MA makes condoms available in High School.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

MA allows the parents to opt their kid out of the program so they can't get access to the condoms or counseling.  What would you do if it were your kid in the school?

The article is here

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Of course not. The government should make condoms freely and easily available to anyone who wants them. And parents should not be able to opt their children out of it. If a sixteen year old gets pregnant, it's the state that's going to be paying the costs of that for the next few decades, not the parents.

I agree with all of this except for the "should not be able to opt their children out of it".   They just shouldn't opt them out of it....it's insane to do so.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

You guys do realize, without an opt-out provision, this thing never sees the light of day, right?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This is obviously glorious and I would strongly recommend any teen enroll. 

No need to enroll, Hokey, you're in unless you opt out.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

But I am morally opposed to the fact that the simplest things like condoms are now being handed out for free.

This sounds like a judgment handed down on the assumption that condoms encourage people to have sex, rather than reduce the societal cost of it.

Agreed. I don't know one high schooler that needed encouragement about where he wanted to put Mr. Happy. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

But I am morally opposed to the fact that the simplest things like condoms are now being handed out for free.

This sounds like a judgment handed down on the assumption that condoms encourage people to have sex, rather than reduce the societal cost of it.

No, I have no problems with sex, being a teenaged male of course . My problem is the fact that the condoms are free. I can pay for my own condoms, and so can everyone else.

Condoms take up a smaller part of your discretionary income than they might someone else.

Poor Sanchez:

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I can't speak for Canada but in the United States the public high school is sometimes the best school around for miles and sends more kids to Ivy League universities than all the Bible beating Christian schools combined.

Correct.  We took mine out of a private school into a public one because it was, by far, the best school.