Vaping in class?

[Anonymous]

Are the people concerned about kids putting "other" things into a vape cartridge referring to marijuana distillates? Distillates are not something readily available from street dealers or something that teens could make themselves because they require knowledge of chemistry to make and carry the risk of explosion in the manufacturing process. You'd have to get them from a shop, like a MD or DC medical marijuana vendor, where they aren't cheap. Not many of these legal products get diverted to illicit use, and very few end up with children.

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Previous post is completely wrong. You can easily buy vape pens with marijuana for ~$60 total around here. Kids have them and are using them.

[Anonymous]

DS comes home from his elite with almost daily experiences of running into boys vaping in the restroom during the day. He reports it runs in certain athletic team circles. He claims it doesn’t interest him or make him uncomfortable but he keeps bringing it up, which tells me there is some level of discomfort. I have shared this with the administration and they insist it is being addressed. As far as I can tell it’s out of control...

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I cannot imagine being even remotely athletic and vaping. The destruction to lungs is crazy.

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But you are not seventeen and immortal anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Good vape shops like Giant Vapes or GypsyVapes won’t ever sell anything to people under 21, I think the reason is obvious: teenagers are not allowed to vape, and parents’ duty is to look after their kids and prevent them from smoking, vaping, alcohol drinking, drugs, etc. I can’t even imagine a good school where children freely vape or smoke.

Your imagination skills need work.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot imagine being even remotely athletic and vaping. The destruction to lungs is crazy.

Agreed - interestingly, its cultural. At our DS’ school certain teams partake more than others - lacrosse, big (public!) users - cross country, not so much...

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Anonymous wrote:My kids go to privates in the DC area. Schools constantly discussed on DCUM and called "top whatever" on many posts. So, schools you all know well. My kids say they have friends who vape or Juul, its something we talk about. I try to be very aware and so I'm wondering about something...

Over on the Tweens and Teens forum there is a whole thread discussing vaping and the fact that kids do it in class. Multiple people, teachers, parents, kids, are discussing this and saying that kids vap in class all the time.

I cannot even imagine how a kid in one of the area private schools, where some classes have as few as 6-8 students, and no classes have more than 15 or so, would be able to do this? Plus, these kids seem incredibly serious and intense about schoolwork and their classes. Im having a tough time imagining it taking place and I am hoping I am right about this.

So, my question is, is this just going on in classrooms just in the much larger public schools? Or does this also go on in area privates? Are any parents aware that their child has seen or sees classmates vaping in class? or in the bathroom during school hours? My kids say no way, not in their school(s) but I wondering if they are just unaware as the folks on the other thread are so certain this is going on in high school classrooms....

We are at Big 3 schools and I have never heard of kids doing this during class. The teachers won’t allow it. They’re also not allowed to have their phones during the day either. What schools are allowing this during the day? I’m kind of surprised.

Please wake up, PP. There was a story about this on the 11:00 p.m. news on WJLA on Monday. Google it, please. It interviewed kids who said it’s easy to engage in juuling while in class because the device is so small and the scent is similar to an air freshener. It can be done behind a teachers back and they would never know. PP, yes they are likely doing this in your precious Big 3 school. Now, go unclutch your pearls.

First of all you have major anger issues. Secondly it wasn’t our school where this happened so carry on.

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Anonymous wrote:Used often in the bathroom at DC's Big 3. So depressing...

What is the purpose of it? I don’t get it.

I understand no one wants to be a tattletale but why don’t kids tell if they know these kids are doing it?

A sound sense of personal privacy.

I don’t understand what this means. One would argue if you’re inhaling illegal substances in public view (it is illegal if you’re under 18 and especially if you’re inhaling other illegal substances like weed) then you have given up any rights you have to privacy. If you want privacy do it in your own home.

Op I was so wrong and naïve about all of this. I truly did not think kids in 7th and 8th grade were doing this. Friends just told me their daughter was recently at a 7th grade party and both boys and girls were openly vaping. I thought we had a few years before we had to worry about this. Who knows what they’re putting in it.

Just last week, 7th grade DD’s friend was caught. Weed in a vape pen at school. It was eye opening. I also thought this a conversation for the summer before HS. Right now, DD is sufficiently freaked out about what is happening to her friend that she’s very open to hearing about the dangers and consequences. Maybe I’m glad it came a year early. Rising 9th graders think they know it all.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at privates in DC with small class sizes and the word on the street is that while it's often done in the bathroom, it absolutely is done in class. Not often, but someone is always trying to push the envelope. It can and has been done in 12 person classes.

Pretty disappointing to hear. I am not blaming the teachers, but part of the reason we sent our kids to privates was for the accountability found in smaller classes. At the time, we were concerned with academic accountability, but I just can't fathom how there can only be 12 kids in a class and the teacher doesn't see this happening.

I could see this happening during the one-on-one conferences that you can have with a student when you have 12 kids doing a project rather than 30.