taken from another news group i have not been in for months.
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Condoms, Secrecy For Provincetown Pupils
The Boston Globe
By Jack Nicas
Globe Correspondent June 24, 2010
Students in Provincetown - from elementary school to high school - will
be
able to get free condoms at school under a recently approved policy that
takes effect this fall. The rule also requires school officials to keep
student requests secret, and ignore parents' objections.
"The intent is to protect kids,'' said School Superintendent Beth Singer,
who wrote the policy that the Cape Cod town's School Committee
unanimously
passed two weeks ago. "We know that sexual experimentation is not limited
to
an age, so how does one put an age on it?''
"It's about availability,'' said committee chairman Peter Grosso. "We're
not
handing 'em out like M&M's.''
The policy, which requires school nurses to supply condoms to any student
who asks, drew criticism yesterday from some parents, a family-advocacy
group, and even the town manager, who expressed alarm that children would
be
able to acquire condoms beginning next school year.
Read the rest at:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/24/condom
s_secrecy_for_provincetown_pupils/
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