Anderson County Schools’ vaping and tobacco policies praised
From programs to help students caught vaping, to art projects, Anderson County Schools are working to help prevent vape use among the youth.
Wendy Maness, youth prevention coordinator for Allies for Substance Abuse Prevention of Anderson County, addressed the county Board of Education at its Dec. 11 regular meeting.
Students after a first vaping violation in the school system go to the Coping Conversations program, which she said keeps them out of Juvenile Court.
She said 75 students across Anderson County and Oak Ridge had attended Coping Conversations.
She also spoke about No Vape November, in which four students at Clinton Middle School won a poster contest.
The prizes were drones.