Dad sues after son suspended from football team over e-cigarette

Earlier this month, Hoover High School junior A.J. Vega was given a two-day, in-school suspension when a coach noticed the e-cigarette fall from his pocket, according to Fox 8 in Cleveland. The family took no issue with the initial suspension, but the school then decided to suspend Vega for the last month of the football season.

From Fox 8:

The lawsuit does not dispute the school’s policy that tobacco, including e-cigarettes and vapor pens are prohibited on school grounds. But it points to a punishment policy for extra-curricular activities that states in-season violations will result in, “Immediate suspension from 10 percent of the interscholastic sport or activity.”

“The students last year and for many years before, if they had a tobacco-related violation or a vape violation, they were suspended for usually one game,” the attorney said.

Vega already has missed three games, and today is the final game of the regular season. A judge was scheduled to hear the case this morning.

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