- Jun 12, 2014
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Need some help here. In high school, this seems to be the latest thing for the kids. Started a few years back with the e cigarettes, but looks to be elevating/evolving. It is against our policy to have or use them at school and the majority of the kids that get caught and disciplined don't get what the problem is. Quite often their parents feel the same, that we are being too harsh, and will even tell us that they regularly vape as a family. So just how harmless are they?
Toward the end of school in May and during summer school, we've had three cases of some kids vaping some sort of oil that is a very high concentrate nicotine base. Two of the kids couldn't walk unassisted, speech was slurred, and one puked and crapped his pants! The stuff they were using was called "Brain Freeze." Could they have had something else as well? Maybe, but this is what we found on them and what they admitted to using. I shudder to think what might have happened if they tried to drive in the state they were in.
What I'm asking is this: what do you all know about this stuff and how do you feel about it? Seems that as a school administrator, I'm starting to get emails from some vaping groups pushing for "education" rather than punishment (seems I've heard this argument somewhere else) and I'm certain that there needs to be that component, but added and not in lieu of. Anyhow, your opinions and shared knowledge will be a help!
Toward the end of school in May and during summer school, we've had three cases of some kids vaping some sort of oil that is a very high concentrate nicotine base. Two of the kids couldn't walk unassisted, speech was slurred, and one puked and crapped his pants! The stuff they were using was called "Brain Freeze." Could they have had something else as well? Maybe, but this is what we found on them and what they admitted to using. I shudder to think what might have happened if they tried to drive in the state they were in.
What I'm asking is this: what do you all know about this stuff and how do you feel about it? Seems that as a school administrator, I'm starting to get emails from some vaping groups pushing for "education" rather than punishment (seems I've heard this argument somewhere else) and I'm certain that there needs to be that component, but added and not in lieu of. Anyhow, your opinions and shared knowledge will be a help!