Overview
- Morelia’s Secundaria Técnica 65, which carried out bag checks Thursday, kept classes running after police found no credible threat and students handed over some banned items.
- Mexico’s Education Ministry circulated a step-by-step protocol that tells schools how to report threats, assess risk, alert police, identify those responsible, and offer support.
- In Baja California, officials said they have identified about 10 students tied to threats after more than 100 reports, and they began random bag checks in at least 45 schools alongside student workshops.
- Authorities link the wave to a TikTok copycat challenge that began in the United States in 2021 and resurfaced across Latin America this year.
- Families and students have faced police sweeps, backpack searches, brief class disruptions, and worry even when graffiti and posts prove to be hoaxes.