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Officials flag rising student vaping; district notes repeat DAEP referrals
Summary
Gatesville ISD staff told the safety committee that many DAEP placements involve student possession of vapes, with staff seeing repeat offenses and local shops and a restaurant cited as meeting points for students.
Pam Williams, an executive director on the committee, told members that "most of the students in DAEP are in there for having a vape at school," and that repeat offenses are common. Committee members said the number of vape shops in town has increased and that students are using local businesses as informal meeting places where exchanges can occur.
Committee members identified a local Bush's Chicken as a spot where students sometimes gather and may trade or sell vapes. The district did not provide counts of devices seized or exact numbers of DAEP referrals; officials described the pattern as a steady, recurring enforcement and disciplinary workload rather than a single spike in incidents.
