{"id":1628,"date":"2021-10-06T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEEcktmOU3DUW6DrhJ_J9gsEqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:23:31","slug":"tiktok-slap-a-teacher-trend-prompts-connecticut-attorney-general-to-intervene-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"TikTok &#8216;Slap a Teacher&#8217; Trend Prompts Connecticut Attorney General to Intervene &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_3034,w_5394,x_0,y_406\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1633533462\/GettyImages-1230726861_xyxjn4\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>TikTok trends have grown so serious that now even state attorney generals have gotten involved. Connecticut State Attorney General William Tong urged the company to \u201ccontrol the spread\u201d of its teen-targeted challenges after its most recent one urged teens to slap their teachers. The plea came after teachers in South Carolina and Missouri reported being slapped by students in various locations, including behind the head, per <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. An earlier trend dubbed the \u201cdevious licks\u201d&nbsp;challenge inspired students to steal anything from pens to toilets from their schools. \u201cIn CT, vandalism closed schools and the new \u2018Slap a Teacher\u2019 challenge may put educators at risk,\u201d Tong <a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGWilliamTong\/status\/1445060991616647174?s=20\">tweeted Monday<\/a>, publishing a letter he sent to TikTok. \u201cI am urging TikTok to come to CT to meet with educators and parents and commit to reforms that stop this reckless content.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The company said that it would work to remove any teacher-slapping content from its platform, but that it has \u201cnot found related content on our platform, and most people appear to be learning about the offline dare from sources other than TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/10\/06\/tiktok-slap-teacher-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok trends have grown so serious that now even state attorney generals have gotten involved. Connecticut State Attorney General William Tong urged the company to \u201ccontrol the spread\u201d of its teen-targeted challenges after its most recent one urged teens to slap their teachers. The plea came after teachers in South Carolina and Missouri reported being slapped by students in various locations, including behind the head, per The Washington Post. An earlier trend dubbed the \u201cdevious licks\u201d&nbsp;challenge inspired students to steal anything from pens to toilets from their schools. \u201cIn CT, vandalism closed schools and the new \u2018Slap a Teacher\u2019 challenge&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}