‘Joke that went wrong’: Frisco’s mother tries to clear son’s name amid punishment for ‘TikTok joke’

A Collin County mother is struggling to clear her 13-year-old son’s name and undo a school punishment she says goes too far.

It centers around a TikTok joke that a teenager told a teacher.

“I’m confused. I don’t understand how something so simple could go so far,” Carla Broom said.

What she says began with her son approaching teacher Robert Cobb High School in the Frisco Independent School District with a “joke” ended badly.

“My son was falsely accused. I have never heard of a Section 9 teacher being sexually harassed,” Broome said.

Frisco’s mother urged NBC 5 to hear directly from her son Jordan about the “joking mumbling trend,” which he said he repeated on January 30.

– Can I have some? Jordan said before mumbling something unintelligible.

The point of the joke, the teenager told NBC 5, was “just to call the restaurant and start mumbling to confuse them.”

Broome says she was recently allowed to watch hallway security footage of the incident and saw Jordan and his friends talking to one teacher who seemed to get the joke, and then walking up to a second teacher who didn’t seem to count. it’s funny.

“The teacher heard after asking my son for the third time to repeat: ‘Will you give me some (obviously a sexual request)’,” Broome said. “And that’s not what my son said. My son said gibberish.

Broom says she was not immediately notified of the situation, but was later informed that one of the school’s deputy principals had suspended her for 1 day for a “joke”.

She says the head of the school said, “Case closed.”

Broom says she’s especially outraged by what happened next. The students, including Jordan, returned to Cobb MS the following week. Broom says she met with another deputy headmaster who had been away from school for several days.

“She’s reopened. [the case] because she can, that’s what she said,” Broom said.

This deputy principal reportedly gave Jordan a harsher sentence: 45 days in an alternative school.

“That’s not him and I don’t know what she heard or why she chose to say that’s what she heard, but we’re talking about Jordan,” she said.

Her son, according to her, is a joker and a good kid who always makes people laugh.

Broom says her son’s school performance will also reflect sexual harassment by a teacher for seven years.

“It already got in the way of his character,” she said. “It will stay on his track record, so when he tries to play the sport, they will see it.”

Broome has appealed the punishment and is scheduled to meet with school officials later this month.

In the meantime, she picked Jordan up from school, sharing that his anxiety was worrying.

“He is at home because it has caused a downward spiral. Crisis,” she said.

Broome’s daughter, who lives in Los Angeles, contacted the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP about the situation.

The Rev. Dr. James Thomas told NBC 5 that he will be heading to Frisco to appeal, deeply concerned about the initial charge against the teen.

“It’s not that he has to suffer this punishment, but the worst thing that can happen to him is the murder of his spirit,” Thomas said.

Thomas says the organization is determined to go as far as necessary to protect any student facing such allegations.

Jordan and his mom say they tried to contact the teacher but were denied access.

“I just wanted to tell her what happened,” Jordan said. “Joke. I wanted to break it for her.”

Broom says she won’t stop until her son’s name is cleared.

“I will fight until I can’t fight anymore, which is the last breath of my body,” she said. “He is not guilty. It was a bad joke.”

NBC 5 has reached out to FISD for comment.

“Due to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, Frisco ISD is technically unable to comment on individual students or release information about individual student disciplinary records,” a district spokesman said.

Federal laws also prevent the county from confirming that it has two investigations into the case, she said.

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