🔒 School officials warn students against latest TikTok challenge ‘smack a staff member’

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Students participating successful viral database of monthly stunts volition look transgression prosecution, officials say

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Schools are informing students astir caller societal media “challenges” that are circulating connected sites similar TikTok.

It follows a signifier that manifested successful September with a situation called “devious licks,” which encouraged students to vandalize schoolhouse bathrooms and bargain items from campus.

A database of monthly tasks that has been wide shared online instructs students to “mess up schoolhouse signs,” “make a messiness successful the courtyard oregon cafeteria” and adjacent exposure themselves connected campus. The situation for the period of October prompts students to “smack a unit member.”

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“They’re precise serious, and we volition instrumentality them precise seriously,” Duval County Public Schools spokesperson Tracy Pierce said of the database of TikTok trends. “Everything connected that database is thing that’s a usurpation of our Student Code of Conduct and could effect successful immoderate benignant of transgression referral.”

Students caught participating successful immoderate of the amerciable activities volition look expulsion and transgression prosecution, according to officials. The challenges and their effects besides disrupt the schoolhouse time and the learning environment, which person already suffered greatly nether the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This conscionable won’t beryllium tolerated it conscionable won’t beryllium the demolition of spot and interruption of invaluable teaching clip is not wherever we privation to beryllium close present not astatine this captious juncture erstwhile we’re hopefully getting amended with COVID,” St. Johns Education Association president Michelle Dillon said.

School and instrumentality enforcement officials are asking parents to sermon their online enactment with their children and pass them of the real-world consequences of taking portion successful these types of “challenges.”

“Students shouldn’t little themselves to these kinds of things that are being challenged connected Facebook, it truly is beneath them,” Pierce said. “I promote folks to marque bully decisions, some astatine schoolhouse and elsewhere to support yourself retired of trouble.