Why are elementary school students vaping?
Children as young as second grade are bringing vapes to school and struggling with nicotine addiction during class. This constant state of withdrawal prevents them from focusing on their lessons, while cravings drive them to sneak off to the bathroom repeatedly instead of learning.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Reporting incidents to the police or CPSDid this help you?
- 2Confiscating devices from studentsDid this help you?
- 3Trying to educate students and parentsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I work at 6-8 middle school. It doesn't surprise me that some of the 8th graders have been caught with vapes.... but what really gets me is the 6th graders.”source ↗
“We’ve had second graders… I wish I were joking.”source ↗
“They are in a constant state of withdrawal, so they cannot focus, and if they're not in withdrawal they are going to the bathroom every class period to hit it and not getting all their learning time in.”source ↗
“I work in elementary and we’ve caught 2nd graders with vapes.”source ↗
Where this came up
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