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The Gervais district school board has decided sixth graders need access to condoms.
School district votes to provide condoms to sixth-grade students | www.ajc.com
We've decided we're done fighting for the innocence of children.
Our attitude can be described with this.
With a collective sense of defeat, "the village" has decided we're given a set of no-win options.
The best no-win option is to give sixth graders condoms.
We've resigned ourselves to this supposed "reality".
We say, "Kids will have sex. All we can do is make the best of a bad situation. We'll give them condoms."
We think this is the way it has to be.
But does it have to be this way?
They say that abstinence doesn't work, as they point to statistics.
They say,"Do you want teen pregnancy and STDs? If not, then give the children condoms."
It may take a generation to fix what it took a generation to break.
STDs, and teen pregnancies are proof we need abstinence education.
Change won't be immediate. There will still be some teen STDs and pregnancies.
Let's push for a higher standard, instead of resigning ourselves to "the fact" it has to be this way.
Failure to have an immediate decline in teen pregnancy and STDs should not prevent us from aiming for a long term goal.
It doesn't have to be this way.
School district votes to provide condoms to sixth-grade students | www.ajc.com
We've decided we're done fighting for the innocence of children.
Our attitude can be described with this.
Debbie Roberts told the station she had a different view. "I think it’s better to be protected than get pregnant, so I think it’s a really good thing,” she said.
The best no-win option is to give sixth graders condoms.
We've resigned ourselves to this supposed "reality".
We say, "Kids will have sex. All we can do is make the best of a bad situation. We'll give them condoms."
We think this is the way it has to be.
But does it have to be this way?
They say that abstinence doesn't work, as they point to statistics.
They say,"Do you want teen pregnancy and STDs? If not, then give the children condoms."
It may take a generation to fix what it took a generation to break.
STDs, and teen pregnancies are proof we need abstinence education.
Change won't be immediate. There will still be some teen STDs and pregnancies.
Let's push for a higher standard, instead of resigning ourselves to "the fact" it has to be this way.
Failure to have an immediate decline in teen pregnancy and STDs should not prevent us from aiming for a long term goal.
It doesn't have to be this way.