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Valley school districts are trying to fight back on a newer reality: students vaping. Some districts are putting in vape sensors in bathrooms to help deter and curb vape use in schools.
According to the Arizona Youth Survey, in the most recent results from 2022, 13.6% of eighth grade kids reported using a vape at least once or more during their lifetime. Nearly 21% of 10th graders and 27% of 12th graders reported using e-cigarettes. Those numbers are down compared to previous years, but schools say it is still a big issue.
Through investigations using cameras that are outside of the bathrooms, school resource officers and security can identify the student and face discipline. “There’s a lot of things that happens in bathrooms that we don’t have visibility into. The area, for students, the last two or three years have had the most concerns with,” Molino said.
Vapes are now becoming more obscure. Moore said he’s seen vapes that are actually highlighters and are also vape pens. “They said they get about 15 alerts a day from this one bathroom and about five of them lead to discipline,” Moore said of Red Mountain High staff who reported the numbers to him. “They actually make a comment that if they had more staff members, they could get to more of them sooner and have more catches.”
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