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Originally posted by 12dn94dst:
what's your rationale for waiting until high school? i'm not saying send the 4th graders home with a bag full of condoms, jelly, foam, etc., just have them available in the nurse's (do schools still have nurses? they've cut funding for everything else) or principal's office.
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When you asked the question of rationale, my first thought went to my 12 year old niece. Last week she told her mother that she was going to the mall with her (girl)friend. When my brother went to go pick her up she was caught at the mall with a sixteen year old boy that was her friends older brother. I know she is starting to have thoughts and ideas about the whole sex things but if you issue a condomn/pill, etc. to a child you are simply stating that now you have a choice of having sex the safe way or not.
But if you break down my last sentence it is saying to me that the nurse/school official is thinking that they are having sex anyway, why not give them the choice of having it the safe way (condom/pill) or not the safe way (no condomn/pill.)
I really hope that my 12 year old niece is thinking about getting her groove on by kissing this boy and things like that but not "going all the way" (remember that
). It should probably be in the office but if someone asks for it they would have to go to some kind of class/seminar first before it is issued by a school official.
I also would like to relate that I see no problem with giving a class/seminar about sex ed in schools other than Highschools but I just don't agree with giving out the condomns.
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