Retired Teacher Comes Up with a TikTok School Challenge

Tony Garcia is a retired school teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado. However he is still finding ways to impact students and the community as a whole. Garcia has had a video of himself go viral on the internet due to a challenge that he has given to the world.

The story goes that Garcia was talking to a former student of his. "She told me our school had been vandalized. The next day, my brother told me his school had also been vandalized as a result of the TikTok devious licks challenge," he said. "I saw that the challenge for October was to smack a teacher and I simply could not sit silent anymore."

This "slap a teacher" challenge is an additional challenge where kids film themselves stealing and vandalizing school property. TikTok made a public statement regarding these actions as violating its policies and that it was immediately making a push to get those videos off their platform. Unfortunately, the damage had already been done as kids have been engaging in these despicable acts.

In response to this, Garcia made a video that set a challenge to everyone who saw it. In the post, Garcia wrote he doesn't "understand influencers, YouTubers and TikTokers," but wants to present another challenge of "old school lessons." The most important among them: to "be a good and kind human being."

He goes on to say, "How about you make that go viral? What say we get a million views of you doing something decent and humane and simply beautiful?" Garcia wrote on Facebook. The response to this has been overwhelming. He has received messages from people all over the world and from almost every single US state.

A teacher in Indiana told him that her assistant principal read his Facebook message on the loud speaker during morning announcements. A school with 550 kids! Furthermore, another teacher said her principal read the message to the entire school of 1,200 kids!

In a world that is full of craziness, chaos, and disgusting acts of violence and inhumane treatment, we need something like this to happen. Garcia has taken the challenge that we have proposed time and time again, "be the change you wish to see." It starts with you and the actions that you take each and every day.

It is up to us to create the world that we want to live in. One small act can go a long way. Step up to the plate and lets see what you got!

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