LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Lee County School District is taking action to make schools safer.
Lee County School Board approved to add positions for a Safety and Security Attendant at 11 high schools. A spokesperson for the district Rob Spicker says the attendants will be another set of eyes at the school, monitoring hallways and bathrooms.
Spicker says their primary purpose is to stop students from vaping.
“The number of students caught smoking, vaping, these days has nearly quadrupled from just a couple of years ago. It has just skyrocketed. And so this is another person as well to help enforce that,” Spicker said.
Cindy Titi, a parent of two students at Cape Coral High School, is not convinced the district’s solution will solve the e-cigarette problem.
“I’m not sure if it will help the vaping… cause kids always know a way around that kind of stuff,” Titi said.
She’s in favor of more security at the schools so students will see another familiar face in the halls.
“The more officers that know the kids and know their faces, and the more interaction personal they have with these kids… maybe that will stop the vaping,” Titi said.
Don Armstrong doesn’t think it’s enough. Although his two children aren’t enrolled in high school yet, he wants more safety measures implemented when they get there.
“That really is just putting a bandaid on the problem. Each school is different with their own different problems, ” Armstrong said.
The district is deciding which high schools will add a security attendant based on the number of vaping offenses and students.
