I don't doubt what you are seeing in your community, but I would love to know where you live. Obviously for privacy reasons, I don't expect you to disclose that (I wouldn't).Nice try. Why can't people admit that this is simply NOT a "problem" everywhere?
Again, I never said no teens vape here. I said it's not a PROBLEM. My kids go to a high school with 2600 students. One of 5 such sized high schools in our city. The bathrooms don't need to be locked. The campuses are outside. There is ample security and teacher presence. The student culture is good. Kids here generally are high achievers and follow rules. They aren't out smoking and vaping in public.
Maybe they are secretly doing it at home, but again, how does that make it a problem in the community?
The biggest scourge in our community regarding teens is e bike use without helmets.
I live in an area the seems similar to what you describe in some ways. Ample teacher and security presence in schools, similar size high schools (we have 3 in our district), high achieving students, etc. Yet these same kids where I live are vaping (tobacco and weed) in school, outside of school, in their homes, in friends' homes, etc. I've been shocked at some of the kids who are vaping; kids I wouldn't expect.
Where I live it's hard to be the kid who isn't vaping when everyone else is. Some kids are secure enough to do that. Others just want to fit in even though they know it's harmful.
I don't remember anything like this when I was a teen. Sure some kids smoked, but most didn't. Cigarettes were readily available in machines, so access was easy. I'm not sure why vaping is so much more prevalent than smoking cigarettes (or weed) was when I was that age. Is it because they are being told by social media that it's not harmful? Is it because it's "new" and cool? Is it because teens today have so much anxiety they are seeking relief? All I know is that it's a serious public health issue where I live, and we won't know how bad it will affect these kids until they are older.