Hanging up the phone on October 8, Eranda Kumnova-Batsi, a school inspector in Kosovo, discovered that dozens of teenage girls in her town were self-harming to participate in a TikTok “challenge”. “A mother called me to tell me that her daughter, a fifth-grader, had injured herself along with her friends while participating in a TikTok challenge,” Kumnova-Baci, an inspector in the city of Djakova, a town of 80,000 in southwestern Kosovo, told AFP. The inspector immediately asked all teachers, relevant educators and school psychologists to investigate whether there are other similar incidents. A total of 22 cases of self-harm by girls were counted in the city over a period of a few weeks. The first incidents were recorded in January. “Initially we thought they had been injured, deliberately, on the hands with sharp objects. But after medical examinations we realized that some girls had dozens of cuts all over their bodies,” explained Kumnova-Batsi. Public opinion of Jakova was upset. “It wasn’t just a shock to the education community,” […]
Source: News Beast
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