One of the dangers in using a stock photo? You never know who else has used it.
That鈥檚 the situation the Austin School District is finding itself in. As on the Austin Reddit page points out, the stock photo gracing the cover of AISD鈥檚 guide for new hires is the same photo used in a popular, unfortunately named meme: .
An internet meme, of course, is an image of a person or thing including text from that subject鈥檚 perspective: think of the indomitable , the ever-helpful , or Laina, aka the .
The internet detectives at Know Your Meme trace the Unhelpful High School Teacher image back to a Corbis Images stock photo, and note the meme has been around for a while 鈥� even .
While AISD may get some LOLs out of the mixup 鈥� which we鈥檝e confirmed as real, of the guide shared on Reddit 鈥� Unhelpful High School Teacher won鈥檛 be winning any educator awards. Here鈥檚 a sampling of her teaching technique:
