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.

  • 520@kbin.social
    132·
    10 months ago

    By high school you should have a pretty good grasp on how rules work

    By high school you should also have a pretty good grasp on how the punishment should fit the crime and how zero tolerance policies go way fucking overboard.

    • dmtalon@infosec.pub
      62·
      10 months ago

      That was part of the problem with the story. How many times had this person been caught? The story doesn’t include that info. Kids push back, so the consequences need to be such that they are harsh enough to deter, without obviously ruining their lives. Seems that Ailiyah still got her scholarship, and that it mostly impacted her being able to participate in extracurricular activities in school

      • 520@kbin.social
        62·
        10 months ago

        That was part of the problem with the story. How many times had this person been caught?

        Considering she was already student council president and captain of a debate team and legal minimum punishments were enacted, I would guess first time.

        • dmtalon@infosec.pub
          46·
          10 months ago

          Ya, so this is apnews… If they’re going to talk about these consequences and how she was impacted the reader shouldn’t have to guess about details that matter.

          • 520@kbin.social
            42·
            10 months ago

            Okay, so how many times do you think a student has to be caught vaping for even half of these things to be justified?

            • dmtalon@infosec.pub
              4·
              10 months ago

              My comment was about how in my opinion apnews did a pretty poor job with that story overall. I’m not a school administer so I have no desire to try to work out what appropriate high school punishments for various instances of breaking rules should be. I stand by my original comment on that subject.

              “I am not going to comment on whether the punishment fit the crime, there’s not enough detail about that in the story.”

              Edit: I will say this, The consequences must not have been harsh enough to stop her from going into the bathroom and vaping. And if they weren’t, how bad do you have to make the punishment before her, an apparently smart kid, stop breaking the zero tolerance rule?