Woo hoo! Free stuff!!!
The Milwaukee School Board voted last night to give away condoms in Milwaukee public high schools.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Without discussion, the Milwaukee School Board voted 7-0 Thursday night to make condoms available at many of the city's high schools, paving the way to make Milwaukee Public Schools one of the relatively few districts in the nation to provide contraception to students.
The communicable disease prevention program, as the district calls it, could be in place as soon as the 2010-'11 school year.
The proposal sparked some opposition after being made public Dec. 2, but the board approved the condom distribution without much dissent. Comments from the public are not allowed at board meetings and a board committee had voted 5-0 on Dec. 9 to recommend adopting the program.
The condoms will be available free of charge, but only to students in high schools that have school nurses and only after students request them at the nurse's office, according to a fact sheet circulated by the school district. Up to two condoms will be distributed at a time.
Thursday's vote does not authorize funding for the program, but the district has said it will not use taxpayer money to buy condoms and instead will seek other sources of funding.
What other sources of funding?
A bake sale? Cookies for condoms?
Here's a novel idea: MPS should be in the business of giving students a quality education, not condoms.
1 comment:
You are correct, and lets take a look at those books that are working there way into the school system while we are at it.
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