With social media platforms like TikTok becoming a hotbed for teenagers and young adults, school officials aren’t taking any chances as an online threat spread throughout the social platform warning of a spring of deadly violence aimed towards schools. Although some agencies have deemed the threat to be nothing more than a hoax, the Tom’s River Regional School District sent an email informing parents they were increasing police presence just in case. 

After the threat was alerted to the police, the Twitter account for the Baltimore County Public Schools wrote, “Law enforcement agencies have investigated this threat and determined that it originated in Arizona and is not credible.”

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The supposed trend called for students and users to make threats of shootings, bombs, and violence towards local schools. TikTok’s communications team wrote, “We handle even rumored threats with utmost seriousness, which is why we’re working with law enforcement to look into warnings about potential violence at schools even though we have not found evidence of such threats originating or spreading via TikTok.”

Kristen Devitt of the Wisconsin DOJ Office of School Safety added, “We are not seeing any direct ties of this threat to any particular school in Wisconsin. It is common when we are nearing anniversaries of prior attacks or coming up against significant times of time off.”

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The Citrus County School District in Florida noted, “As of Thursday morning, we have not received any indication of a credible threat to any of our schools.” They did admit they are receiving numerous calls from concerned parents about the TikTok threat. 

The Fort Bend Independent School District in Texas released a statement, saying, “We are taking this action in the wake of several social media sites challenging students nationwide to threaten their schools. This issue is far beyond just Fort Bend ISD.”

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While there have been no threats made against any schools are students, some parents decided to keep their children home.