Comments on: Portland Republican Leader: Recall the Adolescent Contraception Committee

By: Michelle Malkin » More sexual politics in public schools

Michelle Malkin » More sexual politics in public schools — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:47:58 +0000

[...] on the weird story of school-provided birth control for eleven-year-old students in Portland, Maine, there are a couple more stories of sexual politics agendas being played out in [...]

By: publiuswarmac9999

publiuswarmac9999 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:33:55 +0000

Most of the time when you have a problem, you confront it, try to understand it, and try to solve it. In the great world of Maine and many of the other secular socialist welfare states, you don’t try to solve it you try to accommodate it. Accommodation is really a liberal pathology – and there is little opportunity to cure a problem when the people who practice accommodation somehow think it makes things better. Frankly, politicians love the pathology of accommodation because they can then ride to victory on the back of a victim of accommodation.

By: jeanie

jeanie — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:24:13 +0000

Sadly, Maine has become a very liberal State over the last decade. I used to think that they might be the one State that could maintain the balance between red and blue, but it didn’t happen. It appears that NH might be next. Maybe they’ll be the State of moderation? Stranger things have happened. Am I alone in wishing that politics was not evolving into the extreme left vs the extreme right. Since I am neither, I am finding fewer and fewer places to turn.

By: misterbee241

misterbee241 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:01:39 +0000

I guess I’m old school, but why is everything about sex now? And how does a school board give itself authority to prescribe medicine to children without the parents permission? How did this start and where does it stop?
I’m not surprised that pre-teens are having sex. I saw a trailer for Two and a Half Men the other night, and a kid that looked to be about 8 years old was talking about getting laid and erectile dysfunction. That’s why I dont watch the rubbish on the networks, I dont need sex advice from an 8 year old.
But back to topic. I think what we are seeing is a deliberate attempt to further breakdown the unity and the authority of the family. That’s what socialism is all about and our country is moving very quickly in that direction. Once you have the children, you have the nation. I think Adolf said something to that effect.
What really bothered me was some of the parents interviewed said they had no problem with that.
I know things have changed since I was 11 years old, but this is getting scary.

By: puhiawa

puhiawa — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:08:59 +0000

“But to accuse liberals of “prurient interest” is way off the mark and unfair.”

Then I suggest you actually listen to the conversations and review the actions of teachers and liberal educators. They are more than creepy. They clearly have a personal involvement. A very personal involvement.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:32:59 +0000

The Pill and condoms do not prevent STD’s!

Condoms do.

This insistence by liberals of sexualizing children is by projection a form of sexual child abuse. It demonstrates a very unhealthy perspective, almost a voyeurism, by these authorities. There is more than wishful thinking involved here, there is prurient interest.

I got into an argument with a loved one over this. We’re both liberal, but this policy makes me uncomfortable. At the very least, the debate proved to me that it isn’t purient interest. People are looking out for these middle schoolers. I just personally think they’re doing so in an inapproproate fashion.

But to accuse liberals of “purient interest” is way off the mark and unfair.

By: StephC

StephC — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:24:53 +0000

I have an 11 year old daughter, and I find this appalling. I just don’t see how anyone in their right mind would think it’s OK to put an 11 year old on BC. If there is an 11 year old having sex, more than likely it’s because she has been/is being molested and thinks that this is OK. Maybe the school board should be looking into that a little more.

By: atxcowgirl

atxcowgirl — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:00:22 +0000

When did the school board become lawmakers, doctors and pharmacists?

I have a few questions I haven’t seen addressed in what I’ve read.

When I was on the pill many years ago I had to have a Pap test once a year before the doc would refill my prescription. Maybe that’s not being done anymore.

But who is going to check these children out before they start taking the pill? And who is going to take care of them if they develope an adverse reaction to the pill? And does anyone know the long term effects of a child on the pill that hasn’t even started their menses yet? And who is going to pay for the prescription? Are these 11 year olds going to ante up their allowances? Or is it going to come out of the operating fund donated so generously by the local school district taxpayers?

Details, details. Sorry for the rant!

By: puhiawa

puhiawa — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:15:32 +0000

This insistence by liberals of sexualizing children is by projection a form of sexual child abuse. It demonstrates a very unhealthy perspective, almost a voyeurism, by these authorities. There is more than wishful thinking involved here, there is prurient interest.

By: brooklyn red

brooklyn red — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:33:24 +0000

Ummm, what is the “age of consent” in that state? Older than eleven?
This might be kinda like something similar, to something, that might by some people to be considered, you know kinda like a felony.
Now, I am not saying that being an accomplice, enabler or providing material support to a statutory rape is a crime or anything, I’m just sayin…

By: MCPO Airdale

MCPO Airdale — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:33:00 +0000

The NEA and their SP cohorts in the school administrations are destroying America. Their weapon of choice; our own children.

By: granite

granite — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:52:57 +0000

Whoa…sorry for the typos in the last one.

By: granite

granite — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:51:18 +0000

Brian Paasch #14:

Our son and his wife are seriously considering homeschooling their kids.

So sad….

I went through the public schools, and I was as well prepared as anyone I came across at the university.

(The university was also public – state – school, and I found myself as well prepared as any of my classmates at the professional school I went to.)

The first hint of change/decline (beyond the “new math” of the mid-late 60s) with respect to public education, that I can recall, was when I kept hearing over and over again about the importance to of the “relevance” to the student of the topic being taught (late 60s).

I recall in the early 70s hearing my mother (who ahd also gone through the public schools) begin to complain how teachers were no longer being backed up, or given the benefit of the doubt, by parents, or even by “the administration”, when situations with students arose.
She even had money stolen from her pocketbook, and knew who took it; but, of course, got nowhere with that.

I also seem to recall her saying at that time that discipline of students was beginning to disappear.

She finally retired from teaching at 54, after ~30 years, saying she had just burned out.

Home schooliong, while important, is only a half-measure.

The teachers unions must be broken, for any, meaningful, lasting reform.

By: Brian Paasch

Brian Paasch — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:35:32 +0000

We home school our kids. Why?

Let-me-think……

By: Laree

Laree — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:35:26 +0000

I hope this doesn’t get swept under the rug. I really would like to know, what brought on this policy change in the first place…why would anyone want to give birth control pills to little girls? What were they reacting to?