Bathroom privacy up in smoke as Alabama school combats vapes
September 9, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
| Updated September 9, 2019 at 4:40 p.m.
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Associated Press
In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 photo, Marshfield High School Principal Robert Keuther displays vaping devices that were confiscated from students in such places as restrooms or hallways at the school in Marshfield, Mass. Illinois health officials are reporting what could be United States' first death tied to vaping. In a Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, news release, the Illinois Department of Public Health says a person who recently vaped died after being hospitalized with "severe respiratory illness." The agency didn't give any other information about the patient, including a name or where the person lived. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) -- An Alabama high school has decided to remove some of the doors from its bathroom stalls in an effort to stop students vaping in campus bathrooms.
Wilson High School Principal Gary Horton told WAFF-TV the removal of some of the stall doors in the boys' restroom comes two weeks after a student vaping in the bathroom passed out. He says students sneak off to vape every day in the bathroom.
Parent Rachel Munsey says she didn't agree with the tactic saying the school took away the "only private place... they can do their business."
Parent Brandon Campbell says the school should instead use hallway monitors.
Horton says the door removals could be temporary while the school figures out another solution.
