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Condoms for free at 22 city schools
The district is installing dispensers over winter break at high schools with the highest rates of STDs.
Coming over the holiday break to about a third of Philadelphia high schools: clear plastic dispensers chock-full of free condoms.
The dispensers will be placed in the 22 high schools whose students had the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and condoms will be available to any student – so long as their parents did not sign a form opting them out of the program.
It’s a pilot designed to address “an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease in adolescents in Philadelphia,” said Donald F. Schwarz, the deputy mayor for health and opportunity. Since April 2011, the city has given away about four million condoms, and now, STD rates are falling.
But, Schwarz pointed out, 25 percent of new HIV infections in Philadelphia are teens, and that’s a major worry.
Some city high schools – the dozen that have “health resource centers” – already dispense free condoms. And the Health Department also provides them at city high schools when they go in to test teens for STDs, as they do every year voluntarily with a parent’s consent.
The pilot is the next logical step, Schwarz said.
“I support the policy strongly,” said Mayor Nutter. “This is a serious public health matter.”
TN Tuxedo
December 24th, 2012
[Snicker!] Mayor Nutter…!
grayscape
December 24th, 2012
STD’s will skyrocket because teens will take this as a green light to have more sex. Progs will never get it.
grayjohn
December 24th, 2012
How sophisticated. May the STD’s all strike the faculty and the administration.
KF
December 24th, 2012
@grayscape yep, it’s a tacit endorsement of teen sex. However it is now, and I imagine it’s pretty bad considering the STDs, it’s going to turn into a complete bang-o-rama. Even higher STDs, more teen pregnancies and abortions, but they were doin’ it fer the chirren!! Good intentions are all that matter to these dopes. Hey, Stalin just wanted to help the poor after all.
Stranded in Sonoma
December 24th, 2012
Condoms are only about 98% successful in stopping STDs. However, they are over 99% successful in stopping pregnancies. So why are we told that condoms should be used to stop the spread of STDs, but it’s necessary to kill innocent, unborn, defenseless babies instead of stopping the pregnancies with condoms?
I know, we’re talking about libtards. Math class is tough!
With dispensers in place around the school, how would the parents know? And whats to stop one student from giving his to another student?
Yeah, I know…Math class is tough!
And, the dispenser looks like home plate! There’s a safe at home joke in there somewhere, but I can’t find it.
Bad Brad
December 24th, 2012
What, one size fits all? I think naught. It’;s probably for the protection of the teachers.
Bad Brad
December 24th, 2012
NOT
1950's
December 24th, 2012
This reminds me of when I was in school in the 1950′s.
Back then the dispenser was made of wood.
How do they keep the kids from taken these and selling them.
100% profit.
Edith McCrotch
December 24th, 2012
yeah… this’ll work (snark)
Unneutral
December 24th, 2012
Why not have a list of who is easy and who is not?
Mr.Gates
December 24th, 2012
They won’t use them anyway.
aleon
December 24th, 2012
@Stranded in Sonoma:”And whats to stop one student from giving his to another student?”
That seems to be the question.
Houston
December 24th, 2012
@aleon
Students giving it to each other is the original problem.
OK, sorry. I know I’m perpetually five years old.
All kidding aside, I don’t know if this will help or not. If the kids aren’t resourceful enough to get them now, I doubt if they will care enough to use them. Condoms are 98% effective when used, abstinence is 100% effective.
Follow the old Saturday Night Live slogan, “Sex can wait, MASTURBATE!”
Maudie N Mandeville
December 25th, 2012
Blacks=uncontrollable.
Bad Brad
December 25th, 2012
I thought the SNL slogan was My Junk In A Box,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg
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Mary Jane Anklestraps
December 25th, 2012
And yet Tylenol and students’ medications have to be kept with the school nurse and not the student.
Brilliant.
hi_desertgirl
December 25th, 2012
How much you want to bet the rate of STDs doesn’t go down, but the rate of condoms taken and used for purposes other than sex goes through the ceiling?
Joe
December 25th, 2012
That display is probably where the 10 Commandments used to be. See what you get, progtards, when you take the Lord out of the schools? You get kids acting like animals.
Twinkie
December 25th, 2012
I’d comment; but this defies commentary.
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Bob M.
December 25th, 2012
Armed guards are BAD… condoms are GOOD…
All is WELL in Libtardia this Christmas!
Kensington Kenny
December 25th, 2012
Helps prevent the spread of teacher’s aids…
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