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P’town puts condoms in kids’ hands
Schools making them available to everyone - even first-graders
By Hillary Chabot and Renee Nadeau Algarin | Thursday, June 24, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
Photo by AP (file)
A new policy in Provincetown to make condoms available to even first-graders is being called “absurd” and a frantic overreaction to sex education.
“What’s next? Birth control pills?” asked Kris Mineau, head of the conservative group Massachusetts Family Institute.
“It’s totally absurd,” he said, adding the institute will support parents looking to legally challenge the policy.
Yet school leaders in this tiny tourist town on the tip of Cape Cod said the intent is to counsel kids before they hit the hormone-fueled middle and high school years.
“They are children. They often act without information - on assumption, things they’ve heard, rumor, myth,” said school Superintendent Beth Singer. “I think information is always important for kids.”
Starting in September, students shopping for a free condom must have a heart-to-heart with a counselor - including a talk on abstinence - in order to be given one.
The school will not honor parents’ requests that their children not receive the prophylactic, Singer said.
The superintendent added only one parent contacted her, and he simply asked to be informed ahead of the policy’s implementation so he can talk to his child about the birds and the bees before the condoms are up for grabs. Singer believes that the lack of parental control is what has drawn a storm of media attention to the policy.
The policy was crafted following the recommendation of the town’s health advisory committee, Singer said. The school board unanimously backed the new rule June 10.
Individual school districts are allowed to make their own policies about the distribution of condoms, said Heidi Guarino of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education yesterday.
Starting early is the key, said school board Chairman Peter Grosso.
“The thing is, sexual activity starts younger and younger,” Grosso added. “We don’t know what age that is. So we just said, ‘We’ll make it available to all of them.’ We didn’t want to pick an age, and I really don’t believe we’re going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter.”
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P’town puts condoms in kids’ hands
Schools making them available to everyone - even first-graders
By Hillary Chabot and Renee Nadeau Algarin | Thursday, June 24, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
Photo by AP (file)
A new policy in Provincetown to make condoms available to even first-graders is being called “absurd” and a frantic overreaction to sex education.
“What’s next? Birth control pills?” asked Kris Mineau, head of the conservative group Massachusetts Family Institute.
“It’s totally absurd,” he said, adding the institute will support parents looking to legally challenge the policy.
Yet school leaders in this tiny tourist town on the tip of Cape Cod said the intent is to counsel kids before they hit the hormone-fueled middle and high school years.
“They are children. They often act without information - on assumption, things they’ve heard, rumor, myth,” said school Superintendent Beth Singer. “I think information is always important for kids.”
Starting in September, students shopping for a free condom must have a heart-to-heart with a counselor - including a talk on abstinence - in order to be given one.
The school will not honor parents’ requests that their children not receive the prophylactic, Singer said.
The superintendent added only one parent contacted her, and he simply asked to be informed ahead of the policy’s implementation so he can talk to his child about the birds and the bees before the condoms are up for grabs. Singer believes that the lack of parental control is what has drawn a storm of media attention to the policy.
The policy was crafted following the recommendation of the town’s health advisory committee, Singer said. The school board unanimously backed the new rule June 10.
Individual school districts are allowed to make their own policies about the distribution of condoms, said Heidi Guarino of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education yesterday.
Starting early is the key, said school board Chairman Peter Grosso.
“The thing is, sexual activity starts younger and younger,” Grosso added. “We don’t know what age that is. So we just said, ‘We’ll make it available to all of them.’ We didn’t want to pick an age, and I really don’t believe we’re going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1263608
Related Articles:
Gov. Patrick rivals’ ire spurs school to retool condom policy
/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1263884
Gov. Patrick objects to condom plan
/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1263764
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Comments
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first graders cant even ? lol
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wtf? giving condoms to 6/7 years olds? This is crazy....I wonder whose moneys getting spent to buy all these condoms?
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now thats understandable if there hispanic 6 graders. lol
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Hopefully not necessary and probably a waste of money, but no real harm. The kids are just gonna use them as balloons.
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I don't think nothing is wrong because today, kids are engaging in sexal activity as early as middle school
While I know 1st graders aren't engaging in sexual activity, it nevers hurts to educate them about it -
I kno ? that were getting their ? sucked at 10 years old back in the 90s so I think it's time to start protecting our kindergartners lol.
