"For years, teachers have complained about the same classroom distractions: bulky water bottles that clang to the floor and cell phones that quietly hijack attention behind glowing screens. But in 2025, a new disruption swept through schools across the country - one that had nothing to do with the persistent chant of "67." Paper darts. "They are everywhere," said Easton Whitehead, an English teacher at Biloxi High School in a TikTok video, adding that he has since banned them and now issues detentions and write-ups for offenders."
"In an interview with TODAY.com, Whitehead, 24, described the darts as small, folded triangles made from Post-it notes, stapled at the tip and flung toward classroom ceilings, where they lodge into the grid of acoustic tiles. He said he first noticed them appearing in the hallways before finding then in his own classroom. "When I finally picked one up and asked what it was, my student looked at me like I was crazy," he says. "They told me, 'It's a paper dart. You've never seen one before?'""
A new 2025 student fad involves small, stapled Post-it paper darts being folded and flung into classroom ceilings, where they lodge in acoustic tiles. Teachers report finding darts in hallways and classrooms, and many schools have implemented bans, detentions, and potential suspensions for possession or throwing. Photos show ceilings dotted with neon pink, yellow, and blue darts resembling stalactites. Reactions vary: some educators warn of injury risk from stapled tips, others compare the trend to pencils in ceilings, and a few have used the phenomenon as a chance to teach concepts like engineering and gravity.
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