WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ)- School is almost out for the summer, but the Wichita Falls Independent School District is informing parents about a dangerous and destructive viral TikTok trend.

The TikTok trend involves students putting objects into the USB port of laptops, causing the device to short-circuit. That leads to sparks, a punctured battery and is a serious fire risk. Donny Lee, WFISD Superintendent, said he’s hoping a different trend continues.

“We haven’t had any incidents, we’re a few days away from graduation, and we are hoping that that trend continues,” Lee said.

If a student were to participate in the challenge, Lee says there would be consequences that could include getting law enforcement involved - as well as the parent and student footing the bill for the $300 estimated repair costs.

“Let’s say they put something into the computer and it caught fire, now you’re setting fire to a public building, which is arson. So that could potentially be an arrestable offense. [That would be vandalism and] the onus would be on the parent and the student to pay for that,” Lee said.

The district stays alert and aware of social media trends by using software that tracks keywords searched by those connected to the school’s Wi-Fi. Lee said they also use an anonymous hotline.

“When they put these words into the computer, even if it’s on their device, but it’s on our Wi-Fi, we get alerted to that. When we get alerted to that, we have a specific team that goes in and looks at those things. They find out who did it, and they make calls home. We also have an anonymous 1-800 hotline that if students see or hear something, they can report it,” Lee said.

Lee said the way to educate kids on the dangers of doing challenges and trends like this one takes just one word.

“Communication. We communicate to our students at the beginning of the year and throughout. That once you hit send, it’s not yours anymore and that’s going to follow you for the rest of your life. Then we show them the impacts of that, give them examples on some of the things that went well for people and some of the things that were devastating for people because they hit send,” Lee said.