Condoms In School??

some parents want to be the ones to teach their kids about sex so i think a letter should be sent out to parents just to inform them whats going to be taught and that condoms maybe be available to students and if they wish for their kids to not be in they need to inform that teacher/school

kinda like the dental checks at school?..
well at my school anyways
there were letters sent to each parent saying whether they wanted
the dentist to check our teeth or not
and it was up to the parent...

that's a good idea chase..
have them be available...
but make it optional (by the parent not the student)

even if the parents say no we all know there are ways the kids will get them anyways.

well, like you said maybe the parents want to teach their kids themselves..
that's the only reason i would see it necessary to say no..
unless the parents just want their teens to reproduce at young ages?...

yeah we had sex ed in our school
and they started teaching it in 5th grade..
we never got the whole condom/birth control speech tho.
just what the reproductive organs look like and what they do..


but i think its a good thing b/c a lot of girls had no idea what a period was
and luckily the school taught them b/c they wouldn't have known what to
do when they started...

here i go again with my "when i was that age speech". when i was in high school i lost my virginity and my boyfriend was smart enough to use condoms. but once that first box of condoms ran out all of a sudden he didn't want to get caught buying them and he was embarrassed to be seen buying them and he didn't have the money to buy them and every other excuse under the sun. of course, me being a 16 year old girl, i wasn't smart enough at that time in my life to either insist on it or do it myself. so i just let him do it his way (the pull out/non-method). luckily this didn't go on long enough for me to get pregnant but i guess i would have been a lot safer if i had had access to condoms through school. as it was, there was no information for me and i couldn't go to my mom (she would have killed me first and talked later). so i think it's an okay idea for kids to have access to information and condoms in school.

We had thorough, indepth sex/health education (age appropriate) starting in grade 6. No permission slips from parents and definitely NOT abstinence only education.

It's in the Ontario public school curriculum (which is available for viewing online).

Grade 6 (co-ed) - puberty/how your body is changing
Grade 7 (co-ed) - Alcohol and drug abuse
Grade 8 (co-ed) - STDs (seemed mostly like scare tactics to me)
Grade 9 (co-ed) - Condoms, birth control, iuds, common misconceptions, oral sex, anal sex, lesbian, gay and trans-gendered people. It was of course stressed that abstinence is the ONLY birth control method that is 100%.

In highschool (grade 9+) condoms were always available for free from the nurse or health/gym teachers.

When I was in university I worked at a club/banquet hall where some local highschools held their prom. A giant, salad-bowl of free condoms was placed at the exit door of nearly every highschool prom I worked.

I have absolutely no doubt that condoms should be available at public highschools.

Anyone who has thoroughly browsed this forum can see that sex education is severely lacking (more so in some areas) - and teens are the ones who suffer the consequences of their own ignorance. Education doesn't make people more likely to have sex - but ineducation makes sex far more risky.

Kids should be educated about sex, pregnancy, birth control and stds by the time they're in highschool. If parents don't want their child to receive such education they can homeschool or place their kids in a private or religious highschool (catholic school is free here too).

Well if they can get them free at school atleast they have a better chance of having safe sex. I would much rather see those that decide to have sex when they are like 14 using condoms, even if they get them at school, then just doing it, then getting an abortion when they end up pregnant.

i dunno, i just think its too young personally..but..I do support the whole safe sex thing...its a toss up for me..while I agree that safe sex should be performed I also think that its just too young to be handing out condoms, its like they're promoting sex...so, I think the information should be sent out but...I'm gonna have to say that just giving them out, no..if you're old enough to have sex, you should be RESPONSIBLE enough to know the consequences and how to prevent themby birth controls...if you dont care..then obviously you aren't mature enough

Condoms were available from my school if you went to your student suppost assistant then they would give them to you. I understand why parents would be angry about it but i think they'd be even more angry if their daughter came home pregnant

they weren't available at my school because it was a catholic school, i wish they were and for my siblings and son i hope they have easy access

I think they should absolutely be available to students. And I think sex ed should be a lot better (at least where I am). I think having a permission slip sent home completely defeats the puropse of having condoms at school. If kids had their parent;s permission to do it, they wouod be supplying their kids with condoms. I woud much much rather my kid had condoms without my knowledge than had contracted and STD.

I dont think the answer to problem of underage sex and teen pregnancy lies in current sex education programmes or in the distribution of Condoms. To be fair the distribution of condoms sends out a message of consent from the school, from parents and from society. Therein lies the root of the problem and the answer to the problem. Society seems to be hell bent on the promotion of sexual promiscuity at an early age.

Everything from magazines, advertisments and music video's to the distribution of free condoms to underage children at school. If we want to curb the sexplosion of underage sex and teen pregnancy we need to re-evaluate how our society approaches sex, sex education should be based on biological facts not on "how to" Oral, lesbian, Gay. Sex education should be based on the biological facts of reproduction and not about the karma sutra!

I am not a one for "banning" but for liberating, Regards to the media, I would open the media up allowing for alternitive music videos, magazines and advertisment agencies... our whole culture is tits up and we have no alternitive to either totally abstain from the media (as I do) or be force fed this depravity. Often our work commitments forces us to scarafice our children to this so called "entertainment" which then they become "sexualised" at an early age, contributing to promiscuity, sexpermientation, teen pregnancy and of course abortion, alcohol and drug abuse, depresion and suicide.