First it was teaching students about sex instead of leaving it to parents. Then it was teaching them about pregnancy and birth control without permission, then distributing condoms and counseling about abortion to teens. Now it is dispensing pharmaceuticals to 11 year olds without parental permission. Schools want complete control over our children-I don't plan on giving it to them, do you?
Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School's health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.
The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center's practice of providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city's student health centers.
If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Most middle schoolers are ages 11-13.
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Actually the article does say that it will dispense the prescriptions to kids who have parents permission to be treated there.
That aside, however, what parent in their right mind would allow their 11 - 13 year olds to be given hormone treatments???
Meshugenah--as they say in my family. Nuts.
Secondly, is this the proper job of the schools? Do we want our tax money to go for this? By our silence are we not contributing to the delinquency of minor children? What about reckless child endangerment?
In other words, I think this is a crime! I'm with you on this one.
ahhh yes. That's what I opened up my Portland Press Herald to yesterday as the front page news.
The school board meets tonight.
Isn't this just an outrage!?!? You have to sign your life away to give permission to the school to administer a cough drop, but they will freely dispense a substance that has been a proven threat to health of anyone who takes it ~ to say nothing of the *life* it could threaten! Mental note made to add this to my prayers tonight....!
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