The hottest teen trend on TikTok is stealing from your school. But not everything you see on the internet is real. UnhappyFem writes
Photo: Tim Berghman/Getty Images In-person school is finally back, and apparently, already the kids are running wild. You have to look no further than TikTok, where the “Devious Licks Challenge” is making school administrators, internet moralists, and even a U.S. Senator despair for the wayward youth and the app they claim is abetting their depredation.
Now there are hundreds of the TikToks, showing students at high schools across the country supposedly stealing school security cameras, science-lab equipment, and school supplies. It’s like Heathers, if the students all became kleptomaniacs and not something more tragicomic . Watch any local-television coverage of the trend, and you’d think America’s public schools have descended into anarchy. And the law-and-order crackdown has begun. According to USA Today, students as young as 15 years old have been arrested and charged in states including Kentucky, Florida, Arizona, and Alabama for offenses including vandalism, theft, and criminal mischief.
In Florida, the Polk County sheriff’s office posted on Facebook, “There’s only 100 days left until Christmas. Parents — remind your kids that Santa is watching.
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