But many are attempting to head off bad behavior before it happens through influence campaigns. Some schools have gone as far as installing nighttime security guards to protect against students who want to engage in and film criminal acts on campus outside of normal school hours. How Schools Are Responding to This New Safety Challenge Alarming challenges like the ones described here are causing concern among school leaders everywhere and piling on more unwanted headaches for many in an already-stressful year. With TikTok recently surpassing the 1 billion monthly active user mark, trends on the social media platform are something for schools to keep a close eye on. November’s “kiss your friend’s girlfriend” challenge and January’s “jab a breast” challenge are all about sexual assault – encouraging inappropriate sexual touching. In October, the “slap a teacher” challenge was all about assault – encouraging students to strike a teacher or staff member. In September, the “devious licks” challenge was all about vandalism – encouraging kids to deface school bathrooms. Although many of these challenges are harmless – some are about showing off silly dance moves, for example – some of them encourage students to capture bad, or even criminal, behavior on video and share it on TikTok.Ī schedule of monthly challenges now circulating on TikTok encourages students to engage in various forms of bad behavior throughout the school year.
By now, anyone working in schools has likely heard of “TikTok Challenges.” These trends on the popular social media app challenge users to make short videos about engaging in various activities.
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