MA makes condoms available in High School.

[DC Al Fine]

Well my kid wouldn't be in public school to begin with so its a moot point.

[DC Al Fine]

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.

Condoms take up none of my income. But mentioning my non-existant sex life does not discredit my arguments.

I honestly didn't mean to imply that. The whole point I was trying to get to was that condoms might take up more of x person's discretionary income, and that's why I was arguing that they should be free of charge. My apologies.

Looking at Walgreen's website, you can get rubbers for under $0.50 per bang. It's incredibly cheap, so why on earth should the state provide it? Do you also want the state to provide cigarettes for post-coitus smoking?

[DC Al Fine]

Well my kid wouldn't be in public school to begin with so its a moot point.

The kid is lucky to have a parent who can summarily right off the majority of schools in another country of 300+ million people without even checking them out.

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.

Who said anything about bible thumping?

The level of discipline in the public schools is excessively lax at best. Hell, I went to a rich, white school for part of HS in a program for smart kids and it was still pretty loose compared to the private schools. It's going to be either home schooling & secular private school for my kids.

[DC Al Fine]

Well my kid wouldn't be in public school to begin with so its a moot point.

The kid is lucky to have a parent who can summarily write off the majority of schools in another country of 300+ million people without even checking them out.

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.

Who said anything about bible thumping?

The level of discipline in the public schools is excessively lax at best. Hell, I went to a rich, white school for part of HS in a program for smart kids and it was still pretty loose compared to the private schools. It's going to be either home schooling & secular private school for my kids.

So you've evaluated every high school in the United States?

Your kid when he's 18 isn't going to be able to handle walking down the halls of a public high school in an affluent suburb?  What's he going to do in three months when you drive him 800 miles away and dump him off at college?

You're setting an incredibly unrealistic standard that factors into no parent's schooling decision. Read my original post. I said I'm not sending my hypothetical kids to public school. I don't need to evaluate the schools of suburban Boston or rural Texas to decide where to send my hypothetical kids to school in Halifax, NS, Canada.

Where on earth do you get this idea that my kid will go to private school because he "won't be able to handle" a public high school? The quality of education is better in the private schools, and I'll have the means to pay for it. You might as well talk about how I'm not able to "handle" McDonalds because I want to buy a steak.