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After I wrote that this morning, I decided that I will probably email Scholastic, and tell them my vaping story, and how disappointed I am that a company I respected so much is recommending teaching kids this way. I will include links to PHE and The Royal College of Physicians. I will also tell...

@ zoiDman and @ DC2 , that is exactly the problem. I think we need to figure out how to get the government/schools to address the problems of smoking, and the reason we vape, in the same way as what we teach our kids/grandchildren why we vape.

The problem with that, as far as what I am seeing with my grandchildren, is that it is very confusing for them. They are supposed to respect their teachers, and believe that what they are teaching is the truth, then when they get home, their families tell them something completely different. Can...

All of what you stated is what I know of them. Weekly Reader was originally published by Reader's Digest, but Scholastic bought them out. Scholastic seemed to be a good company a few decades ago, when they basically just offered low cost books for kids, but now, they have become huge, and from...

According to everything I can find on the internet, they are supposed to be in 90% of US schools.

If I had a school aged child now, I definitely would home school. My son and daughter-in-law are so fed up with common core, as well as having their kids taught values that aren't heir own. Unfortunately, in order to live in a nice, relatively safe neighborhood, they both have to work. My...

I was about to mention the part about vaping making you more susceptible to taking drugs, but I see a few of you also saw it. I couldn't believe that one! One thing they always seem to overlook is that only certain kids will ever smoke or use drugs. Others are not into experimenting with...

This is what Scholastic is giving teachers for their anti vaping classes: Lesson: E-Cigarettes: What You Need to Know | Scholastic: Nida I'm about to download the material to see just what they are telling the kids.

My granddaughter is the oldest, 6th grade, and she is the one who is so upset by it. I asked her today, where she heard that, and she said that is what they teach in health class. She's in the Arcadia Middle School, in Greece, NY. When I asked if they taught that in the health classes for the...

That's exactly why this is the place I mentioned it first. I was terribly upset about it, so I needed to get my thoughts together before I did anything rash. I knew you would all understand and share your opinions, and help me sort out the best way to approach this before I went off the deep end...

My first inclination has always been to try to educate, rather than be confrontational. The worst problem is how to educate in a place where you don't have any reputation. My grandchildren are honor roll students, who have always gotten good citizenship awards at school, for being helpful, and...

It's usually the links in the reports that I use for ammunition, rather than the reports themselves. Such as the links to the actual RCP and PHE reports. I save the stories as well, because frequently they contain something so well said that it reminds me of a point I want to make that I might...

Actually, (I'm not just saying this because they are my grandchildren), but they really are above average kids. (Or, at least the older two are, I'm not so sure about the 7 year old). They have very scientific minds, and normally listen to what I have to say because we have intelligent...

I was really thinking of the customers of the vape shops rather than the shops themselves. The customers are on their FB pages, and some of them must have kids in the same schools. It would be good to have others who are upset about this to join forces with. Since I am 15 hours away, and only...

Yeah, I did know about that, because I do try to follow the news reports, but thank you for that link. I've been saving all the helpful news reports because I've been very vocal with our state and federal officials, and every link helps!

That's exactly how my grandchildren were before this happened. They were so glad I quit smoking and started vaping. The kids are 7, 10, and 12. I was thinking that the best thing to show them first is the poster above. It's simple and explains everything so even a preteen can understand it...

That was the thing I thought about, but I just decided I will try to enlist the help of the vape shops there first, and and see what the area vapers think. Some of them must have kids in the same schools. If that doesn't get any results, I'll get in touch with the schools.

Thank You!!! I am so far behind on so much lately because I haven't had time to visit ECF. I saved that to my desktop. :-)

I really want to do that. Unfortunately, I am too far away to go to the school, and since it is summer vacation, I wouldn't be able to go anyway. I'm thinking now, that maybe I should go over to the Vape shops in Greece's FB pages and mention it. Maybe some of them have heard kids say that...

Unfortunately, my granddaughter didn't quite believe me when I told her that the cigarette companies were some of the ones behind this lie, because vaping hurts them. I was waiting for something like this to happen, and was hoping that it never would. I guess after hearing all the propaganda...