“We recognize that it’s a prevalent issue in and throughout the community,” said Northside ISD Superintendent Dr. John Kraft.“The number increased by twofold just from 21-22 to the 22-23 school year,” Kraft said.For the 2020-2021 school year, there were 746 THC-vaping-related hearings.
It’s not just a Northside issue, North East ISD provided data for the 2022-2023 school year — 1,482 total discipline conferences with 666 related to THC. “Our DAEP program — especially the secondary middle school and high school levels, they’re not designed to accommodate that number of students,” Kraft said.
“A second chance program academy so that first-time offenders, we have the ability, like I say, to educate students without a full-blown DAEP placement to another campus,” Kraft explained.