Do You Think High School Health Should Give Out Condoms?

Asking Senior opinions. Anyone is more than welcome to answer.


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25 Responses to “Do You Think High School Health Should Give Out Condoms?”

  1. This is a very touchy question. I would like to say “Yes” but, the parents would probably want to strangle me, then on the other hand, when their kids get into “trouble” they want “someone” to do something about it.
    So, it’s a problem on both hands.

  2. Definitely! It would certainly be an effort to stop teen pregnancies, and it would probably work in most cases. I also think that kids would take the health class more seriously (if they were handed out that way). In one year, 6 girls were pregnant in my small school, and from what I heard through the grapevine, most of them did not use any form of protection. Unfortunately, some teens can’t afford to buy a method of birth control, which leads to some of the teen pregnancies. Money should not be the reason why a couple can not use protection – only the lack of willingness. By handing out condoms in high schools, those who can not afford a method of birth control would have the opportunity to have access protections at no cost. Teens can also be “embarrassed” to go and buy protection, and this method would eliminate any weird feelings that would come with buying rubbers at the store. Some female teenagers that I went to school with, who were sexually active, tried to get their parents to put them on “the pill”, but they refused to do so. With this method, those girls could get another form of birth control without their parents consent. I’m sure the parents would prefer their daughter to have condoms in her purse than a positive pregnancy test! Handing out condoms in high schools would not promote sexual activies – pornography does. I believe that as long as the nurse/health teacher promotes SAFE sex in the school environment, it would stop teen pregnancies.

  3. In the UK condoms are free on the NHS, all you have to do is go down to your local clinic and ask for some. Because this is the case it doesn’t seem necessary to offer them in schools as well. It would cost too much money to supply the schools and the people who are genuinely concerned about their health and lives are going to the clinics anyway.

  4. I don’t think that they should pass them out freely. I think what they should do is have a sex education class set up where they show films of what sex is really all about. I mean even right down to the birth of a baby. Then the students should have to carry the model of the baby around for a week or so. Have them to live the life of a mom with a baby and also the dad with a baby. Make them understand that when they have a baby they can’t go out and do the things that they did prior to having the baby.
    Should any of those students start laughing or snickering, put them at the front of the class and give them more work to do, like having a “day care” for those that need a good place to leave their child while in school.
    I think they should learn that they need to learn to be a responsable adult if they are going to try to act like adults. I am not really for passing out birth control at all, to me that is more or less just giving permission to have sex when they really don’t know what the consequences are should they became unwanted parents.

  5. To me, it’s like . . . . you can’t get there from here.
    John Q Public, thought censorship was overstepping the bounds of American Freedom. Well . . . . now censorship is lax and excessively lenient. Whatever happened to being discrete?
    Anything goes and it’s acceptable but kid’s can’t be kid’s anymore and play tag, dodge ball etc. etc.. They just stand around looking pretty and cool during recess in grade school. Teachers can’t discipline. Kid’s have little or no respect for each other, parents or authority.
    In the Jr. High and High Schools, some teachers can’t keep their hands off the students.
    Movies, music, television and computers, no matter where you look it’s all about sensual entertainment and also advertisement, all for the sake of the all mighty dollar.
    What is next? Poor kid’s. What a mess we have created. It’s like a maize with no exit.
    DeeJay.

  6. Health clinics, like school clinics, would be fine if there is a trained person available to answer questions. If you are referring to school health classes, then I’m not fond of that idea. Mainly because I don’t feel confident that the students would ask questions in front of a group of their peers.

  7. By cracky, no. Giving out condoms is giving permission to the young ones. What I don’t understand why there is not more people or groups who advocate abstinace. Oh, I forgot this is a “me” and “do as you please’ society. In some ways I think we seniors also has taken part in our culture today. We were born when the war was over and the economy was good. Parent bought almost anything they wanted and cars were bought for us. We really never suffered for not. Some of us with an insatiable desire for materialism, and it appears we have passed it on.

  8. I think they should be available for free for students to take if they need them. You could put them in both the boys and girls restrooms and keep some in the health room too. I’m not for premarital sex but lets face it these youngsters arent waiting no matter how much we would like them to. I’d rather have them safe from STD’s, HIV and unwanted pregnancies. These things are reality no matter what my moral values are.

  9. Along with the full facts of what happens when you just leave them in your jeans pocket and don’t fit them when you should.
    EVERY young person should be made to spend three night on the trot find out about the joys of having a new baby … sleep deprivation, painful breasts, constipation, painful sex, disinterested partners, looking like a wreck, no money,continuous crying of a newborn (which is all that they would need to apply to any terrorist to get information out of them!), constant crying of a new mum,the smell of vomit and poo invading every room of the house that now looks like a pigsty ………..yep – three days and nights, thats all you would need to see the figures fall!

  10. NO—- i believe we should teach our children to wait. kids are not emotionally ready for sex and all that comes with it. kids should be worried about their job which is school. i always told my daughter when she was in high school that i have a job and i do it well, and that i expect nothing less with her job (school). i talked very openly about sex with her and of why she should wait, then again i also said if she should get pregnant that i would be there to help her. i know what i’m talking about, my mom had me at 15, and it was not easy being raised by a teen. so no is my answer, let kids be kids and do kid things, when one starts having sex it brings lots of other problems…

  11. No. If teenagers think they’re responsible to have sex, then they can go out and buy their own. It’s not the school’s responsibility to make sure young girls don’t get pregnant. They are there to educate, not encourage sex. Plus, most of the people will just blow them up, giggle about it, and then throw them out. It would be a waste of time and money for the school.

  12. Good grief, yes. Unprotected sex is inviting STD’s, especially Hep C and HIV…I, for one, would not want my child condemned because of silly beliefs that kids will “just say no.” (It ain’t gonna happen.) As far as “condoning premarital sex,” kids do not need permission to play, nor do they ask for it. Let’s get real here. All our children need to be protected from STD’s and unwanted pregnancies. Goldwing

  13. You will never stop kids experimenting with sex, so if it saves
    just one unwanted baby I am all for it.
    Education, education, education is what is needed.

  14. Yes, they should give out condoms. I think they should also give out “the pill” as well as RU486 (the morning after pill) like they do in France.

  15. Only if they also make sure every student has someone to do it with. Those without partners can be randomly assigned to each other so that no condom is wasted.

  16. Give them OUT… NO… unless they give out “the pill” too.
    It’s enough they give such “explicit” instructions!!
    Have a “senior” day.

  17. No. The students are too immature and would use the condoms as water balloons all over the school.

  18. Toothbrushes – yes! Condoms – no!!!! Good grief – how much more Govt. do we want in our lives – even our sex lives. NO NO NO.
    CJ

  19. No

  20. In the first instance Yes and after some thought my answer is Yes.

  21. Little miss naughty on December 10th, 2009 at 3:01 am

    Yes I wish they would !

  22. yea i think so. its better to be safe then sorry

  23. hell yeah!

  24. yes and also birth control pills!!!

  25. What’s a condom?

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