High school removes bathroom stall doors to combat vaping problem

A high school has left parents and students shocked after removing the doors from bathroom stalls in an effort to prevent teens from vaping at school.

Wilson High School in Alabama has been struggling with students sneaking the e-cigarettes onto school grounds and smoking in bathrooms, the situation coming to a head last month.

Two weeks ago a student was discovered passed out in a stall after vaping, leading school administrators to implement the drastic measure.

Principal Gary Horton saying that every day a different student was sneaking into the bathrooms to vape, but hopes that will change after removing the doors from several stalls in boys bathrooms across the school.

Though he admits these measures may only be temporary until the school develops a better solution for its current vaping problem, many students and parents aren't impressed with the change.

"Me, as a parent, personally, I think that's a little excessive," Brandon Campbell, a local parent, told news station WAFF 48.

"Maybe they need to put a monitor in the hall, like they do. Usually they have a truancy officer or a police officer at the school. Have them monitor the hallway because a bathroom is for each individual person's privacy,"

Another parent, Rachel Munsey, said that by removing stall doors the school was taking away "the only private place in the school that they can do their business."

Experts have been issuing more and more warnings about the dangers of vaping over the last few months, with multiple teens in the US suffering from serious diseases as a result of smoking e-cigarettes.