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Condoms for free at 22 city schools

lpast

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It just isnt fair I tell ya...we had to pay a quarter in some sleezy bathroom for our condoms when I was a teen and for a quarter I could go to the movies on saturday.

Coming over the holiday break to about a third of Philadelphia high schools: clear plastic dispensers chock-full of free condoms.


The dispensers will be placed in the 22 high schools whose students had the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and condoms will be available to any student - so long as their parents did not sign a form opting them out of the program.



Condoms for free at 22 city schools
 
Wonder how many of them will be used for their intended purpose as opposed to being used for pranks......
 
I guess they are cheaper than abortions.
 
So title one schools provide free breakfast, free lunch, and now free condoms. Can't have those little buggers getting the clap at school now can we? I wonder if they teach proper use and disposal?

Just preparing users for a life time of welfare it seems. No reason to be self-sufficient or responsible when a school or government takes over that role for free.

My how extracurricular activities have changed? Remember when school was all about learning?
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1061282766 said:
So title one schools provide free breakfast, free lunch, and now free condoms. Can't have those little buggers getting the clap at school now can we? I wonder if they teach proper use and disposal?

Just preparing users for a life time of welfare it seems. No reason to be self-sufficient or responsible when a school or government takes over that role for free.

My how extracurricular activities have changed? Remember when school was all about learning?
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I am conflicted about this one, but I totally 150% support the free breakfast/lunch programs. I have read articles that some school systems actually have weekend meal packs they give to some students just so they have something to eat over the weekend. I have heard so many stories of kids not being able to afford lunch that it sickens me.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1061282766 said:
Just preparing users for a life time of welfare it seems.
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Seems to me that distributing free condoms helps prevent the recipients from receiving a lifetime of welfare.
 
"The dispensers will be placed in the 22 high schools whose students had the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases............."

What a bunch of worthless losers.
 
lpast said:
Condoms for free at 22 city schools
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But the kids will use them to have sex!!!! We cannot allow them to safely explore their natural impulses. They should fumble in ignorance and hobble themselves with parasites and diseases; its what Jesus would have wanted for them.


Μολὼν λαβέ;1061282766 said:
So title one schools provide free breakfast, free lunch, and now free condoms. Can't have those little buggers getting the clap at school now can we? I wonder if they teach proper use and disposal?

Just preparing users for a life time of welfare it seems. No reason to be self-sufficient or responsible when a school or government takes over that role for free.

My how extracurricular activities have changed? Remember when school was all about learning?
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This does nothing but create entitled, dependent mooches that think the government's should act to prevent outbreaks of disease and give the citizenry opportunities to act responsibly. The government has no place spending pennies to prevent societal problems that cost dollars to treat; that's the role of private charity and unregulated capitalism.



Ray410 said:
What a bunch of worthless losers.
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Yeah, only a bunch of losers would be having lots of sex like that. If only they could all be as cool as us non-sex having people, right Ray?
 
ChunkySalsa said:
Yeah, only a bunch of losers would be having lots of sex like that. If only they could all be as cool as us non-sex having people, right Ray?
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The ironic thing is.. the areas with the highest usage of online porn are conservative areas, the areas with the highest per capita teen pregnancy are red states... so maybe free condoms should be given out there....
 
ChunkySalsa said:
But the kids will use them to have sex!!!! We cannot allow them to safely explore their natural impulses. They should fumble in ignorance and hobble themselves with parasites and diseases; its what Jesus would have wanted for them.

This does nothing but create entitled, dependent mooches that think the government's should act to prevent outbreaks of disease and give the citizenry opportunities to act responsibly. The government has no place spending pennies to prevent societal problems that cost dollars to treat; that's the role of private charity and unregulated capitalism.

Yeah, only a bunch of losers would be having lots of sex like that. If only they could all be as cool as us non-sex having people, right Ray?
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Love the subtle yet obvious sarcasm in this post. Not often I see sarcasm this well done. Well Done and right on the money!
 
lpast said:
It just isnt fair I tell ya...we had to pay a quarter in some sleezy bathroom for our condoms when I was a teen and for a quarter I could go to the movies on saturday.

Coming over the holiday break to about a third of Philadelphia high schools: clear plastic dispensers chock-full of free condoms.


The dispensers will be placed in the 22 high schools whose students had the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and condoms will be available to any student - so long as their parents did not sign a form opting them out of the program.



Condoms for free at 22 city schools
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Is the assumption here that they will use the condoms?

I doubt it. If it helps great, but I just don't believe it.
 
PeteEU said:
The ironic thing is.. the areas with the highest usage of online porn are conservative areas, the areas with the highest per capita teen pregnancy are red states... so maybe free condoms should be given out there....
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When did Sub-Saharan Africa become a conservative area and how did they get so many people online?
 
I'd rather see the kids using condoms and being responsible than passing around diseases and/or becoming pregnant, having an unwanted child or an abortion.
 
Viktyr Gehrig said:
Seems to me that distributing free condoms helps prevent the recipients from receiving a lifetime of welfare.
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I shouldn't have to "help" anyone from their own stupid decisions. All you're doing is babying them when they need to learn how to wipe their own ***. In fact, it's the poor who say they can't afford condoms that need to learn the value of responsibility the most. If these students are in areas with many diseases and/or pregnancies being common and they haven't learned abstinence then that's their problem.
 
lpast said:
It just isnt fair I tell ya...we had to pay a quarter in some sleezy bathroom for our condoms when I was a teen and for a quarter I could go to the movies on saturday.

Coming over the holiday break to about a third of Philadelphia high schools: clear plastic dispensers chock-full of free condoms.


The dispensers will be placed in the 22 high schools whose students had the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and condoms will be available to any student - so long as their parents did not sign a form opting them out of the program.



Condoms for free at 22 city schools
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I've always maintained that I'd much rather pay for other people's condoms than their welfare, or medical expenses.

As a libertarian leaning individual, I'd rather not pay for either, but if I have to, I'd rather pay for the condoms.
 
Mathematician said:
I shouldn't have to "help" anyone from their own stupid decisions. All you're doing is babying them when they need to learn how to wipe their own ***. In fact, it's the poor who say they can't afford condoms that need to learn the value of responsibility the most. If these students are in areas with many diseases and/or pregnancies being common and they haven't learned abstinence then that's their problem.
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You still have to pay for their stupid decisions either way. Even without counting the enormous expenditures in welfare, if they have kids, or contract an STD, that's going to drive up medical consumption. Increase in demand=increase in price.
 
ReformCollege said:
As a libertarian leaning individual, I'd rather not pay for either, but if I have to, I'd rather pay for the condoms.
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I don't wanna pay for them and I don't think you should have to. Now, reality: a woman's control of her reproductive life is a human right and poor women must have access.
 
I would rather that kids understood what unprotected sex can cause, and provide the means to prevent it, than paying welfare, abortions and a life of treatments for an STD. Abstinence is a good start, but the decision is theirs.

This not a right or a left thing, most kids don't think about it much. They DO think about sex alot, and ignoring it won't make it go away.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1061282766 said:
Remember when school was all about learning?
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If parents in these areas took a more active role in raising their children they would have better examples to follow and would be less likely engage in such risky behavior.

The proof of the truth of my statement is that the kids have to have signed notes to opt out of the program...not opt in.
 
Ray410 said:
"The dispensers will be placed in the 22 high schools whose students had the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases............."

What a bunch of worthless losers.
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From my perspective, worthless losers are grown people who's hearts are so cold and hard that they would look at children and call them worthless losers.
 
Does anyone seriously think that just providing condoms is going to do much, if anything, to solve the problem of teen STD's? If, as another poster alluded, kids are reacting to their impulses, what makes anyone think that, in an impulsive moment, any kid is going to stop and find and use a condom? That requires planning and consideration of future consequences, which is the polar opposite of acting on impulses. And what boy is going to voluntarily strap a numbing device on his penis anyway?

Education about consequences of sex and parent involvement in helping shepherd kids through their impulsive years is what is needed here. Condoms should be the LAST item considered in a long line of STD and pregnancy prevention steps.
 
ChuckBerry said:
And what boy is going to voluntarily strap a numbing device on his penis anyway?
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That's out of touch. 'Abstinence only' failed. Teenagers use condoms today, old timer.
 
Hand out something to encourage an activity that we don't suggest you do. Hmmmm that makes sense.
 
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