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SRO reports vaping alerts down; board discusses education-first interventions
Summary
School resource officer Chad Barry told the board bathroom vaping alerts have fallen from previous highs; the board discussed vape detectors, one-on-one 'Catch My Breath' education, counseling referrals, bus-camera evidence, and possibilities for assemblies and middle-school prevention.
School Resource Officer Chad Barry told the IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Education that bathroom vaping alerts at the high school have declined from historical highs but remain a problem, and he described a mix of detection, education and counseling approaches the district is using to reduce incidents.
Barry told the board that in prior periods the high school saw roughly 80–100 detector alerts per day; on some recent days that number dropped into single digits. "I wish I could stand here and tell you that it's gone or it's eliminated, but I can't, right? It's still here," Barry said, describing progress but not elimination.
Multilayered strategy: Barry described a series of interventions that the district…
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