r/Infuriating • u/Remote_Direction_798 • 1d ago
Teachers were convinced I was vaping
For some context im a new student in 11th grade at a new highschool going back to school after being homeschooled since 7th. We are about 6 weeks into the school year. I do dual enrollment so I only have 2 classes everyday, 4th and 5th hour, but then stay 6th hour and then go to musical rehearsals after school.
Yesterday I decided to sit in one of the bathrooms for probably about 20 minutes during 6th hour. All the available classrooms for me to sit in were noisy but the bathrooms are empty and quiet so I decided to go sit there and just do some schoolwork on my cromebook. Genuinely it was no big deal, I just sat in one of the stalls and worked for probably 20-25 minutes.
At once point someone came in and I could hear her lanyard so I knew it was a staff member and she went "is anyone in here?" Assuming it was a janitor waiting to clean at the end of the day, I just said yeah that I was going pee. I thought it was no big deal.
After another like 10 minutes I got up and left the bathroom and there were people waiting outside for me. Our principal, our school police officer, and some random ass old lady. They made me come to the office and wouldnt tell me what's wrong the whole way there, then told me that the whole time I was in the bathroom the vape alarms were going off.
I've never vaped, don't want to, don't think I ever will. I was so scared that I had done something wrong however that I was already shaking and nearly crying so I probably looked guilty as hell. They checked all my clothes and all the stuff I had in my pockets and when they didn't find anything showed me the school vape alarm system, and sure enough for the whole 20 minutes I was in there it was going off the WHOLE TIME.
My favorite teacher was sitting there while they checked all my clothes and he didn't look at me once. I was so scared and defensive of myself that it probably made me look more guilty. They probably think I threw a vape away or flushed it or some bullshit. I don't want to be the new student that the officer and principal hate, I don't know what even to do. I was too scared to go to the bathroom at school at all today and have been crying nonstop from being overwhelmed about it for hours now
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u/ChocolichKing 11h ago
You're too worried and anxious about it, but I get it. Does your school have a library? A student hanging out in the bathroom that long who is not actually using the bathroom is going to raise alarms. You need to find a better place to do your schoolwork. But obviously they have no proof you didn't anything wrong, you're not really in trouble, if you're worried about how you're being perceived, just focus now on being a good student and people will forget. If the school went through the trouble of installing a vape alarm, it's probably a problem with the other kids and they are being very strict about it (understandably). You just got caught up because you didn't know.
Just relax, do your best, and don't hang out in the bathroom anymore.