Schools Handing Out Harsh Punishment for E-cig Use

[WhiteHighlights]

I feel bad for the kids in these communities. Disciplinary action for using an e-cig can go on their record or they get suspended rather than a note to the parents and counseling. Their greatest fear is that the ecig will be used for Other Stuff.

Our goal is to reduce access and discourage use on campus," said Sarah D'Annolfo, dean of students at The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. The co-ed boarding school amended its policy this school year to have e-cigarettes fall under its drug and alcohol policy.

There is a brief sentence from Greg Conley that this is an over reaction, but it is over shadowed by all the fear mongering.


http://www. foxnews.com/us/2015/02/15/schools-handing-out-harsh-punishments-for-e-cigarette-use/

 

[philoshop]

Once again irrational fear leads to policy-making that, at best, might be described as misguided.

 

[WhiteHighlights]

Unfortunately, this article is gaining momentum. It was picked up by Idaho, ABC News and others. The ABC link below is open for comments. Keep an eye out in your community. This FUD is spreading. We have to be vigilant at the local level.

http://abcnews.go. com/US/wireStory/schools-start-treating-cigarettes-drug-paraphernalia-28979172

Hopefully the name of the ABC link doesn't cross the line for ECF rules. If so, mods please let me know.

 

[Uma]

Once again irrational fear leads to policy-making that, at best, might be described as misguided.

Meanwhile, the cafeteria passes out the new Monsanto Apples...
Parents need to rally and get life back to the constitutional basics. No victim? No crime! Nullify this crap and leave our kids alone! Deal with the renegade as the renegade they are, but not the entire collective of impressionable souls.
No victim, no crime, nullify!
Some states are even going so far as to write bills that declare parental rights. Not because they don't already own their rights, but because the corporate govt doesn't abide by the constitution.

 

[caramel]

Are cups and bottles allowed on this campus?

 

[SHOCK COLLAR]

If your not over-reacting your not acting enough. It must suck to be so enlightened that your in a constant state of outrage and offended by everything.

 

[philoshop]

I'd love to find out where this action actually came from. Private schools don't do this sort of thing without a good bit of persuasion from their wealthy benefactors.
I don't have the time to run it down right now, but I have a sense there's a 'curtain-twitcher' somewhere in this, and probably pretty close to the surface unless they've recently covered their tracks.

 

[Paramaniac413]

I saw this the other day and again today on Facebook. Someone keeps posting about a "new tank for e-cigs that will burn {Other Stuff} without smoke or smell" and that's why it's getting drug treatment. Someone else was saying that the stores where I live allow minors to buy products...every store I've been in around here has an "18 and over" sign up and card you at the door. smh. I wish people would wouldn't be so quick to over-react.


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[Robino1]

Dropping this in here: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ation/255864-why-we-dont-allow-drug-talk.html

 

[congaman]

The State college i am attending went "smoke free" as of the 1st of January. This includes ecigs and smoking/vaping is prohibited anywhere on campus property, including sitting in your automobile in the college parking lot. They even have little Barney Fife security guys that cruise the parking lots in golf carts to insure the new ban is strictly enforced. I guess next will come the new dress code with blue slacks/white dress shirt/blue tie...and that collar had better be buttoned. After all these years I thought I was returning to college but, apparently, I have returned to high school.

 

[caramel]

I guess next will come the new dress code with blue slacks/white dress shirt/blue tie...and that collar had better be buttoned.

Give them another 10 years and it will be orange jumpsuits.