Perhaps the policy explains this:
"The policy was approved as the school system contends with a dramatic drop in enrollment — down from 500 students in 1980 to 152 this year. The School Committee recently announced that the high school will close in 2013. The school had 66 students this year; 36 are enrolled for this fall"
Yeah, I would be pulling my kid out of their sick schools, too.
"Condoms, secrecy for Provincetown pupils; Parents, official criticize policy" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | June 24, 2010
Students in Provincetown — from elementary school to high school — will be able to get free condoms at school under a recently approved policy that takes effect this fall. The rule also requires school officials to keep student requests secret, and ignore parents’ objections.
Yeah, it is ONLY YOUR KID!
“The intent is to protect kids,’’ said School Superintendent Beth Singer, who wrote the policy that the Cape Cod town’s School Committee unanimously passed two weeks ago. “We know that sexual experimentation is not limited to an age, so how does one put an age on it?’’
Then get rid of all the statutory rape laws and stop hassling the priests.
I do NOT WANT my kid "experimenting."
“It’s about availability,’’ said committee chairman Peter Grosso. “We’re not handing ’em out like M&M’s.’’
The policy, which requires school nurses to supply condoms to any student who asks, drew criticism yesterday from some parents, a family-advocacy group, and even the town manager, who expressed alarm that children would be able to acquire condoms beginning next school year.
But Singer assured critics that, despite the strict wording of the policy, its practical application will be more flexible, and that not every child who requests a condom will necessarily get one. For example, if a student in the early elementary school grades requests a condom, the nurse will ask the student a series of questions and almost certainly deny them, she said.
Almost certainly?
And what is this no to some? Some kids not worth saving?
“If that were to happen, we would deal with it in a professional and appropriate way,’’ she said. “I don’t anticipate that this policy is going to affect youngsters. It’s there for adolescents.’’
I really am stunned at the s***-headed school committee, I really am.
Several high schools in the state make condoms available to students. While complete data were unavailable yesterday, Provincetown’s policy to make them available with no age restriction, and declare parents’ objections irrelevant, seemed to set it apart.
What ABSOLUTE ARROGANCE!
Jeanmarie Kaeselau, 41, who has a fifth- and an eighth-grader in the school system, said she would be uncomfortable with her younger son coming home with school-issued condoms.
“That’s a little weird,’’ she said. “I’d rather have him come to me.’’
But Kaeselau will not have a say. The policy, first reported in the Provincetown Banner, keeps parents from knowing if their children receive condoms, and mandates that school officials can choose to supply them even if parents object.
Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, blasted the policy as an “absolute push to promote sexual promiscuity.’’
YUP!
“This is the theater of the absurd to hand condoms to first-graders who don’t even know what their purpose possibly could be, who can’t even spell sex,’’ he said. “And it’s a gross violation of parents’ rights.’’
Isn't that why the schools exist?
Town Manager Sharon Lynn said she would prefer a system that requires parental consent until children reach a certain age.
“I think the parents should be responsible for [their children], and know what their children are doing,’’ Lynn said in an interview.
But Michele Couture, chairwoman of the Board of Selectmen, said that when it comes to sex, safety is paramount.
Then that elementary school kid "almost certainly" gets them, right?
“I don’t know, you don’t want to take away a parent’s right to decide what’s right for their child,’’ she said. “But it’s unrealistic to think that a parent saying no to condoms means the child’s going to say no to sex. They’re still going to have sex; they’re just not going to have a condom.’’
And it is OUTRAGEOUS to think that it is the SCHOOL'S PLACE is handing out condoms!
The policy began this spring when the school district’s Wellness Committee, an independent board of residents, recommended making condoms available at school. The School Committee then enlisted Singer, the superintendent, to write a proposal.
At a public, televised meeting on June 8, the five-member School Committee voted 4 to 0 to approve Singer’s plan. (One member was absent.) “No one came to comment,’’ Singer said, noting the issue had been on the agenda for weeks....
The policy was approved as the school system contends with a dramatic drop in enrollment — down from 500 students in 1980 to 152 this year. The School Committee recently announced that the high school will close in 2013. The school had 66 students this year; 36 are enrolled for this fall.
Yesterday, the town leaders were already speaking for and against the condom rule.
Lynn, the town manager, said she received angry calls and e-mails yesterday not only from local residents but from as far away as California....
But Grasso said any student who wants a condom, preschoolers and up, should get one.
But they would "almost certainly" be denied.
Sick of being LIED TO, America?
“As the grades get lower, the possibility gets lower,’’ he said, “but we’re not going to pick an age.’’
Translation: We like to pump any pooper we can find!
Also see: Gay Bigots Reside in Massachusetts
Volcanoes of Poop in Provincetown
Yeah, I thought their town stunk.
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