Should condoms be made available in America's public high schools?

Question

What message does this send?

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I am opposed to the idea but for education on contraception.

Answer 1

no. When you give a child tools they will naturally want to use them. We need to stress the FACT of pregnancy and its link to sex(it does not happen without it) .We need to stop teaching our children that sex is a recreation and teach them it is a creation. If you teach them morality and responsibility more than you teach them how to apply a condom you may see improvement.

Of course no Atheist would allow morality to be taught in public school would they Sean? That could be construed as religious influence. Atheism in its total rejection of religious teachings does indeed damage our society.

Answer 2

nope, that's giving tacit approval to promiscuity. Combine that with an approximate 25-30% failure rate for condoms and it equates to a bad idea. The failure rate is based on preventing pregnancy which out of a 30 day month is possible, depending on the individual, 5-6 days without condoms. STD's are not cyclic, they can be aqquired 30 days a month.
When the schools started to dabble in sex education and parents began abdicating their responsibility is when teenage pregnancies became a problem.

Answer 3

They are having sex anyway so they might as well keep from getting pregnant. And now with all the 12-13 year olds getting knocked up I think middle schools need them too.

They are going to have sex one way or another and hiding in the sand and worrying about messages is why we have girls on TV testing 20 different men for paternity and 14 year old girls asking yahoo if they are bad mommies when their baby cries or if they will get pregnant from hot tubs and toilet seats.

We need more condoms and way more sexual education in this country. Oh and you can teach sex ed and abstinence at the same time for crying out loud. I love how sex ed always becomes "How to whore yourself out 101" to some of you people.

Answer 4

Like in the bathrooms? I think not. Any highschool student can go to their local health department and get condoms for free. When I went there to get some birth control, they practically gave me a grocery bag full of condoms and I had to politely tell them that I really didn't need them, considering my fiance lives 4 thousand miles away, lol. I am for the teaching of safe sex in schools rather than just abstinance. But really, I think schools should teach kids, "Don't have sex until you feel you're ready, and when that time has come, please use protection for the sake of yourself and others."

Answer 5

it really is a really debatable subject for both factors of the spectrum. this will be seen as an ethical subject or a wellbeing one besides. on the pro area, adolescents are maximum likely to have sex one way or yet another. Having condoms obtainable in faculties ought to theoretically sluggish youngster pregnancys and prevent STDs spreading to adolescents. on the different area, human beings say that giving adolescents condoms is encouraging underage sex. Condoms are already obtainable at virtually any save in the course of the country and if the student needs them then they could get them on there own time. in my opinion, i imagine condoms ought to no longer be obtainable at faculties by using my own own morals. wish i ought to help!!

Answer 6

OMG - I will answer this with "South Park".

I swear, my Public School "Sex" Ed was just like "South Park", show: "Proper Condom Use" <5.7>
where they were teaching 4th graders (which is two years earlier education that I had) hit the stuff they taught and how they taught it. OMG - too freaking true. Ms. Chocksndick and Mr. Macky virgins and scaring the living daylights out of Winny & Kyle ... condoms on banana's, and the horrible "Pregnacy is a disease" video's.
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Sharon: Stanley, what the hell are you doing!?
Stan: I'm beating off the dog. Red rocket, red rocket! [everyone is shocked]
Sharon: STANLEY YOU GO TO YOUR ROOM RIGHT NOW!
Stan: My room? Why?
Sharon: GO, Stanley! [chuckles nervously] He gets very good grades.
[later, in Stan's room]
Sharon: Stanley, do you know why you're being grounded for ten months?
Stan: No.
Randy: Beating off the dog is not appropriate when we have company. [Sharon looks at him] Uh, I mean ever. Beating off the dog is not appropriate ever.

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Miss Choksondik: You think that sex is about fun and games and love? Wrong! Sex is about disease.


Mr. Garrison: Now class who can tell me what a condom is? Yes, Jenny?
Jenny: It flies around and it's endangered.
Mr. Garrison: That's a condor, Jenny. Condor.

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Miss Choksondik: Are you wearing a condom?
Mr. Mackey: Uh, no.
Miss Choksondik: Oh, well. **** it.

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Mr. Mackey: Eric, what the hell are you doing?
Cartman: I'm puttin' on a new condom. I filled the other one up.
Mr. Mackey: Why are you wearing a condom
Cartman: So I don't get AIDS.
Mr. Mackey: Eric, you can't get AIDS from just sitting around. You have to get it from sex.

Answer 7

The problem is that by not making them available it help to allow the increased incidents of teen pregnancy and the spread of various sexually transmitted diseases (HIV, syphilus, Herpes, etc.)We are never going to prevent teens from having sex, the only thing we can do is to make it possible for them to do it responsibly, avoiding pregnancy and disease. We don't have to apporve of them having sex, but is HIV or pregnancy a risk anyone wants to take simply to avoid the appearance of approval? Somehow, I doubt it. We can eitehr make them available in schools, or we can change the laws to allow them to be sold to persons under 18 (at least in those places where there is such a restriction).

Answer 8

NO.. You are sending have sex and we will provide the condoms. I know I will be bad marked for this. BUT if the parents are involved in the kids then we wouldnt need the schools "educating" our kids or passing out condoms.

Its the parents job to teach there children to WAIT to have sex. I dont see what the hell the problem is where parents cant act like parents and inform there kids.

Answer 9

I am for sexual education in school systems but I feel that a person should, if under 18, discuss birth control and the obtainment of such with their parents or guardian.

Answer 10

No, we shouldn't give it to them. By doing that then we are saying it's ok to have sex as long as you use protection. Parents need to step up and talk more to their children about sex. It's not the school's responsibility to do this. Also, condoms are not 100% effective. I say it's so wrong to do this.