, Alabama principalwanted to make sure the more than 300 students at Childersburg High got the message about the school's new restrictions.
In a musical parody of MC Hammer's “U Can’t Touch This,” Lee shows how the school is looking to keep kids safe. Students are also told to social-distance, and Lee is seen with a no-contact thermometer. The song ends with a “Stop! Sanitize!” to drive the point home. Lee, who stars in the video along with a teacher and three other students, said the idea “just really stuck.”
“Basically, just really wanted to do something fun for back-to-school to kind of reinforce a lot of the new things we’re having to do,” said Lee, who is entering his fourth year as principal at Childersburg. “I like making little silly videos for the kids, just to kind of get them excited about school. I wanted to something to help promote the community.”The video took a little over an hour to shoot, Lee said. It was shot and edited by Jaylen Mitchell, film director at CityVizualz.
“I was just thinking about, with school starting back, and with me being a principal, there’s a lot of things that just can’t touch,” Lee said. “We wanted to do something fun, but with a serious message.”Lee has posted videos to get messages to his students before. In May, Lee posted “a song of hope, encouragement, and joy regarding COVID-19.”. That video has been viewed more than 20,000 times.
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