Utah School Charging Students For Games After TikTok Vandalism Trend

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Students at Murray High School will now have to pay to get into football games, reported ABC 4. This comes as a result of school damage that stemmed from a viral TikTok trend.

Students will now be required to pay $5 to attend upcoming football games. This is the first time that students have ever had to pay to get into the games at Murray High School. The school plans to charge entry fees at all upcoming activities to pay for the damages, such as dances and assemblies.

The social media trend has been dubbed the "Devious Lick" challenge. It has encouraged students across the nation, including Utah, to video themselves wrecking furniture, taking bathroom mirrors off of walls, flooding toilets, smearing soap on walls, and emptying soap dispensers onto floors.

Murray High School said in a statement:

"As with other schools across the country, Murray High School has experienced our share of vandalism and theft due to the viral TikTok challenges being promoted.
These devious actions have continued to escalate and are costing untold sums in material and time-expensed repairs. As stewards of tax-payer funding, and at a time when resources are limited and academic needs great, it is our duty to be responsive to this senseless waste of money.
Further, it’s important that we communicate tandem messages of zero tolerance for criminal behavior and respect for property and each other.
We plead with our valued partners in the media to help spread this message to parents and students that vandalism, theft, and other mischief in public schools is unacceptable conduct that must be addressed."

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