Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should’ve looked into posting this in a different community… It’s closer to a silly “innovation”… soo… is this considered FUD? I also don’t support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had “privacy-violating” before the “solution”.

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    In my high school they managed to rip the alarm’s siren off the wall without triggering it; if these kids have even an 1/8 th of the ingenuity they had, these things aren’t gonna last

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      Its amazing the number of problems in life that can be solved with a $2 harbor freight automatic punch. Speakers especially.

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      A very long time ago, and much less technologically advanced:

      I went to boarding school. We had a little bit of a propensity for sneaking out of the dorm at night.

      New dean comes in our senior year and installs alarms on all the exits.

      Our senior year time capsule contains the controlling keypad to that alarm system that wasn’t even functional for twenty four hours.

      I’ve no doubt that today’s teens possess the ingenuity to bypass if not completely disable this thing.

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          It has to have the vape fumes get to the sensor. Cover the sensor with the bag, tie off with rubber band. No more ability to sense what can’t get there.

          I, in no way, am endorsing vaping, especially with kids.

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      Do kids prefer to not have doors then? Because I’m reading a lot of messed up headlines where the school removes the stall and bathroom doors and kids lose their privacy.

      I’d rather have the TV with an alert than have to do competitive pooping.

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          It’s a separate but adjacent problem.

          No school should ever be allowed to take the doors off bathroom stalls.

          That just seems to be the alternative that don’t places are doing to deal with kids congregating in the bathroom to vape.

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      That seems like a management issue.

      They can see the time it went offline and then the time you walked out of the bathroom. It doesn’t take much to put it together.

      Also I think these devices are designed to be resistant to tampering.

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        A piece of clear packing tape would take it out permanently as it would be almost impossible to see that the sensor was covered if the tape was applied cleanly.

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          You’ve seen packing tape in real life, right? It’s not “almost impossible to see”, it’s shiny and obvious. As much as I love skirting draconian measures, that ain’t it…

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            Nobody is going to inspect it that closely, especially if they mount it on the ceiling. It does blend into certain plastics that are smooth.