Posted on 10/16/2007 8:13:38 AM PDT by Abathar
Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School's health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.
The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center's practice of providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city's student health centers.
If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Most middle schoolers are ages 11-13.
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LOL. And being 6th grade children (condoms for 6th graders - yikes!) who forget their homework and leave the water running and lose their cellphones, and on and on, they will surely remember to use condoms responsibly. /s (Not holding breath.)
When my son was a sixth grader, he had (still does) encyclopedic knowledge on cars, how they run, etc., but he wasn't ready to drive one!
The reality these public schools in low-income areas face, is that they’ve got a huge number of kids from homes where there are no adults who have any objection to their adolescent offspring having sex, having babies, using drugs, etc., and started doing all those things themselves as adolescents. The best the schools can do is try to break the cycle by at least getting the girls through high school without having babies.
BEEN THERE! DONE THAT! I don’t know which is more frustrating for me when I am trying to inform others, the “deer in the headlights” look I get or the “you are crazy” look.
Ditto. And the 'I don't want to know/get involved/rock the boat' look.
None, as long as the parents are paying for the pills and condoms, as well the time of the 'health facilitators', and no taxpayer money is being used. (But I bet that's not the case.)
“The best the schools can do is try to break the cycle by at least getting the girls through high school without having babies.”
The best the schools can do is create an atmosphere where having sex with everyone and anyone is considered beneath a decent girl’s dignity. Why should young girls be encouraged to be whores without pay at that age? How does that help them become adults? It doesn’t. Self respect and some standards will help these children more than the generational sophistry of low expectations of “they’ll just do it anyway,” kind of lies. Not if you teach them better.
“Ditto. And the ‘I don’t want to know/get involved/rock the boat’ look.”
Who can forget the “How do you find the time to stay involved/I don’t have the time/I’m late for soccer practice look.
OMG, that is so true! As though soccer is the new religion. And I say this as a soccer fan who put her son in soccer when he was in grade school. Sigh. Or being involved in one's child's life is some big chore to be endure. Double sigh.
Heck of a lot cheaper for the taxpayers to pay for this, than to pay for babies born to adolescents. In other words, adding BC to this health center’s offerings is a huge net cost savings to the taxpayers.
“The best the schools can do is create an atmosphere where having sex with everyone and anyone is considered beneath a decent girl’s dignity”
This is true, but it shouldn’t be the only thing that a school does. The Pill prevents abortions, that is a fact. To restrict its availability, whatever your motives for doing so, causes abortions.
There is another possibility to which you fail to give due consideration. Little girls don’t necessarily HAVE to be sex toys.
A quick sterilization would be even cheaper. I'd be willing to foot that bill. ;)
Schools have no business handing out birth control. I don’t care if they provide healthcare for low income children that otherwise wouldn’t get any, but I think it is ridiculous that they are providing birth control. There is nothing the parents can do about it either. They are stuck between having their child get medical care at school (maybe that’s the only they get at all) and the possibility the school might give their children birth control. Schools should not be providing birth control at all because in doing so they are saying it is ok for the kids to have sex. Why not provide cigarette filters and clean needles because you never what the kids will do? Teach them the value of abstinence and waiting till marriage. They can learn what birth control is, but they sure as heck don’t have to be given it. If the parents want to give it to them outside of school, there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The school sure as heck doesn’t have to give it to them.
At 11 years old, I was still playing with stuffed animals, dolls, and toys. It’s a shame the sex positive agenda seeks to have children sexually active at all ages and the family destroyed. Why can’t we preserve the innocence of children and let kids be kids?
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I know it is not accurate 100% but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit
I know there was rumors of dividing the court but I haven’t heard anything lately.
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