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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They handle it the way they can. SROs are actual law enforcement officers and they cannot/will not get involved with low level stuff like that. They’re there for much more serious stuff. Vaping is an issue for school security officers/admin. In my school if the vape detector light goes off, everyone in the restroom gets hauled to the office to be searched. But then even if you didn’t have the vape you get hung up until you’re cleared so a lot of my students avoid the bathroom just to not deal with getting caught up in a vape sting. They’re managing it how they can but aside from a strip search before entering the school you just can’t preemptively catch all of this all of the time. The kids manage to hide it from their parents too. 
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I know they’re law enforcement! Um hello but if the majority of the student population is being held hostage to a few shitty kids, to the point where they can’t use the bathroom for 8 or so hours because they’re afraid, that’s not just small time stuff. The SROs should be charging them! Who cares if parents don’t know? The vape kids should be afraid to be vaping in schools for fear of getting in trouble and the admin and staff should care that kids collectively are unable to use the bathroom! I swear I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading some of the things people say on here, no wonder we are where we are. They should shut the teacher bathrooms down too if students can’t use the student bathrooms and see how the staff likes it.[/quote]

You completely lost me (an educator in public schools since 2009) with your last sentence. Do you really think staff are on board with kids vaping in the bathroom? That this problem would be resolved if we weren’t so negligent, or just cared more?

I can assure you we are not cool with it. Beyond alerting admin if we see or smell vaping, what do you suggest? Should we leave our classes of 25-30 kids unsupervised to go sit in the bathroom all day? Just stop teaching in order to monitor the bathrooms? Strip search kids if we suspect them of vaping? Bust through the stall door when they’re on the toilet? [/quote]

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