Bracelet Fad Among Middle-Schoolers Said Linked to Sex

The (Ocala) Ledger ^ | 10.14.03 | STEVEN RAY HABERLIN

[T Minus Four]

I bought two dozen of these bracelets, and they don't work

LOL!! Nice try, but better hope Gertie doesn't find out!

[Dog Gone]

They don't work on her, either. ;-)

[apillar]

YES, we have found the solution!

Just take away their bracelets and your kids will NEVER engage in any sexual activity!

Why didn't we think of this years ago?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah ....

But by the time the "adults" among us have found out, not only has the damage been done, but the middle-schoolers have gone on to the next fad. What one group does is mimiced and copied, but what they're really doing is probably not exactly what the article says. (SOME are doing worse, some nothing, some only "say" they're doing it to feel like the in crowd. )

Then, two years later, the school administratiors respond .... to a problem that no longer exists.

By which time, the kids resist by doing something even more atrocious.

(By the way, isn't this part of the "socialization" that the NEA says homeschoolers are missing out on?)

[TxBec]

why.. yes it is, Robert.

[r9etb]

YIKES ! Ihope you didn't pull off her bracelet !

He did. Unfortunately, it was a puke-green bracelet and, had Mr. EA bothered to look up the code, he would have realized that to grab said color entitled the grabber to a swift kick in the testicles....

[gcruse]

This is my new home town, Ocala. It seems my depravities made the trip from Texas with me. LOL :p

[Cathryn Crawford]

This is my new home town, Ocala. It seems my depravities made the trip from Texas with me. LOL :p

Texas misses you! :-)

[FourPeas]

You're close. There are two kinds of people in the world, those who can count, those who can't and those who don't.

[gcruse]

:)

[JonathansMommie]

My husband kept breaking his own bracelets.

[gcruse]

Is that kinky?

[honeygrl]

hmm... I wonder why they think banning the bracelets will stop any of what is going on? How about actually paying attention to what the kids are doing instead?

[JonathansMommie]

LOL..... I plead the fifth.

[Mid-MI Student]

But sex, researchers say, is on the minds of more and more middle school students. A recent study shows that one out of five have had sexual intercourse by age 15. One out of seven get pregnant by the same age.

That means, 7 out of 35 have sex, and 5 out of 35 get pregnant. so 5 out of 7 girls having sex by the age of 15 will be pregent. 70%?

[Carb_Addict]

Hell, I had these when I was in middle school...back in the 80's.

What is next to make a come back?....the big shoelaces worn as ties?...the safety pins with beads worn on shoes and jackets?...or one of the other silly things we did to seem cool?

[flutters]

Why didn't we think of this years ago?

We were too busy playing 'Truth or Dare'.