New Tik Tok challenge: SLAP A TEACHER!

[Mysterian]

Imagine having to be a kid going to school these days, and on top of all the usual worries, you face potential harm to yourself or your property with the added embarrassment of it all uploaded online. Tide Pods yesterday, Lord of the Flies tomorrow!

 

[texaslover]

I work in an elementary school in TX and we have been hit by the "devious licks". Soap dispensers keep getting torn off the walls and thrown in the urinals. Kids attempted to take toilet paper dispensers off the walls and damaged them. Several large poops found in the urinal. Paper towels thrown all over the bathroom and stuffed in toilets until they flood. And one girl was found with a soap dispenser in her backpack!

ETA: I got slapped by a Kinder last week and he also threw a pencil at close range directly into my eye. A butt slap might be welcomed

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

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.

Have you been catching up on the news though? It's not a school, it's fairly widespread whether it's this challenge it's another. Parents of the past didn't have these types of challenges or the fast speed of the internet.

When I was young it was I "double dog dare you no I triple dog dare you" and it was to a person usually and wasn't about these kinds of things. These social media platforms give way to millions of people. But even when I was a kid it was never acceptable to destroy property or physically touch a teacher (and this slap a teacher slapping on the butt is fair game I highly doubt anyone would think that's acceptable). Even when we got MySpace it wasn't these types of challenges.

I don't even think it has to do with differences between the U.S. or Canada that another poster brought up. I've actually found news stories from Canada giving the same slap a teacher warning for school districts there and one school district mentioned in one of the articles said their school was vandalized as part of that particular tik tok challenge that occurred last month (the one where you destroy or vandalize school property).

I don't think anyone can predict how prevalent a tik tok challenge will become, they seem to fade out quickly, but school administrations and parents are in the position these days where they have to take things more serious which may mean these letters to parents even if nothing ever occurs.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Absolutely. Active shooter drills are added to earthquake & fire drills. And just today my kids had a bomb threat at their high school today. Thankfully it ended up being a hoax, but it was a stressful & scary day.

Kids in Canada have active shooter drills.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

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.

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

Have you been catching up on the news though? It's not a school, it's fairly widespread whether it's this challenge it's another. Parents of the past didn't have these types of challenges or the fast speed of the internet.

When I was young it was I "double dog dare you no I triple dog dare you" and it was to a person usually and wasn't about these kinds of things. These social media platforms give way to millions of people. But even when I was a kid it was never acceptable to destroy property or physically touch a teacher (and this slap a teacher slapping on the butt is fair game I highly doubt anyone would think that's acceptable). Even when we got MySpace it wasn't these types of challenges.

I don't even think it has to do with differences between the U.S. or Canada that another poster brought up. I've actually found news stories from Canada giving the same slap a teacher warning for school districts there and one school district mentioned in one of the articles said their school was vandalized as part of that particular tik tok challenge that occurred last month (the one where you destroy or vandalize school property).

I don't think anyone can predict how prevalent a tik tok challenge will become, they seem to fade out quickly, but school administrations and parents are in the position these days where they have to take things more serious which may mean these letters to parents even if nothing ever occurs.

Apparently it’s pretty widespread in Canada, too. A LOT of damage has occurred, just in the past several weeks.

Vancouver
https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/09/17/bc-schools-damaged-social-media/

Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news...vandalized-after-tiktok-challenge-goes-viral/

Chilliwack
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/tiktok-viral-video-challenge-hits-3-chilliwack-high-schools/

Calgary
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...to-flush-washroom-vandalism-calgary-1.6187560

Weyburn
https://www.discoverweyburn.com/local/deviouslicks-trend-reaches-weyburn

Regina
https://regina.ctvnews.ca/devious-l...-targets-school-bathrooms-in-regina-1.5595216

Nova Scotia
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/social-media-challenge-brings-increase-in-school-vandalism-1.5592767

Ontario
https://torontosun.com/news/local-n...aged/wcm/3b767f86-95e9-4d63-abe9-806b4d370fe2

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Kids in Canada have active shooter drills.

Ok. But it’s disingenuous to pretend the situations are the same in the US & Canada. This graphic is old (from 2018), but highlights that. And if the internet is correct (which I’ll acknowledge it isn’t always) it shows Canada has had 19 school shootings between 1884-2016. Your government also enacted change recently.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I think we can all agree that TikTok is a cancer online. It should have been banned when Trump wanted it banned.

No, I disagree. TikTok needs to do better with their community guidelines and needs to actually follow through with them, but there are dangerous things put out on all social media. It is not exclusive to TT. And there is actually a lot of useful things on TT.

 

[JimMIA]

Ok. But it’s disingenuous to pretend the situations are the same in the US & Canada. This graphic is old (from 2018), but highlights that. And if the internet is correct (which I’ll acknowledge it isn’t always) it shows Canada has had 19 school shootings between 1884-2016. Your government also enacted change recently.

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Those numbers look very bogus to me -- but ONE is too many anywhere.

 

[kdonnel]

Those numbers look very bogus to me -- but ONE is too many anywhere.

There is no agreed upon definition of a school shooting so the statistics can be gathered and used to tell the desired narrative.

Everytown defines these incidents as any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building, or on a school campus or grounds. Its database, however, includes incidents where no one was injured; attempted or completed suicide, with no intent to injure others; and cases when a gun was fired unintentionally, resulting in injury or death. The list covers schools from elementary through college.

One example includes a student shot in an attempted robbery after school hours in a parking lot. Another included the accidental discharge of a school police officer’s gun.

Many college campuses are in city centers. There are many "school shootings" that are categorized as such that did not involve any college students but occured on campus. Two great examples that contribute to "school shootings" statistics are the Georgia State University campus and Georgia Tech Campus. Both are located in the heart of a city of several million in areas with shootings that are not directed at college students, don't involve college students, but count as "school shootings".

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Those numbers look very bogus to me -- but ONE is too many anywhere.

Never said differently

It doesn’t change that the situations in the US & Canada are not the same.

 

[JimMIA]

There is no agreed upon definition of a school shooting so the statistics can be gathered and used to tell the desired narrative.

Right, and "studies" are contracted with organizations those paying for the study know will give them the results they want.

I don't believe ANY "data" I see -- from ANY source -- on anything remotely political.

"Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure!"

 

[JimMIA]

My Kindergarten teacher daughter has a good attitude about the Slap a Teacher challenge.

 

[Sparkly]

How about this for a TikTok challenge- Be respectful, work hard, be kind and help others? Clearly that's out of fashion nowdays.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Ok. But it’s disingenuous to pretend the situations are the same in the US & Canada. This graphic is old (from 2018), but highlights that. And if the internet is correct (which I’ll acknowledge it isn’t always) it shows Canada has had 19 school shootings between 1884-2016. Your government also enacted change recently.

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[Bamaclan4]

How about this for a TikTok challenge- Be respectful, work hard, be kind and help others? Clearly that's out of fashion nowdays.

AMEN. And somewhere along this thread I got lost, because I don’t understand how it became a competition between the US and Canada. There’s way too much violence and misbehavior in this world regardless of where you live. We would ALL DO WELL to follow The Golden Rule and try to raise our children to be Respectful and Responsible Citizens. Sorry for the rant, well actually I’m not, just joining in on something that I have very strong feelings on.

 

[Colleen27]

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 think there's a point where the media coverage and social media outrage among adults about these things actually causes them to spread more than the initial "challenge" ever did. My 13yo and her friends are on TikTok All. The. Time. and none of them had heard about these challenges from any of the accounts they follow. They heard about them from school officials and letters sent home... but now some of her peers are talking about how they're going to play along. Would they have done so if it hadn't been the freakout of the moment? I don't know, but there's a big part of me that doubts it. Just like the Tide Pods thing, this thing is blowing up far more because of the adult media world worrying over it than it ever could have as a thing circulated among teens.

... and seriously, plenty of the senior pranks from back in my day were destructive or disruptive. That's hardly something new to this generation.

 

[Colleen27]

I think we can all agree that TikTok is a cancer online. It should have been banned when Trump wanted it banned.

Nope, not at all. I love TikTok and use it regularly. The platform isn't the problem; the users/intent is the problem. And if it wasn't on TikTok it would be on SnapChat or Instagram or whatever new platform would emerge to fill the void left by the banning of something so popular.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

AMEN. And somewhere along this thread I got lost, because I don’t understand how it became a competition between the US and Canada. There’s way too much violence and misbehavior in this world regardless of where you live. We would ALL DO WELL to follow The Golden Rule and try to raise our children to be Respectful and Responsible Citizens. Sorry for the rant, well actually I’m not, just joining in on something that I have very strong feelings on.

It’s not a competition at all. And I didn’t take any of the conversation being had as competition, just sharing information & facts. And that fact is that gun laws are more lax in the US. I think we all agree that children having to do active shooter drills at all is outrageous & upsetting, regardless of where they live. But it is a very sad reality.

We just had two back to back days of threats of violence (bombs and then weapons) at my kids’ high school. I am admittedly upset about it, so it’s coloring my opinion. When my kids spend their first day of school planning escape routes out of their classrooms, or as parents we have to make the decision whether to send our kids in to school under these threats or as teachers figure out how to set up our classrooms to be able to shelter our class, it’s a problem. And I realize I’m treading a very fine line with the rules here, but yes, I’m outraged the US doesn’t seem to take any action to change it the way other countries have. Is Canada immune to this kind of stuff? Absolutely not. Are their schools just a little bit safer because their government took action? Yes. There are no winners here though.

 

[design_mom]

Those numbers look very bogus to me -- but ONE is too many anywhere.

I saw a similar graphic posted somewhere and did some digging. This was a while ago, so I'm sure the actual number of school shootings now is higher now than it was then, but the definition of "school shooting" was very broad. It included anytime a shot was fired on (or sometimes near) school property. Some examples that I found included -- someone shot out the windows of an abandoned building that had previously housed a school = school shooting. -- A middle-of-the-night drug deal taking place in a school parking lot went bad and shots were fired = school shooting -- A school resource offer accidentally discharged his weapon into the floor = school shooting.)

Clearly the US has a school shooting problem and a gun violence problem in general, but I think sometimes graphics like this are playing fast and loose with the definition of a school shooting. The truth is scary enough on its own.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I saw a similar graphic posted somewhere and did some digging. This was a while ago, so I'm sure the actual number of school shootings now is higher now than it was then, but the definition of "school shooting" was very broad. It included anytime a shot was fired on (or sometimes near) school property. Some examples that I found included -- someone shot out the windows of an abandoned building that had previously housed a school = school shooting. -- A middle-of-the-night drug deal taking place in a school parking lot went bad and shots were fired = school shooting -- A school resource offer accidentally discharged his weapon into the floor = school shooting.)

Clearly the US has a school shooting problem and a gun violence problem in general, but I think sometimes graphics like this are playing fast and loose with the definition of a school shooting. The truth is scary enough on its own.

Here is the definition they use. And the article itself. So no, it doesn’t include the examples you used.

That said, even if the numbers are exaggerated, which I won’t argue, it doesn’t negate the overall point.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html