A B.C. high school principal says vaping detectors installed in two bathrooms have dramatically reduced vaping in those areas. Alen Stel, principal of Summerland Secondary School, reports a near-zero vape use in the monitored bathrooms after just a few months of implementing the detectors. The success of the pilot project has led Stel to request more detectors for his school and hopes other schools will consider using this strategy.
Summerland Secondary principal Alen Stel says a pilot project of installing vaping detectors in school bathrooms was so successful, he hopes to install more.A high school principal in Summerland, B.C., says student vaping was a big problem at his school until he installed vaping detectors. After just a few months of using vape detectors in a couple of bathrooms, a B.C. high school principal says it's reduced vape use in those areas to basically zero.
But he said the problem of students vaping in bathrooms was getting out of hand, and he was desperate to make it stop.by Health Canada found that 30 per cent of youth aged 15 to 19 had tried vaping, and about 14 per cent had vaped in the past 30 days. Experts say Canada has some of the Vaping, according to the ministry, can cause lung damage, and users are exposed to nicotine, which is highly addictive.
Stel said the detectors cost about $2,000 apiece, so they installed one each in the two bathrooms furthest away from the administration offices, where he said vaping was most prevalent.Stel said there are also cameras positioned outside those bathrooms so administrators could go back and figure out who the culprit might be. He said the first offence prompted a conversation with the student, and the second and third would mean consequences, which could include suspension.
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