![The Wayland Police Department have issued a warning on the rise of scammers during the holiday season. “Hang up [the phone]. if you get a text and you do not know who it's from, just delete it. Don't click on any links, nothing,” Wayland police chief Edward Burman said. “Every single one of them is a scam.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_0954_720-e1734676255647.jpg)
![WHS’s Connect Program ran its annual holiday gift drive to fulfill the wishlist of children enrolled in the Dorchester based non-profit daycare organization, the Yawkey Center. This drive brought the town together and impacted both the students in Connect, as well as the greater Wayland community. “You could see how helpful the town was and how our community came together and wanted to help out a community that wasn't our own [and] kids who were less fortunate than we were,” senior and Connect Program member Jordynn Lee said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screenshot_2024-12-20_at_12.21.24___pm_720-e1734734228474.png)
![The Boy Scouts will be selling trees on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m. until they sell out.
“This event is one of the things that [the Boy Scouts] get to have a direct impact on the community,” freshman Alex Macleod said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-8.38.38 AM.png)
Popular TikTok trend “devious licks” causes destruction in school bathrooms
Recently, the popular social media app TikTok has started a trend around the nation called “devious licks.” To participate in the trend, students steal common items from their school and post them online.
Within the past couple of weeks, the trend hit Wayland High School, causing numerous problems in the school bathrooms. Administrators believe that students are ripping soap and toilet paper dispensers off of the wall, making some parts of the bathrooms unusable.
“The students should definitely be punished,” senior Jenna Garber said. “They are literally taking school property.”
Due to the lack of resources, some students have had to adapt.
“I had to go into the boy’s bathroom to get soap,” Garber said. “It frustrates me.”
Just as some students are frustrated, teachers and staff are annoyed at the high schoolers stealing school materials.
“We are upwards of $7,000 of destruction,” Assistant Principal Laura Cole said.
With the shortage of school materials around the country, administrators at WHS are having difficulties ordering the products to replace those stolen by students.
“My advice would be [for students to] start telling your peers to stop and [that] this is annoying,” Cole said. “We can’t just put [the dispensers] back on, we have to re-order them.”
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Garrett Spooner, Class of 2022, is a third year reporter and co-editor-in-chief of WSPN. He plays for the high school’s soccer and basketball teams....
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Taylor McGuire, Class of 2022, is a third year reporter and co-editor-in-chief of WSPN. She is one of the directors of Wayland High School’s Window Dance...
ANON • Sep 16, 2021 at 4:04 PM
We will continue destroying the bathrooms… you cant stop us