{"id":244691,"date":"2020-02-18T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=244691"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:40:48","slug":"education-officials-across-region-respond-to-social-medias-skull-breaker-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/education-officials-across-region-respond-to-social-medias-skull-breaker-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Education officials across region respond to social media’s ‘skull breaker challenge’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teens pictured mid prank, the pranked individual can potentially suffer head and spine injuries from the resulting fall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ministry of Education officials in the region have been speaking out against the latest social media challenge dubbed “jump and trip” or the “skull breaker challenge”.<\/p>\n

Several videos are circulating on the internet showing people jumping and violently falling to the ground after being tripped by others.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Challenge is becoming popular among students across the region, with several of them engaging in it.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Education in Dominica has not yet issued any statements condemning the challenge, nor has there been any reported cases of students in Dominica taking on the challenge.<\/p>\n

But so far, the governments of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua and Barbuda have condemned the challenge, asking students not to participate in such a prank.<\/p>\n

Some of the schools in these Caribbean islands have also threatened to suspend and even expel students who participate in the challenge.<\/p>\n

While there have been rumours that there have already been deaths resulting from these pranks online Anthony Garcia minister for education of Trinidad in responding to a Newsday TT inquiry<\/a> into the matter stated” “We have to be careful of this speculation. People are saying numerous things that are false.”<\/p>\n

Possible injuries from the prank include a concussion,\u00a0 skull frac\u00adture, a haematoma, a sub\u00adarach\u00adnoid haem\u00ador\u00adrhage, or even a dif\u00adfuse ax\u00adon\u00adal in\u00adjury that can lead to per\u00adma\u00adnent brain dam\u00adage or even death.<\/p>\n