We Do We Hand Out Birth Control Pills to Middle Schoolers?

Teachers argue that they don't want to be critisized for overstepping the parents' territory, so they don't make moral judgments in the classroom. They apparantly don't want to play the parent role.





Then why are they handing out birth control pills in schools? Why don't they just leave it up to the parents? When middle school children are handed condoms and BCPs, doesn't that make them think that it is OK to have sex at such a young age? It makes them think that these condoms must be incredibly protective against STDs? Do they realize that condoms only prevent the spread of herpes by 50%? Also, condoms break 8% of the time...We Do We Hand Out Birth Control Pills to Middle Schoolers?
Excuse me? What schools are handing out birth control pills? BCPs are prescription medication, and the school would be opening itself up to a HUGE lawsuit for practicing medicine without a licsence!!!!





And no, condoms don't break 8% of the time, unless the user is using them completely incorrectly.We Do We Hand Out Birth Control Pills to Middle Schoolers?
Oh my goodness where to start. Where are you even getting your facts from??





First off exactly which middle schools are handing out birth control pills? You need a doctors prescription for that. When I was in school we only had a nurse in part time and she couldn't even hand out tylenol.





They idea that access to contraceptive and information makes kids have more sex is ridiculous and has clearly been disproven by the fact that the only outcome of abstinence only education has been a rise in teen pregnancy and stds.





Access to condoms isn't a moral issue, its a health issue.





If you want a role in your kids lives then you do that by being a good parent, teachers can't take that away from you. You stay involved, talk to them, teach them how to think for themselves instead of going along with peer pressure.
Those kids will have sex, whether they're old enough or not.


It's better to teach them to protect themselves.


Last year, at my old school, 22 girls were pregnant, including me, and out of all 22, half of them were in middle school.


Which wouldn't have happened if someone had been straight up with them and actually told them about what can happen when you don't use birth control.


Parents don't always care.


And some parents think, ';Oh, my kids won't have sex until they're married'; and therefore don't teach them to protect themselves.
i have never ever heard of this before. when i was in school (im from texas also) we were only givin an educational class on sex. in 5th grade it was about getting your period and puberty and in 6th and seven grade it was about health in the 9th grade we were required to take a health edu class...which was basically sex ed. they thought us to abstein not to have sex and they DID NOT had out bc or condoms. they tought about stds and absteining.
I agree with you and the parents should make that decision. They should not hand that stuff out. I agree with the sex education class but let the parents be parents. Thats what wrong with a lot of parents they let the school take over there role as a parent. They feel that is less they have do?
I taught 7th grade for 5 years in Texas and I have never heard of that. They had a sex ed discussion in PE at the end of each year, but it was a one time health video. I dont think MS is the place to be giving out samples.
i heard that they were doing that over in school school in Oregon :(
If you just take a look through this section of Yahoo Answers. You will see how many teens are on here wondering if they are pregnant or how to tell their parents that they are pregnant. This would be why schools are now trying to get it okay to prescribe birth control. Not all teens feel comfortable going to their parents asking about sex and or birth control. I am glad that there are other options for those teens. When I was in middle school and high school... they didn't just hand them out to everybody. You had to go to the clinic inside the school and ask for condoms or to see a nurse for a pregnancy test or BCPs. Their thought on this is that if it's there for them than maybe there won't be diseases or have unwanted pregnancies all throughout the school.





Personally I am all for this. I am sure we all remember what it was like to be a teenager with raging hormones. I would like to think that they are also educating these teens on how affective these forms of birth control and protection is if used right.
What school have you heard of that gives out birth control? Birth control can not be given out without a prescription and also requires regular check ups because of the risk it poses to women that is why even at planned parenthood you have to schedule an appt after 3monts of BC for a physical to make sure you are able to continue taking it. I have done some research and was not able to find any schools that do this besides colleges and they also require physicals. If this is true, which I havnt been able to prove that it is and it would be a huge safety issue I think it is wrong. There needs to be more education that just handing out BC. I suffered a stroke that was possibly related to BC, I am allergic to the hormones and would have never known had I not recieved medical attention, they cannot just pass it out like candy.