There has been a new app rising in popularity in the past months. The app is called \u201cTea,\u201d it is used to slander students, primarily girls targeting boys. The minimum age to log onto the app is 18 years old, however many younger people have found ways around this. Many schools have no idea how to keep up with this app, and even worse, many admin don\u2019t even know that this app exists. This is because the students keep it a secret from the schools by only keeping it on their phones, which admin don\u2019t have direct access to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bud Beach, Dean at Ponte Vedra High School (PVHS), says, \u201cit can get sketchy,\u201d when apps like these come up because the schools aren’t sure on how to regulate them to keep their students safe, while still allowing free speech. He explains how this is a major gray area for administrators because if this kind of activity has happened before, it wasn\u2019t on this platform and in some cases, not even online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can\u2019t be anonymous on things like this.\u201d<\/p>Dean Beach<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Dean Beach didn\u2019t like the idea of the users remaining unknown, saying that \u201cyou can\u2019t be anonymous on things like this.\u201d Cyberbullying is a big problem in America and it\u2019s only growing due to the rise of technology and phones in school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to some Facebook users, in the past, there have been things like the Tea app that existed, such as something called a \u201cslam book.\u201d This is a physical book passed around high schools where girls specifically collected information from other girls about guys that they may be looking to date. Although in theory it was used for girls\u2019 safety, it was mostly used to slander boys without them knowing. Kieran Reily, a junior at PVHS recognizes that the Tea app is a \u201cgood way to find out stuff,\u201d but at the same time he commends that the idea of the app is a \u201cbreach of privacy.\u201d This is because people don\u2019t get consent to be posted on the app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These kinds of things will most likely never stop, but schools need to keep up trying to stifle this new kind of cyberbullying, which can hurt young men and women\u2019s self-esteem at a very emotional point in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Graphic by Philip Berkwit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Chase Cowan There has been a new app rising in popularity in the past months. The app is called \u201cTea,\u201d it is used to slander students, primarily girls targeting boys. The minimum age to log onto the app is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[819,820,821],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chase-tea-app-graphic.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n