![]() “I almost closed our bathrooms forever,” Perez jokingly recalled.Ĭhallenges are almost impossible to track Last school year also saw the infamous “Devious Licks” challenge, which required students to steal something from their schools, resulting in empty soap dispensers, missing fire extinguishers, and far worse destruction. There’s some question as to whether that challenge was mostly a hoax, though some educators around the country report that it happened in their schools. In fact, last school year was the first one in which she saw challenges that were school specific, such as the “Slap a Teacher” challenge. The number of challenges that have taken place on school grounds has increased in recent years, said Christine Elgersma, the senior editor of learning content strategy at Common Sense Media, which examines the impact of technology on children. That outweighs common sense with them far too often,” he said. " so much about how many ‘likes’ do I get, how many ‘hearts’ do I get, or ‘favorites’ or retweets? That’s how, unfortunately, kids are gauging their acceptance within their peer groups. “Well, now, the peer pressure is to do these crazy social media things.” When Brian Fleischman was in high school decades ago, “the peer pressure was to drink and things like that,” recalled the now-principal of Overton Public School in Nebraska. ![]() But TikTok challenges add a social media twist to those developmental tendencies, giving teens’ bad decisions a global forum. Adolescents have always been risk-takers, susceptible to group pressure. In many ways, this type of behavior isn’t anything new, educators and experts say. There’s even a TikTok challenge in which participants call the local police to falsely report an active school shooting.Ī few years ago, some schools called their local fire departments in response to damage caused by the “outlet challenge, ” in which users placed a phone charger near an electrical outlet, then dropped a penny between the outlet and the charger prongs, for a share-worthy spark. Others are more daredevil-oriented: Run a gauntlet of backpacks swinging at you-while on camera, of course take large doses of Benadryl to induce hallucinations or hold your breath until you pass out. Some challenges require kids to consume something gross and potentially dangerous, such as Tide laundry detergent tabs an entire spoonful of cinnamon, which can cause gagging, choking, and even vomiting or nosebleeds and c hicken cooked in NyQuil, which the Food and Drug Administration cautioned could be harmful to your lungs. It’s just the latest in a string of viral challenges on the video platform, among the most popular apps for teenagers, that’s causing headaches for educators. Officials do say there are serious consequences for anyone initiating these threats.The so-called “one chip” challenge -in which students film themselves for TikTok eating a Pacqui chip, marketed as the “world’s spiciest” and packaged with extensive safety warnings-has sent students across the country to the school nurse’s office, and even to the hospital, according to local reports. Each time a calls come in, the department diverts resources from investigating other crimes and it disrupts the learning process. Joseph Famularo, Superintendent with the Bellmore School District.Īccording to Nassau police from September to December there’s been 102 school complaints - that number is up 25-percent from 2019. "Every school district has a homeland security officer assigned to them, working with them and going over drills and policies," said superintendent Dr. RELATED: Nationwide TikTok challenge causes several school districts to take heightened precautions Law enforcement officials at this time are calling it non-credible and say it’s possible the threats originated from a challenge to skip school. "A 12-year-old girl took the internet and sent something out that shut a school district down for three days," Ryder said.Īnd nationally there’s a video circulating on TikTok threatening guns and shooting in schools on Friday. These social media screenshots prompted an increase in security last week in the Hicksville school district when police say it was actually directed at out of state campuses and this isn’t the only local case. ![]() Get breaking news alerts in the free FOX5NY News app! | Sign up for FOX 5 email newsletters ![]() "Please stop reposting, call 911," he said. authorities sayīut the act of reposting actually does more harm than good according to Ryder, who hopes to raise awareness about a growing trend in social media threats and the spread of false information. RELATED: TikTok threats against schools likely a hoax, Conn.
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