Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:03 AM
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Should Elementary Schools Give Condoms to Students?
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/elementary-schools-give-condom...
When kindergarten through fifth grade students return to class at Veterans Memorial Elementary School in Provincetown, Mass., this fall, they'll be able to ask the school nurse for condoms.
A controversial new policy in Provincetown will allow at Provincetown's elementary school students access to condoms. School committee members unanimously approved the new policy last week, which allows students to request condoms from the school nurse or a counselor, even if their parents object.
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:07 AM
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3. This is the kind of stuff that gives fodder to the right wing.
Now they will accuse us of "passing out condoms" in the public schools.
Why would a kindergartner need a condom, or even know what they are for?
Warpy (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:15 AM
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10. I knew someone who was the school tart at eleven
and that was over 50 years ago. It happens. She had scars from it, but at least those were the days of condom dispensers in men's rooms so she didn't present her parents with a grandchild at eleven or twelve, abortion being illegal.
I prefer the open bowl of condoms in the nurse's office, available to grab without comment. Every nurse I ever worked with who had kids over twelve had a box of condoms in a drawer in the kitchen and replenished it as necessary, again without comment.
One thing parents need to realize is that they don't own their children's bodies and that their children have the right to make stupid decisions. Allowing them access to something that will avoid having them die from those decisions is the right thing to do.
We might find it sad that a ten year old child would need condoms. However, it's unrealistic to think that they don't.
sufrommich (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:27 AM
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There is no such thing as an 11 year old "tart". Any girl or boy
sexually active at 10 or 11 probably has been abused at some point. Handing them a condom and saying "sorry about your short lived childhood,kid" is not the answer.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:49 AM
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28. You need to get one thing through your head
and that it's the kid's decision, not yours.
Greyhound (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 01:31 PM
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77. No, I say that children taking their new toys out for a test drive is to be expected
and there;s nothing wrong with that. Like drugs, though not completely benign, attempts to impose a prohibition on it is more harmful with far reaching unintended consequences.
daleanime (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 01:09 PMNo, you can't be that much of an ignoramous.
Response to Reply #59
66. I think you answer your own question....
What's a Bar/Bat-Mitzvah? Doesn't sound very Christian to me.
Raksha (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 02:03 PMI'm not being a spelling nazi here, I just thought it was funny, inventing things out of condoms. :lmao:
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84. That could happen if the word gets around the school that taking a condom from the nurse's office will result in an invention.
Forkboy (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 01:26 PMForkboy's ghey, isn't he? Oh man......
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75. Kindergarten seems a little young, but as someone who lost their virginity at age 11....
Nope, I refuse to go over there and read any of that garbage . . . just the excerpts provided are enough to cause a stroke! That's just disgusting . . . Warpy has a very apropos name. :censored:
I hate to say this but I went to school with a person who would fit Warpy to a tee. Even more scary, there was also an eleven year old tart who liked the older boys. Her home life was not the best IIRC.
One thing parents need to realize is that they don't own their children's bodies and that their children have the right to make stupid decisions. Allowing them access to something that will avoid having them die from those decisions is the right thing to do.
I can't even come up with the words of how ****ed up these people are!
I can't even come up with the words of how ****ed up these people are!
1. Anybody here remember when schools taught academic subjects?
2. God out; condoms in. Gotcha.
C'mon, zeit--does this REALLY surprise you? After all, it IS P-town.
A result of unleashed liberals. We need to get conservatives back into education. That's the only way this type of ridiculousness would go away.
1. Anybody here remember when schools taught academic subjects?
2. God out; condoms in. Gotcha.
femmocrat (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:07 AM
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3. This is the kind of stuff that gives fodder to the right wing.
Now they will accuse us of "passing out condoms" in the public schools.
Why would a kindergartner need a condom, or even know what they are for?
femmocrat (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-24-10 10:07 AMYet someone (most likely a liberal) in Massachusetts thought it was necessary. :whatever:
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3. This is the kind of stuff that gives fodder to the right wing.
Now they will accuse us of "passing out condoms" in the public schools.
Why would a kindergartner need a condom, or even know what they are for?
The superintendent will get fired for this -- the state is having a cow. I imagine the commissioner will be intervening shortly.
EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon. But let's face it--if Deville's polling numbers weren't such total shit, he would be applauding the P-town pickle-puffing idiots...
LINK (http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/provincetown_school_condom_policy.html)
I firmly believe that this country needs another civil war.
Be careful what you wish for.
Be careful what you wish for.**** that shit!!!111
Why?
We're headed that way, IMO. When it happens, think Rwanda 1994 times about a hundred. Sure, most of us will survive, at least past the first kill-off of lefties, but then . . . there will be bands of . . . well, thugs, essentially, that will take whatever they need from those that have it--and kill all who get in their way.
It will be horrific.
Sounds like the makings of a movie. Maybe Kevin Costner can play the lead.NO NO NO!!!111
Sounds like the makings of a movie. Maybe Kevin Costner can play the lead.
Sheesh. Don't you guys watch the TV. The scenario mentioned is right from "The Postman."
It's not the only "End of Days" movie scenario. Escape from NY, Mad Max, etc........
I know that. The BlueStates post is right from "The Postman" though.
Not saying the description of Armageddon was taken from anything other that his feeling of the resulting aftermath. It's just his description and the movie are closely related.
Ya know what's strange? I've never heard of that movie until this thread, or the storyline. If you had never told me that the theme was what it was, I would have thought that it would have been a biopic of miskie . . . :tongue:
What's next handing out cigs and beer in pre school?
Sending home pot plants to fifth grade students?
Yet if a conservative wants to teach their preteen or teen child to safely hunt these goons have a fit.