Schools try different strategies to help kids see dangers of vaping

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTICLE

• Author: Education Week
• Date of Publication: 9/11/19
• Source: newsela

WHAT

• This topic is about how schools are trying different strategies to to help kids to see dangers of vaping
• Vaping is nicotine in a vapor form using electronic device
• Nicotine is an addicting drug
• This means that it will be harder to quit

WHAT PART 2

• The issue is teens and young adults are being peer pressured or don’t know the affect of vaping
• The affects are it’s hard to stop
• They can really get sick in the lungs

Who gets affected by this? School leaders, administrators, students, and parents are affected.

WHY DOES THIS AFFECT SCHOOL LEADERS, ADMINISTRATORS, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS

• Students: they can get peer pressured to start
• School leaders and administration: have to teach students and tell parents to teach their kids as well why its dangerous to vape and the affect
• High schools : in this article it stated that it’s to late to teach high schoolers the affects of vaping

Where this is happening is middle schools and high schools.

WHEN

• It’s ending when schools have these devices that detect when students are vaping in school or in the bathrooms
• Action must be taken to deal with this problem now because if school leaders, administrators, and parents don’t step in the students that vape won’t stop

HOW IS THIS SIGNIFICANT?

• This problem is significant because a lot of teenagers and adults have been dying of the affects of vaping.

HOW CAN THIS BE RESOLVED?

• This can be resolved by people teaching everyone the costs of vaping
• Also by making sure people don’t stop and if they do to help them quit

Why?
My opinion about this article is that I agree that students shouldn’t be vaping. This is because people can get really sick or even die. I chose this article because I want to spread news about people getting hurt by vaping and how students shouldn’t be vaping.

Why is this article important or significant? This article is important because people need to know the health costs of vaping and why kids need to know not to start.

QUESTIONS FOR THE CLASS

• How do you think students are able to get these vapes?