Vaping at Boarding Schools like Wycombe Abbey and Eton

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Hi guys!

I was wondering if any of you have experience with children vaping at any of these schools ?

No experience of those two schools but I’ve worked in other boarding schools and DS2 went to one. Generally school heavily discourage pupils from vaping or smoking, most will do lots of health education to discourage pupils from even starting and offer smoking cessation advice for those who do.
But you have to be realistic children at senior boarding schools are not supervised 24/7 they leave the school ground and are not supervised so it’s not impossible for them to smoke or vape if they do want.

Dd boarded at a different school, there was always a cluster of kids outside the gates smoking on a Sunday night waiting for pizza ... over 18 so nothing they could do.

kids at home will vape/smoke too. Why these schools in particular?

Loads of vaping. It is a totally unwinable battle - boys can now "smoke" in their rooms utterly undetectably

Children vape at all schools, no matter how prestigious - as a parent you can only explain to them the downsides and urge them not to be drawn in by peer pressure

I know for at least one of those schools it is treated and punished in exactly the same way that smoking regular cigarettes is. The trick is to catch the pupil doing it... there is luckily some peer pressure that it's a bit sad/chavvy (same for cigarettes).