New Tik Tok challenge: SLAP A TEACHER!

[JimMIA]

Our local middle school sent out an email last night that the sheriff helped with. It outlined the charges that can be brought for each of the upcoming Tik Tok Challenges. It bluntly states that any students caught will face school and legal consequences. Now let's hope they follow through. They have to or they have no hope of getting this under control.
I don't know how they know the upcoming challenges or if they vary at all by regions but this is going to get worse. According to the email from the school and sheriff here are the upcoming challenges: November: Kiss your friends girlfriend at school; December: Deck the halls and show your *** (ahem, backside) in school halls; January: Jab a **** (female chest private area); February: mess up school signs; March: make a mess in the courtyard or cafeteria; April: grab some eggz; May: Ditch Day; June: Flip off the front office; July: Spray your neighbors fence.

The full list of challenges are posted on Tik Tok (and you misinterpreted December, lol).

I don't understand how Tik Tok hasn't been sued yet. Can't they be charged with inciting criminal acts? I think we are going to start seeing fights among the kids with November's challenge. And for the people that think this is just the school's problem-July will prove otherwise.

I agree. I would love to see school boards all over the country start suing Tik Tok for the damage caused by the vandalism in September. I don't think those would really be strong lawsuits, but if Tik Tok has hundreds of lawsuits on their hands maybe they'll realize that it's not all in fun.

 

[Caseheidi]

We just got a letter from the school. Part of the letter reads:

I am writing to ask for your assistance in being proactive of potential issues. Some of you may be aware of an ongoing TikTok challenge called ‘devious licks” that is encouraging students to engage in destructive and violent behavior at school. The challenge varies from month-to-month and has called for students to engage in behavior such as destroying school property, stealing school property, and assaulting staff members.

YDS says that last week someone pooped on the floor of the boys' restroom and STOLE A SINK.

We just got a letter today from the School District stating that the were talking to all the MS and HS kids in advisory about this one, and discussing how to respect school property, and what happens when they don't. They asked parents to have discussions with their kids about this behavior and to avoid it.

 

[kerry1379]

The full list of challenges are posted on Tik Tok (and you misinterpreted December, lol).

I did not know that the upcoming challenges were common knowledge. (I have never been on Tik Tok.) Thanks for the heads up. As for December's challenge-you know what, I don't think I want to know. I hope it isn't what I am thinking now. But I appreciate the warning for that too.

 

[JimMIA]

I hope it isn't what I am thinking now.

It is, but you don't want to know -- and I'm sure as heck not gonna post it!

 

[Disneyfan754321]

I was talking to the manager at Target, they have to lock up space jam toys because of the steal Labron head tick tock

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

To clarify, it’s slap a teacher on the behind. That peach means something on the challenge. The list just gets worse with each month.

And we had the bathroom one hit our elementary school where I work as well as the secondary schools.

 

[prairie_girl]

LOL at this hysteria. Just because it’s on tik tok doesn’t mean this is happening to every school in the nation. And having a police officer go classroom by classroom? I’m hoping that was fake outrage.

Everyone needs to relax, take a deep breath, and think about what your parents freaked out about that was totally not a threat like they thought it was.

 

[Magical2017]

I just hope parents support the schools if disciplinary action is taken. So many parents get upset if their child receives a consequence. Some threaten to sue (or actually sue). Some will verbally and physically attack teachers over issues like mask mandates or because a teacher followed a cell-phone policy rule and confiscated a phone.

 

[princesscinderella]

I was talking about the devious licks challenge with my 16 yr old son who thought it was “funny” but wouldn’t do it personally. I put it in a different perspective for him and said how would you like it if I got some friends together and we took the bumpers off his car and the seats out on the interior and posted the video on the internet. He didn’t think that would be so funny. Unfortunately our kids have no sense what their destruction costs as everything seems easily disposable in our consumerist world where more stuff is made to break easily so you have to buy a new one than made to last a lifetime.

 

[JimMIA]

LOL at this hysteria. Just because it’s on tik tok doesn’t mean this is happening to every school in the nation.

Of course, but nobody said it was "every school in the country. "

Some school districts have had tens of thousands of dollars damage from the September challenge. That's neither trivial nor laughable.

 

[Bamaclan4]

LOL at this hysteria. Just because it’s on tik tok doesn’t mean this is happening to every school in the nation. And having a police officer go classroom by classroom? I’m hoping that was fake outrage.

Everyone needs to relax, take a deep breath, and think about what your parents freaked out about that was totally not a threat like they thought it was.

if you work in the schools today, you know to take things seriously. Also, the parents these days don’t get outraged by the behavior, heck many of them join in

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

LOL at this hysteria. Just because it’s on tik tok doesn’t mean this is happening to every school in the nation. And having a police officer go classroom by classroom? I’m hoping that was fake outrage.

Everyone needs to relax, take a deep breath, and think about what your parents freaked out about that was totally not a threat like they thought it was.

Nobody said it was happening in every school. But it’s happening in enough that it’s not some nothingness that should be ignored or written off as hysteria. And the pranks we played in school weren’t destroying school property nor assault.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Back when I was a kid if anyone dared slap a teacher, they'd get smacked. And then when they got home they'd get smacked again for getting smacked.

 

[prairie_girl]

Nobody said it was happening in every school. But it’s happening in enough that it’s not some nothingness that should be ignored or written off as hysteria. And the pranks we played in school weren’t destroying school property nor assault.

I agree that destroying property and physical violence are not acceptable and need to be punished. I was more commenting on the general pearl clutching.

ETA- fixed up autocorrect weirdness

 

[Dead2009]

If I were a teacher and I got slapped for a TikTok trend, that kid is getting knocked out. For Tik Tok.

 

[JimMIA]

I agree that destroying and property are not acceptable and need to be punished. I was more commenting on the general pearl clutching.

Nobody is "pearl clutching."

Cute little term, but that's not what's going on here.

People are just expressing concern for something that should not be happening in schools, or to teachers.

 

[JimMIA]

If I were a teacher and I got slapped for a TikTok trend, that kid is getting knocked out. For Tik Tok.

I actually warned a teacher NOT to retaliate today. I know her well, and she might!

If you smack a kid back, you're going to be charged criminally.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I agree that destroying and property are not acceptable and need to be punished. I was more commenting on the general pearl clutching.

I think social media affects American kids more than Canadians. We are a nation with 350 million people. You are from a country with 30 million. We have more idiot kids in our nation, period.

 

[Tink3815]

LOL at this hysteria. Just because it’s on tik tok doesn’t mean this is happening to every school in the nation. And having a police officer go classroom by classroom? I’m hoping that was fake outrage.

Everyone needs to relax, take a deep breath, and think about what your parents freaked out about that was totally not a threat like they thought it was.

This type of attitude is exactly was why our streets are no longer safe and crime is rampant. Respect is learned early in life by respecting your teachers. Hitting anyone in school or doing damage to others property is a crime not something that merits an LOL attitude.

 

[Buzz Rules]

This type of attitude is exactly was why our streets are no longer safe and crime is rampant. Respect is learned early in life by respecting your teachers. Hitting anyone in school or doing damage to others property is a crime not something that merits an LOL attitude.

Part of the attitude is that the other countries don’t deal with half the negative stuff we have to in American schools.