Provincetown and kiddy condoms
I’ll be talking about this story on my Issues Etc interview in a few minutes. Free condoms to children of all ages? Don’t tell the parents? School population declining? could there be a connection?
Singer said she wanted the policy to apply to the Veterans Memorial Elementary School so that fifth- and sixth-graders could get condoms. There were 17 students in those grades this year, according to state data; there were 69 students in preschool through fourth grade at Veterans.
The policy was approved as the school system contends with a dramatic drop in enrollment — down from 500 students in 1980 to 152 this year. The School Committee recently announced that the high school will close in 2013. The school had 66 students this year; 36 are enrolled for this fall.
According to sources in MA, Provincetown has become such a gay mecca, that straight tourists don’t feel welcome there, with their kids. Parents are referred to as “breeders.” Could that attitude have something to do with the decline in the school-aged population?
Just a thought.
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This whole story is nauseating. Who in their right mind would believe that children of grade-school age have any business having sexual intercourse in the first place! (At least in our modern society, ancient societies, where the average lifespan was 40, may have had different imperatives – but even they made clear distinctions between children and adults).
Perhaps the distinction is too much of a pain for the adults to uphold anymore–it’s easier to pretend that kids will be happy under any circumstances in which we place them.