High schools providing condoms

[mrfish]

Originally posted by SOB
Dammit.  Why do I agree with Ripsnort?!  There's something wrong here...

hehe me too - anyone see a blood red moon or locusts?

on one hand the movement is probably spearheaded by irritating libs that are trying to be parental figures for kids and advance their agenda -but- if a kid happens to have a condom they are likely to use it if they're in that situation. it's not like they'r egoing to avoid sex if they don't have a condom, don't you people remember being a teen?

the implication from some though is that little johnny is going to go to little sally and say "hey, i got a condom, let's get it on!" and she's gonna say "ok!" yeah sheesh----if only it were that easy...

[davidpt40]

NO, IF YOU GIVE PILOTS PARACHUTES THEY ARE JUST GONNA TRY TO BAIL OUT AT ANY LITTLE WHIM.

High school kids are just like adults.  The low class kids are going to have sex no matter what.  They are going to be pressuring girls into having sex.  Might as well give them condoms so we can stop them from breeding other little monsters.

[Kieran]

High school kids are just like adults. The low class kids are going to have sex no matter what. They are going to be pressuring girls into having sex. Might as well give them condoms so we can stop them from breeding other little monsters.

They're gonna drink beer, too. Might as well give them kegs. Oh, and they'll need a safe place to have the kegger, might as well let them have the gym.

Sheesh, where do you draw the line?

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
PS... Yeah, dont listen to one of the few level headed people on the BBS, it might make you consider another viewpoint.

Plenty of level headed people on this BBS. I agree with some of them some of the time.

Consider another viewpoint? That's rich. I'm not in here to modify my viewpoint. Every new discussion brings better understanding of the people I see in the arena. More often than not, I already have a preconceived notion about what anyone will say on any given subject. The best times are when they jump out of the box I've painted them into and come up with something out of character, something that I didn't expect, something that changes the picture in my head that I assign to everyone here.

[mrfish]

Originally posted by Kieran
They're gonna drink beer, too. Might as well give them kegs. Oh, and they'll need a safe place to have the kegger, might as well let them have the gym.

Sheesh, where do you draw the line?

wow this slope is slippery.

for your analogy to work, the schools would have to be giving kids sex, they aren't, they are giving them protection in case they are one of those kids that has sex in highschool of which there are always going to be many.

even if there was a sex gestapo, headed by pat robertson in a black uniform, you'd never stop young people from gettin' it on.

a proper analogy would be more like 'they're going to drink anyway-why don't we just give them table coasters!' see it for what it is.

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by SOB
I was busting Eagler's chops.  Get a life.


SOB

And I was busting yours.  Get a life... eh... sooner!  HAH!  

Jesus...  

[Kieran]

No, Mr. Fish, it does work because the schools would allow a safe way for students to practice drinking.

You're right, it is a slippery slope. I say that about any argument for an act that anyone can see is a bad idea, yet we propose it because we have effectively thrown our hands in the air and said "what're you gonna do?"

I am not going to be a hypocrite and say I don't want the school to give my daughters contraceptives, but it is a good idea for other kids. I guess I'm also a little tired of schools being treated as a cure for social ills, rather than a place of learning.

[AKDejaVu]

I think highschools should only provide condoms for teen drunken homosexual rave parties.  Better safe than sorry.

Oh... and it was much easier when teachers demanded students fear consequences rather than simply act responsible.  Some day teachers will remember that teenagers are not simply small adults.

AKDejaVu

[SOB]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
And I was busting yours.  Get a life... eh... sooner!  HAH!  

Jesus...  

This is between you and me.  Let the INS deal with Jesus.


SOB

[Airhead]

It's time to get sex education out of the public schools and back on the streets where it belongs.

[texace]

Schools nowadays are turning to drastic measures to quell the recent spurt of teen pregnancies. Since many parents were blaming the schools for not teaching the kids the responsability of sex (imagine that, parents blaming the schools!!), so the schools began to issue comdoms as a way to save face.

As unorthodox and illogical as that sounds, it's probably the most likely solution. The attitude of "Hey, now we're trying!" is a way to stop further complaints against the schools for poor parenting.

What do you guys think?

[moose]

The choir angels are always the most repressed. Heh.

[bounder]

Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
Treat kids like pets... neuter and spay the lil' bastards, solves the pregnancy issue atleast.

Hey! Don't need abortions no more either!

Two birds with one stone.
-SW

And the end of the human race as we know it

[Dowding (Work)]

Life must have been so much sweeter in the '50s. There were no teenage pregnancies. There were no drugs. Everybody could go about their business and there was lots of personal responsibility. Everything was just peachy. Black, white, whatever your colour - everybody knew their place and got along just fine. Violence was something that happened in the movies. Why can't we go back to that rose-tinted age, when there were no social ills to confront?

[Kieran]

Take two sheets of paper, draw a line down the middle. On the top of one put "Then- 50's". On the top of the other put "Now". On the left-hand column of both place the responsibilities of parents with respect to what they taught their kids. On the right place the responsibilities of the schools with respect to the kids.

See if you can figure out any reason in the decline in the quality of education.