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raves +5 posted Aug 18, 2008 09:36PM GMT
Answered No, to no one
This is a job parents should be doing. Perhaps the schools could actually involve the parents for a change rather than exclude and assume they are bad parents.
If the parents were to go to a sex ed meeting then at that meeting they could approve of the school giving out condoms or not. -
raves +3 Aug 18, 2008 09:46PM GMTWas a single parent that bitched because they had open houses when I was working. That said I do know what you mean, my two brothers are teachers and have been at it for more than a little while. Parents just like the kids, some are responsible and others are not, some show up all the time and others never do. So the government and the schools get to put a stamp of approval on underage sex? I'm not buying that.
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raves +2 Aug 19, 2008 01:20PM GMTIdeally, parents SHOULD be involved in their children's upbringing, but often that is not the case. Schools have PTA's that can have a profound effect, but often they are begging for parents to attend meetings. I can't speak for other schools but my son's schools always had them in the evening yet most parents didn't attend.
This kind of parental inattentiveness leaves a vacuum that ends up being filled by the schools, the media and the streets. Which one would you pick? -
raves +2 Aug 20, 2008 10:12PM GMTThe one I did pick. Which that I was involved even though I worked a 53 hour week for over 9 years. This is really a multifaceted problem that needs to start with the government refusing any aid to women that will not name the father of their child and expands from there. I have seen the left mishandle and misdirect too many children. Administrations are so far off of base my left leaning brothers, both teachers are constantly at odds with the districts they work in, so why would I agree to give them more power they will abuse?
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raves +3 Aug 19, 2008 02:28AM GMTI agree that it's not the schools job to teach moral conduct, But health issues are different. Look around at some people, they do not teach their children any morals or anything at all. I just feel if they want and need protection, it's better for society. If your children are moral then you have done a great job. But, look around at Walmart sometime.
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raves +4 Aug 19, 2008 02:35AM GMTI have and it is a very sad situation out there in public. But I have seen the government and the schools make huge mistakes and the agenda of some are such that they shouldn't have that kind of access to shaping a childs mind. That said there was a day and time I might have agreed with you, but that time has passed.
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raves +2 posted Aug 18, 2008 09:31PM GMT
Answered Only to those who want them
Kids shouldn't have sex but more importantly, kids shouldn't get AIDS or other STD's. And this will help some with birth control as well.
However, given parental involvement issues, I think they should only go to those who want them -- perhaps via a parental approval slip. -
raves +4 posted Aug 18, 2008 08:54PM GMT
Answered No, to no one
I think it is the parent's responsibility to educate their children about sex.
BUT unfortunately there are too many parents who are inept or just don't see anything wrong with a 15 or 16 old having a baby. (thank you Jamie Lynn)
We need to teach abstinence (yes, it works) as well as birth control. -
raves +6 posted Aug 18, 2008 08:46PM GMT
Answered Yes, to everyone
We gave condoms to my step-sons when they were teenagers. We told them we wanted them to wait until they were older or married. What we wanted for them and what they wanted may have been two different things. At least this way they got to grow up without the preasures of parenthood. My husband and first wife were teen parents. It was hard on them and the boys.
Condoms and honesty seemed to be the best solution. -
raves +8
Answered Yes, to everyone
We are not going to stop teenage sex, but we can do our best to stop teenage pregnacy