What an incredibly complicated and multifaceted issue this schools policy is.

On one hand there's the rights of the parents of these kids, most especially since the kids actions are the responsibility of their parents until they reach the age of adulthood and the parents rights are basically being subjugated by the schools policies in allowing them to seek free methods of birth control. This in essence violates the parents rights to choose what their kids will have made available to them and in doing so also would seem to put responsibility for what ocurrs from the school systems actions on the school system itself, relieving the parents of all responsibility henceforth in the matter.

Then there's the statistical evidence that shows kids are reverting to a pattern from previous centuries history and are having sex at a younger and younger age than in the more recent past. With that in mind, it would seem reasonable to provide them with the best information possible about sexual physiology, pregnancy, sexual diseases and prevention of pregnancy and transmission of diseases by all the methods available to our modern society.

Then of course you have the "Abstinance, abstinance, abstinance!" crowd of fundamentalists with their heads buried firmly in the sand as they claim the real solution to this issue is just to tell the kids NOT to have sex and that this in itself should be sufficient at addressing the issue. By all accounts this group is the ones with the least amount of reality in their position from my viewpoint since everyone with a brain KNOWS preaching abstinance to hormonally riddled teens is about like trying to convince the human race that breathing oxygen is bad for them !

The common cry that seems to go out about teens being given some inherent "right" to have sex by allowing them access to education and birth control protection methods seems at best totally ludicrous and a seriously flawed logic in the grand scheme of things.

Human nature being what it is, teens would seemingly be more prone TO have sex (and more instances of unprotected sex as well) if the ideologies of human sexuality are left in the shadows and not trotted out into the light of day by teaching them about sex. So long as teen sex is considered a taboo subject there is an inherent draw for them to have sex than if all the cards are placed upon the table and they are allowed to make their own choices about it all from a more educated position.

With all the above having been said, my position is that each parent should be in control of how their children are raised, even when that option leaves many kids at the mercy of parents and their own concepts of morality, religon, etc. that I typically stand in direct opposition to since my own thoughts are that most parents either are totally unsuited to be able to teach their kids about their sexuality and inherent choices relevant to the subject or are uncomfortable in providing their kids with anything like realistic sex education to enable them to make more informed choices or, so they just avoid the subject completely ..... and that many, many of these parents concepts of reality regarding human sexuality are so flawed and filled with totally draconian and archaic concepts based on religon and other such BS as to make them totally unrealistic in todays society!

Having 2 daughters myself I took them both aside at about 12 or 13 and had a frank and honest discussion about human sexuality, disease prevention and birth control with my own focus being to arm them with the best information available and insure the ramifications of their choices after such a discussion would be made from a position of knowledge, not shadowy concepts bandied about by their peers.

I told them both that although I felt their virginity was a treasure they only posessed until they made the choice to have sex, and that I hoped they would cherish it as such and abstain from having sex until were involved with a partner they intended to share their lives with I understood completely the part raging hormones played and that their curiosity about sex would also be piqued and might tempt them to experience it with someone before such a point was reached in their lives, and that I made no moral judgement about them making such a choice to have sex, nor would I think any less of them if they were to make such a choice.

I also told them that if they were to reach a point in their lives where they intended to have sex that they do so wisely and use proper protection against both disease and pregnancy and that I would be willing to provide them with methods to do so, in regard to condoms and taking them to a doctor to get them on proper birth control.

To date, neither my 26yr old nor my 18yr old have had any sexual diseases nor unwanted pregnancies, so maybe this approach worked as I had intended it to