Posted on 06/19/2006 7:20:06 AM PDT by presidio9
DID you hear about Mayor Bloomberg's new initiatives for city teens? * Although booze is banned at all school functions, the mayor recognizes that many students will drink anyway, especially on prom night. So, for those who choose to be alcoholically active, the city will provide safe transportation home. Inebriated students who accept this ride home won't be disciplined.
* While smoking marijuana is illegal, and students caught with pot in school are suspended and reported to the police, the mayor knows that marijuana sold on the street is often sold laced with other drugs. So the city will provide those students who choose to smoke with small amounts of clean pot at the prom so that no student is exposed to marijuana that may be too powerful or contain other drugs.
* While the city officially encourages students to abstain from sex until they are old enough and mature enough to make good choices, the mayor understands that many won't listen. So, to minimize the risks, the city will make condoms and contraceptives - including "Plan B," the so-called "morning after pill" - available to sexually active teens.
OK, I made the first two up - but not the third. Yet the logic is the same in all three cases. If If anything, since sex can create of another life - and Plan B can function as an abortion drug - the actual policy is the least defensible.
Though it's named the "Healthy Teens Initiative," the program - only a small "pilot" project so far, though likely to grow - has nothing to do with exercise or nutrition. Rather, it dispenses condoms to any teen who wants them - with absolutely no parental involvement, indeed no
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Ye gad. Upstate needs its own state.
should be called the "Horny Teens Initiative" .
From the article: OK, I made the first two up - but not the third.
In our area, schools, in order to cut down on unofficial after prom events.. have made prom all night... dance and then a school sponsored AFTERPROM where basically once you are in, other than an emergency, you aren't allowed to leave until the morning.
Bloomy is well on his way to undoing the good of Guliani.
He needs, what we used to call in the olden days, "an attitude adjustment".
Can you be released from the prom early for good behavior?
List if you want it.
Welcome to NY.
Even if you are a fully grown adult in NYC...
You're not allowed to have guns.
Not allowed to smoke cigarettes in bars and restaurants.
Not even allowed to possess ashtrays.
But your teenaged sons and daughters get to have condoms, contraceptives, and morning after pills handed to them by the government without your knowledge or consent. To add insult to injury, the NYC taxpayers (you Mothers and Fathers), is footing the bill for it.
When he was a teenager going to his prom, his date probably refused to put out.
More mischief from the man who wants to be the first gay midget president. BUY IT! Mike. You've got the money. You can buy anything! I know people who are going to out-of-state doctors so their blood-sugar level doesn't get monitored by Big Stepsister.
Don't we wish. Funny, the school nurse can't give and aspirin or Advil without a parents express permission. The morning after pill has no good track record yet they're willing to risk a kids life without the parents knowledge. A girl can't get her ears pierced without parental permission but can get an abortion. *sigh* This society is in a world of hurt.
Sending your kids to camp is worse. They need a DOCTOR's signed permission to give your kids even OTC medications. A parent's will not do. I can understand about prescription medications, but for cryin' out loud, I can give the kids the stuff myself. Why isn't MY permission good enough?
Oy. It may be hard to be a kid these days, but to my mind it's even harder to be a good parent.
...but he won't let them smoke a cigarette afterwards
He doesnt want to give cancer to the unborn child of the two teens.
They need cancer free aborted fetuses?
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