If they can buy booze and dope, they can buy their own condoms....the schools should keep their hands out of it...that is my point
I also agree that schools should provide condoms. As previously mentioned, multiple times, (most) kids are going to have sex..regardless if condoms are readily available or not. In regards to your comment above about the schools "promoting" sex, I don't believe that is the case at all, they are simply taking precautionary measures to prevent accidental pregnancies and STD's. The schools have my vote on this one
I don't think they are really "promoting" kids to have sex... More along the lines of protecting them. I think we all went through sex Ed somewhere in 5-8th grades. I think the guys/girls who take those condoms available were going to have sex anyways. I'm not sure high schoolers are thinking "the school is giving away free condoms, lets take them because they're free and go have sex!" 100% for it. Protects pregnancy and STD's. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If this topic is such a big deal, why aren't you more worried about the drugs that they can buy? I think that is the much bigger problem than some kids banging in a truck on a back road... lmao
I get Tony's point. The schools might as well provide booze and drugs, I mean the kids are going to do it anyway. And I agree with the undermining of the parents. I know I am going to try like hell to instill in my now 9 yo daughter to abstain from sex until out of high school, hell until she is 30. But I do not need the school to make my job as a parent harder because some kids have POS parents who do not care.
Tony sad as it seems many parents almost expect the schools to raise their kids in a way. I am against it but schools have to serve the lowest common denominater.
Keeping condoms away or handing them is not going to change anything. Kids will have sex. To use alcohol or drugs as an example is kind of ridiculous. Those things are illegal to kids of that age. Last time I checked sex and condoms were legal.
In life all our actions in one way or another support or reinforce ideas. Those of you stating this doesn't mean schools are encouraging or supporting teenage or pre-marital sex in my opinion are delusional. How does that not send a positive or good message about sex at that age? Here ya go Johnny, take a condom it is perfectly normal and A-okay to have sex, stop abstaining and fighting the urge. Now those saying they are gonna do it anyways the schools are just doing a service they should do...um, okay than the schools should provide the day after pill, free shuttle service for drunk/incapacitated moments and free daycare services for when the condom or day after pill doesn't get the job done. This country is well overdue for a change in how we teach and raise the younger generation, they think they're old enough to do the sacred thing known as sex than why the hell are they not old enough to accept the consequences and buy they're own protection?! Freaking stop making life easier for them to keep being idiots. Just my personal opinion and I know I fall in the minority on this and I am 100% fine with that.
As a parent I want to dictate what is and is not allowed. I do not want my kids drinking, drugging or having sex. I do not want the school side stepping me on any of those issues.
I remember when I had the talk with my son. I explained that anytime his willy is out of his pants he could make a baby, I also explained what having a child before marriage does to one's life time earnings. I told him that I would buy him condoms if he was ever active. My wife told my daughter the same thing. Sex is so different from when I was young with the diseases heck sex can kill you.
Ty you may be too young to remember when Ronald Regan was president but when Nancy Regan was first lady she had a campaign to deal with drug use and sex and teenagers. It was the Just Say No campaign, encouraging kids to just say no to sex and drugs and drinking. As you can guess it failed miserably.
Rest assured that the schools are not promoting sex. They will still be preaching the same abstinance message they have for years and teenagers will still do the same thing they have been doing for years and have sex. You can educate all you want but as long as there there are hormones and desires in them they are going to give in to their lust. I say better to protect them from all the diseases out there than let them go unprotected because they are too embarrassed to buy their own. If you put a pool in your back yard and tell your kids not to swim in it you can be sure that at some point they will be in the pool. Wouldn't you rather know that they know how to swim than to just let them jump in?
That information is relevant to the thread as several here have stated the schools are trying to make decisions for their kids. Here is some news for ya....kids know about sex wether schools make condoms available or not.
Providing condoms to kids at school is not a solution. This is a product of the society we live in. I will tell you what I mean. This country throws money at problems instead of going after the source. In many cases, kids today are not taught at home about the dangers that can arise from having unprotected sex. Most kids learn about sex from friends, siblings or people at school. So to look like they are doing something, here is a vain attempt to solve a problem by spending money. When actually, it helps promote the issue. Where is the money coming from to buy these condoms? Every time you turn on the TV, you see segments of teacher's being underpaid and schools not having adequate teaching supplies for classes. Maybe I am confused. But to me it reflects the society we live in. I will give you a more practical example of this country, throwing money at problems, instead of addressing the cause. A lot of people, intentionally, drive cars with no insurance. When and if they are in an accident, they pay a few fines and are let go. Who is stuck with the cost of the repairs? The INSURED MOTORIST! So what did Insurance Companies do? They charge us EVERY MONTH, for UNINSURED Motorist Insurance. Just in case we are ever in accident with an uninsured motorist. Then, they can "recoup" some of their losses when they have to pay. They said, "Well, people are going to drive without insurance anyways, so let's do something to HELP." But are they really helping? No, I think not! I call it "Fertilizing Foolishness" and this is a perfect example of it! So here is a school that wants to look like they are doing something to help, when actually it isn't. To address this issue goes far beyond the school. Very little is held sacred in this country anymore. Virginity or abstinence lost it's appeal DECADES ago. Do that mean you do nothing? No! But you definitely don't do this! Just my .02!
I pretty much agree with what you're saying here. I heard that you could get condoms from the nurse when I was in high school, but I never verified that. I think some attitude change is necessary. You know, sex is supposed to be part of marriage, not engaged in willy-nilly while on a "date." My mother taught me all about marriage and sex when I was eight. And I got a couple refresher courses as I matured. The urge to mate is a powerful drive, but it can be controlled. And the urge to mate is not just the urge to have sex. I had one date with two different boys when I was a high school freshman. After the second one, I complained to my mother that it was a pretty crummy experience. She asked me if I was interested in marrying these boys. I told her I was not. Then she told me it was stupid to be spending time with a boy unless you were interested in him as a potential husband. So I stopped dating until I met my husband. My husband was my first and only. To say that kids will do it anyway is kind of weak. My mother taught me that a girl's focus should be on forming a strong marital relationship with a man who would be a good husband. Being young is not just for having fun. It's really a time for learning to be an adult. And sex is part of a marital relationship which is an adult thing.
