"They're going to do it anyway..."

I can’t even come to grips with these two stories to comment on them myself yet. Maybe I’ll be able to later, but for now I just want to get them on the blog for y’all to read.

First in Maine:

Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School's health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.

The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center's practice of providing
condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city's student health centers.

If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Most middle schoolers are ages 11-13.

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Types of prescription birth control available through the health centers include contraceptive pills, patches or injections, as well as the morning-after pill. Diaphragms and IUDs are not usually prescribed, she said. [empahsis mine]

So the idea of condoms were sold to public schools on the premise that kids are going to have sex anyway and we don’t want them to get STDs, so we need them to have access to all the condoms they want; it’s for their safety. So are STDs not that bad after all? (Maybe not since we can vaccinate girls for HPV, which may be mandatory before long.) I’m not following this jump…will they start teaching the kids to use condoms for backup protection now? Or vice versa?

I guess since the schools are already providing birth control and condoms, would it be too much to ask for them to also provide quiet, dimly-lit rooms for students so they don’t have to disrupt class with their sex acts? Well, it may be a better idea than just letting kids run around naked during school.


In a totally unrelated story out of Norway:

…a respected Oslo pre-school teacher, backed by child psychologists, thinks children should be allowed to openly express their own sexuality, not least through sex play and games in the local day care centers…

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Children, she said, should be able "to look at each other and examine each other's bodies. They can play doctor, play mother and father, dance naked and masturbate.” [emphasis mine]

I mean, they’re going to do it anyway, so we might as well get them used to it and not feel ashamed and teach them when and where to do it along with all the other children, right? Because, you know, a few of these poor kids might not have parents doing their job and addressing this issue at home. So it’s important that the daycares and kindergartens do it themselves and expose a lot of other kids to such things unnecessarily to make up for the few not getting the proper upbringing, right? And we'll instruct the teachers on how to deal with this properly in a classroom setting:

"But their sexuality must also be socialized, so they are not, for example, allowed to masturbate while sitting and eating. Nor can they be allowed to pressure other children into doing things they don't want to."

Oh...what a relief. Sorry for all the sarcasm, but this got me in a mood. I gotta stop before I vomit.



Hat tip: Glenn Beck