The Beautiful, Gay-Friendy, Trendy Provincetown, MA Will Give Out Condoms in Elementary School
High School as Well
Provincetown is located at the tip of Cape Cod. This beautiful, trendy, and very gay-friendly town has a population of fewer than 4,000 people.
Perhaps it is because of the progressiveness of the town that the school district was making condoms available to all students. That is right, folks, every student no matter what their age or grade will be able to get a condom.
This prompted Governor Deval Patrick to get involved. He asked the school district to reconsider their policy, which included not having to have parent approval for giving out the condoms. Am I so out of touch that I cannot believe a third grader would have sex?
Yesterday, July 12, 2010, the policy was looked at but no significant changes were made. According to CapeCodonline the media was told that the student's request and the school's response would be "age-appropriate" and depend on "specific circumstances."
The policy did not change regarding allowing all students to ask for condoms and allowing them condoms without their parents approval.
It seems that along with the condom is a remark that will be made to the student about the student getting counseling - on what exactly? How to put it on? Listen, I am a liberal, left of center baby boomer. I was a very liberal parent and in return have three children none of whom have gotten pregnant, gotten anyone pregnant, or been in trouble. The kids are now 29, 32, and 35.
Still something feels wrong about this policy. I love the idea of having a place for kids in high school to go to get condoms. Let's face it there are many parents who either will never allow pre-marital sex, who don't believe their 14- year old would have sex, or are just denying sex in general - hopefully not in their own bedrooms!
I think children as young as fifth grade should have sex education taught in schools with the knowledge of their parents and the participation of their parents. That worked out great for us because even this liberal parent was not comfortable talking about sex.
The school committee's theory is that only sexually active kids will ask for condoms and that young children don't know about sex. Yet they agree that sexually active kids are getting younger and younger.
On Cape Cod and the Islands two (Falmouth and the island of Nantucket) out of 13 public school districts with high schools offer condoms. Their policies, which are not official ones, is for high schoolers only. Provincetown will start in September.
Sources
Cape Cod Online
New York Daily News
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Post a CommentI wish they had been available and used by Sarah Palin's father. Availability is IMHO good, though learning how to put them on is also important.
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
The Cape is special. Hey, can you hear it over the loud speakers?
Very thought-provoking article. I'm not sure how I think about this. On another note, good old Falmouth! We vacationed there when I was ten years old. We loved it, we were at a big old hotel near a cliff and a path down to the beach.
Even more shocking if you realize that they are our educators. "Mrs. Waller is now giving away condoms to Timmy."