Birth Control

[hyperdulia again]

That's actually a theory of mine.

[Farsight one]

Me mum brought up a good point about this earlier, which some one else already brought up, but I'll mention it again.

If a teacher is caught giving a student, even if that student has a migraine headache, even one Tylenol, they can lose their job. It is highly illegal. But, for some reason, birth control pills don't apply to this? That makes no sense.

side note - it was cool for everyone in my geometry class, cuz my mom was the teacher. If someone had a headache, they'd ask for Tylenol, she'd say no, and I'd get up and go boost it from her desk.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Farsight one' post='1405231' date='Oct 19 2007, 07:15 AM']Me mum brought up a good point about this earlier, which some one else already brought up, but I'll mention it again.

If a teacher is caught giving a student, even if that student has a migraine headache, even one Tylenol, they can lose their job. It is highly illegal. But, for some reason, birth control pills don't apply to this? That makes no sense.

side note - it was cool for everyone in my geometry class, cuz my mom was the teacher. If someone had a headache, they'd ask for Tylenol, she'd say no, and I'd get up and go boost it from her desk. [/quote]

It's true. When I was teaching I'd have students asking me for a tylenol or something, and couldn't give them anything. I couldn't let them have their own meds in the room, but had to make them check it in with the school nurse.

[Norseman82]

I'm sick and tired of kids being a football kicked around between parents and kids in some type of power game. The lack of respect by the schools of parental authority is sickening. It's like they are trying to "push the envelope" in seeing how far they can intrude on parental authority. How long before the schools are going to be setting up Hitler-youth type programs where the kids will be turning the parents in to the Gestapo thought police for not toeing the PC line? How long before "the kids belong to the state"?

One example: recently in Chicago, a school decided that "Chocolate Wars" would be required reading for either sixth or seventh graders in a SW side school (for those who don't know Chicago demographics, this is a traditionally staunchly Catholic part of the city). Now, I never read the book, but it supposedly has some vulgar sexual references in it, and parents did not like the idea of younger kids overhearing the older kids talk about it. The principal's reaction was that if the parents prevented their kids from reading the book, the kids would be penalized grade-wise.

Additionally, with all the effort given to birth control pills, how much more serious problems are being ignored, like reporting TRUE instances of child abuse to DCFS or stopping schoolyard bullying?

[Autumn Dusk]

It will be when parents start acting like parents. There are few good, ideal homes hat kids come from anymore. Most parents expect the school to raise their kids, they don't dicipline, they don't care. There are more abused kids than ever, but parents are hiding it better. There are more below the povety line, more single parent households, more domestic violence. Can you really blame the school for trying to prevent things as they see best?

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Autumn Dusk' post='1406583' date='Oct 21 2007, 02:06 PM']It will be when parents start acting like parents. There are few good, ideal homes hat kids come from anymore. Most parents expect the school to raise their kids, they don't dicipline, they don't care. There are more abused kids than ever, but parents are hiding it better. There are more below the povety line, more single parent households, more domestic violence. Can you really blame the school for trying to prevent things as they see best?[/quote]

That's the whole point - the schools are getting it BACKWARDS! They are corrupting young people by getting them involved with immorality instead of fighting REAL abuse and neglect!

[cathoholic_anonymous]

Don't get me started on this issue.

I'm the Mental Health Officer for my college. I have a budget of £350 per year. That figure could just about cover the costs of renting a room for the members of the weekly eating disorders support group to use for a year's worth of meetings. Just about. Unfortunately, I can't afford to give them anything, so they have to meet in members' bedrooms. Organising Mental Health Week, running the awareness campaigns, and bringing in outside speakers takes up all the funding.

The students' union provides contraception for free at various points in the year (during Freshers' Week or at their 'Sexpert' advice sessions) and sells heavily subsidised condoms during the rest of the year. Yet they worry because the night-time phone service we provide for students with mental health difficulties is always so low on money. Personally, I am a lot more concerned about students who are feeling ill and frightened in the middle of the night than I am about students who want to have sex in the middle of the night.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Norseman82' post='1406620' date='Oct 21 2007, 02:01 PM']That's the whole point - the schools are getting it BACKWARDS! They are corrupting young people by getting them involved with immorality instead of fighting REAL abuse and neglect![/quote]
yup

[OmniaInstaurareInChristo]

The King Middle School controversy is in my city of Portland, Maine. You can read our bishop's statement here:
[url="http://portlanddiocese.net/newsroom.php?nid=149"]http://portlanddiocese.net/newsroom.php?nid=149[/url]