Lower Providence Police Talk To Middle-Schoolers About Respecting Property

LOWER PROVIDENCE, PA — Township police recently visited middle-schoolers to speak about the importance of having respect for school property and faculty in the wake of a widely circulating social media challenge daring kids to steal from, and vandalize schools.

Lower Providence officers during the past few days have been speaking to all seventh and eight grade students at Arcola Middle School in the Methacton School District during school assemblies this week in response to the “Bathroom Challenge” and “Devious Lick Challenge” that has been made popular on the social media app TikTok.

Lt. Bill Hopkins and Sgt. Mark Stead spoke to the young students about the wrongs of vandalism and disrespecting property, according to a post on the Lower Providence Township Police Department’s Facebook page.

The TikTok challenge encourage students to vandalize and steal school property and then document the acts on social media.

TikTok has reportedly banned any videos with the trend, but some challenge videos are apparently still popping up.

“We expect our community to stay safe and create responsibly, and we do not allow content that promotes or enables criminal activities,” TikTok said in a recent statement, according to 6 ABC in Philadelphia. “We are removing this content and redirecting hashtags and search results to our Community Guidelines to discourage such behavior.”

Reports of the TikTok school challenge have surfaced across Pennsylvania and the United States.