Schools around the country are installing sensors and cameras to crack down on student vaping and handing out harsh punishments for many who are caught.

When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her.

Suddenly, the rest of her high school experience was threatened: being student council president, her role as debate team captain and walking at graduation. Even her college scholarships were at risk. She was sent to the district’s alternative school for 30 days and told she could have faced criminal charges.

Like thousands of other students around the country, she was caught by surveillance equipment that schools have installed to crack down on electronic cigarettes, often without informing students.

  • Stanwich@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Man. We had Rambo knives at school when I was a kid. Compass fishing line ect… played splitsies during recess. Being a kid sucks now

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      I couldn’t even count the number of times I rode in the back of a pickup truck when I was a kid. You know who else can’t count it? All the kids who died from doing that and didn’t grow up to comment on the internet how everything is too safe these days. This is the essence of survivor bias.

      Plus you know not having universal healthcare means any injury could be a financial deathblow. Which is why we get stories in the news about people having to sue their own families.