Should they give out Condoms in School?

Yes I think they should be there for the asking at the nurses office in High Schools!
This does not mean I am for young people having sex but it can help prevent teenage pregnancy and Std's!

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Posted by allure

Yes I think they should be there for the asking at the nurses office in High Schools!
This does not mean I am for young people having sex but it can help prevent teenage pregnancy and Std's!

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I agree, I dont think they should be physically 'handing them out' but they should be made available through the nurses office.

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Posted by skprmiss

wasn't this a 90210 episode???

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ROFL...didn't donna say something about if you have a swimming pool you ave to teach your kids how to swim?

I don't think they should be. beside all the water ballons it is goign to create. . .I do think it will add pressure for those students that aren't sexually active, but deel if it is a big enough issue to be in the bathrooms, then they msut be the only ones not doing it!
If sex ed is taught in a school, safe sex should be expalined as well as abstinence.

Did anyone have un safe sex because they couldn't afford condoms? Maybe people do, but I always thought it was more of an issue of not knowing or not caring.

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Posted by DebsNY

I think they should. I know down here where I teach they only teach abstinance... and there are more pregnancies in the middle and high schools that i ever thought possible... maybe if they supplied condoms, and taught safer sex, that number would go down.

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I have to say, I have become a lot less naive, but I too have seen a staggering number of girls get pregnant. And I am talking about 8th graders. These kids are just too unsupervised and unfortunately many of them are practically raising themselves. I had a student whose mother was my age (33 now). She was super-smart, and she got pregnant last year, right after finishing 8th grade. So her mother became a grandmother in her early 30s. I can't imagine that. It would not eradicate the problem but I think it would cut it down.

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Posted by don424

i think a dispenser should be put in the boys room

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why just the boys room? i say that girls should be equally responsible

no.
while they should be educated on the subject they shouldn't be handed out. If you are old enough to have sex you should be old enough to buy a condom and take responsibility. I know I was- I was raised right and the right types of values were passed on to me by my parents.. it is the job of parents, not the school- to pass on these values.. the school can reinforce them.. but I don't think condoms should be given out. I don't think it condones the behavior- but I think in order to have sex you should take the responsibility on yourself to be an adult about it and buy the condoms.

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Posted by smm2675

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Posted by don424

i think a dispenser should be put in the boys room

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why just the boys room? i say that girls should be equally responsible

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i stand corrected -- boith bathrooms

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Posted by Sassyz75

no.
while they should be educated on the subject they shouldn't be handed out. If you are old enough to have sex you should be old enough to buy a condom and take responsibility. I know I was- I was raised right and the right types of values were passed on to me by my parents.. it is the job of parents, not the school- to pass on these values.. the school can reinforce them.. but I don't think condoms should be given out. I don't think it condones the behavior- but I think in order to have sex you should take the responsibility on yourself to be an adult about it and buy the condoms.

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Unfortunatly many kids are not given the guidence by the parents that they need to make these sorts of decisions. In many cases, the school is all the stability they've got. I'm currently student teaching in a very low income area... I've got one girl who's mom has a new boyfriend living with them every other week, another boy with 11 siblings, from 6 different fathers. I really doubt that these kids are getting the attention that they need to be able to make adult decisions. Having condoms availible in schools may not remedy the problem, but could hopefully lead to less transfer of STD's, and less teen pregnancy.

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Posted by DebsNY

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Posted by Sassyz75

no.
while they should be educated on the subject they shouldn't be handed out. If you are old enough to have sex you should be old enough to buy a condom and take responsibility. I know I was- I was raised right and the right types of values were passed on to me by my parents.. it is the job of parents, not the school- to pass on these values.. the school can reinforce them.. but I don't think condoms should be given out. I don't think it condones the behavior- but I think in order to have sex you should take the responsibility on yourself to be an adult about it and buy the condoms.

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Unfortunatly many kids are not given the guidence by the parents that they need to make these sorts of decisions. In many cases, the school is all the stability they've got. I'm currently student teaching in a very low income area... I've got one girl who's mom has a new boyfriend living with them every other week, another boy with 11 siblings, from 6 different fathers. I really doubt that these kids are getting the attention that they need to be able to make adult decisions. Having condoms availible in schools may not remedy the problem, but could hopefully lead to less transfer of STD's, and less teen pregnancy.

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In a perfect world parents would teach their kids that sex is sacred, but unfortunately situations like the one Deb describes are very common. I too have had kids whose mothers had children with different fathers. Those kids will repeat the cycle of what they see at home, more often then not.

I had another student who had a scare with his girlfriend when he was in my 8th grade class. And this was a good kid, with attentive parents who took good care of him. Kids are curious by nature, even when they have stable homes.

I think so. Kids are going to do it anyway. I will say I don't think they should be handed out and I don't like the idea about the nurses office and stuff. I like Don's Idea of the bathrooms because I will tell Ive been having sex for like 8 years and have not once bought condoms Mike always did I know I know 'you shouldn't have sex then' Like I don't understand why some places lock them up. Its bad enough to have to buy them but to have to ask for them

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Posted by don424

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Posted by smm2675

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Posted by don424

i think a dispenser should be put in the boys room

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why just the boys room? i say that girls should be equally responsible

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i stand corrected -- boith bathrooms

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i agree...
1. i don't see how a condom dispenser is added pressure to anyone...the pressure is already there..There are tampon dispensers there and i never felt any pressure to use those?
2 having it in a nurses office would just go to waste. NOBODY will go into the nurses office and ask for them.
3. And although i do believe sex ed should be a family discussion...let's face it..not a lot of parents do it.
4. I am 31 years old and have yet to go into a drug store and buy condoms...Again a lot of pressure for a 16 year old to do and would just not bother.