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Should Condoms Be Available In Public Schools

I have mixed thought about this. Yes I feel condoms should be available to prevent teen pregnancy , STD'S , and HIV. But on the other hand , making condoms available is not such a good idea. Some parents might see this practice as promoting sex and it's o.k. to have sex. Parents are afraid to admit this , but kids are having sex at a early age now. You can't be around your child 24/7. There's no telling what your child is doing. Do you really know your child ? Think hard and ask yourself.

Edited: darius on 26th May, 2004 - 5:48am

Schools Public In Be Condoms Should

The answer to this question, I feel, is that schools should be under the control of parents and do what parents want them to do.

I would not wish condoms to be available personally, I think example and principle is the way we should look at things - not convenience or other short-term justifications.

Dubhdara.

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No, they should not be available at schools. There are different kinds of parents and even though they may be some parents who are not very concerned about their children and the fact that they are having sex at such young age, there are other parents who hold very high moral standards for their children and they do not agree with this since it means to promote sex somehow. Abstinence should be promoted in my opinion.

Schools Public In Be Condoms Should

Providing condoms to minors on government-owned property is a crime, in my opinion. (Can you say "Brave New World"?) Maybe for some of those kids, having access to condoms will keep them safe from unwanted pregnancy and STD's, but for the majority, it's just giving tacit permission for them to have sex when perhaps they would not, otherwise. There isn't any way I would want my child to be exposed to something like that without my permission or my knowledge.

Who decides what age of kids these are to be provided for? So they are having sex at an earlier age? Well, then put them in the elementary school bathrooms, by gosh, before we have 10-year-olds having babies!! Egad!!

The answer is NOT the school providing condoms for wayward kids - just in case some kid "might" decide to have sex that day. Maybe if the condoms are NOT available, the kid *won't* decide to have sex that day.

The answer IS having PARENTS take responsibility for training their children, teaching them with love and kindness in the right paths of life. No, you can't legislate that, but it's a better answer than providing condoms to vulnerable children.

In my opinion, of course.
Roz

Schools Public In Be Condoms Should

So tell me this. What do you think about sexual education being taught in school ? I remember a time when they did teach it. But if I'm correct , they stop teaching it years ago. Now in the inner city schools , I believe they have sexual education programs and they make condoms available. You would be shocked on what the kids in the inner city know. Kids in the inner city are exposed to sex , drugs , alcohol , and violence at an early age.

Should Condoms Be Available In Public Schools

Kids of any age and location are exposed to those things just by watching TV.

It is not the responsibility of the government to teach my child about sex. The public schools are run by the government.

Any parent who does not teach their own children about life, sex, procreation, love, and the consequences of abusing these God-given gifts, is negligent in the extreme. If we allow the schools, or anyone else, for that matter, to teach our children about these important concepts, we are abdicating our responsibilities to our children and to God. My faith teaches that we, as parents, will be held accountable for not teaching our children.

Ask yourself this: Do you really want some nameless, faceless, God-less committee of elected or appointed politicians to decide when and what your child learns about sex? Or would you prefer to know for sure what your child learns by teaching them yourself? Do you know how much more it will mean to your kids coming from you, than from some clinical, technical, government-created film?

In my not so humble opinion.
Roz

Should Condoms Be In Public Schools

Not all kids have that type of relationship , where they can talk to their parents about sex.Not all parents feel comfortable talking to their kids about sex. This is why I mention sexual education being taught in school. I rather a child learn it from someone who is certified to teach it , and not learn it from the streets. I feel it is a good way to educate the kids who are not so privileged.

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Darius,

The people certified to teach are parents. They are certified by God by virtue of God having bestowed upon them the blessing of having the child in the first place.

School teachers only exist as a matter of convenience as delegates of parents. Genuine teachers cannot, based upon this principle of delegation, teach anything contrary to the parents' wishes.

If parents do not teach their children about procreation then it does not mean government steps in. Parents, though in my opinion negligent for doing so, have the right to not teach their about it - though they have a duty to teach truth and righteousness.

Teachers are "certified" in the world according to the system of belief currently possessed by educators working within or with government - there is no cogent argument to suggest that such certifications are superior to private certification; and there is every reason to believe that motherhood itself provides the best and most authoratative certification.

Should parents not wish to fulfil their responsibilties then extended family and even Churches and other private organizations (if strictly necessary) are there to support them. That these things do not work as they should at all times is only a reflection of governmental monopoly and socialistic attitudes and pressures.

Government schools, in my humble opinion, are unlawful.

Dubhdara.