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the board has taken action to fix the underlying
issue of nicotine addiction. Figuring that detentions
and suspensions don’t work, they have spent
excessive resources to hold information programs
for their students and enforcing a new drug policy.
None of the funds from the lawsuit are coming
from the taxpayers or the district either. If there is
any recovery from a settlement or after a trial, the
legal fees will be paid out of that settlement, but
there will be no funds and no taxpayer funds to pay
for the lawsuit.
Although this lawsuit does punish Juul Labs,
FHSD will not blame Juul for students being caught
with vapes on their person. The student is still held
accountable for their behavior. The student will be
punished with in school suspension and will be
go through programs to help with their nicotine
addiction.
The district’s end goal of the lawsuit is to get
reimbursed for the issue they didn’t create, but
that Juul did. FHSD wants the funds reimbursed
(Illustration by Kiley Beiner)
to them that they had to use towards the vaping
problems they have had over the past three years.
They want to be able to pay for the programs and
rehabilitation that is used and the administrators
and professionals that help as well.
If no actions were taken before this, the lawsuit
would seem impractical. But FHSD has spent time
and finances trying to fix a problem that they didn’t
create for their students. Juul has created a mess
that FHSD has had to clean up for the past three
years. The district isn’t using their own funds to pay
for the lawsuit, they have tried other ways to fix the
problem, they aren’t blaming only Juul, but also the
students; FHSD has all their I’s dotted and all their
T’s crossed.
The district cares about their health and well
being of their students. If they win this lawsuit, they
are hoping to be able to cure this vaping epidemic
once and for all with the resources they will be able
to provide, including rehabilitation programs and
help for the students’ addiction with nicotine.
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