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PROVINCETOWN — Beginning in September, the Provincetown School Committee will allow any student — regardless of age — to ask for and receive a condom.
The policy, initiated by the public school district's health advisory committee, was approved unanimously by four members of the school committee on June 10, school committee chairman Peter Grosso said yesterday. The fifth member of the school board, Kerry Adams, was absent from the June 10 meeting.
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"The thing is, sexual activity starts younger and younger," Grosso said. "We don't know what age that is. So we just said, 'We'll make it available to all of them.' We didn't want to pick an age, and I really don't believe we're going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter."
In Massachusetts, individual school districts make their own policies about the distribution of condoms, Heidi Guarino of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said yesterday.
The new condom policy is admittedly different than most, Provincetown school Supt. Beth Singer said yesterday.
"Typically they are building-specific," said Singer, noting condom policies have been adopted for Bay State high schools. "We're not such a building-specific district."
The school district in the current year had 86 students from kindergarten to sixth grade in the elementary school, and 66 students from grades seven through 12 in the high school.
Provincetown is among the smallest K-12 public school districts in the state and is in the midst of a reorganization. Singer was hired last summer, and earlier this year the school committee voted to close the high school in 2013 because of declining enrollment.
Part of the reorganization plan calls for using the school district's two buildings — one traditionally the elementary school and one the high school — as a blended campus for the remaining kindergarten through eighth-grade students.
Under the new condom policy, a student can go to the school nurse and ask for a condom, and not be turned away, even if the request is a joke, Singer said yesterday. The nurse would offer counseling and the option to talk to other trained counselors.
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That's just nuts :nuts:
The policy, initiated by the public school district's health advisory committee, was approved unanimously by four members of the school committee on June 10, school committee chairman Peter Grosso said yesterday. The fifth member of the school board, Kerry Adams, was absent from the June 10 meeting.
Related Stories
* Gov. Patrick objects to P'town condom plan
"The thing is, sexual activity starts younger and younger," Grosso said. "We don't know what age that is. So we just said, 'We'll make it available to all of them.' We didn't want to pick an age, and I really don't believe we're going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter."
In Massachusetts, individual school districts make their own policies about the distribution of condoms, Heidi Guarino of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said yesterday.
The new condom policy is admittedly different than most, Provincetown school Supt. Beth Singer said yesterday.
"Typically they are building-specific," said Singer, noting condom policies have been adopted for Bay State high schools. "We're not such a building-specific district."
The school district in the current year had 86 students from kindergarten to sixth grade in the elementary school, and 66 students from grades seven through 12 in the high school.
Provincetown is among the smallest K-12 public school districts in the state and is in the midst of a reorganization. Singer was hired last summer, and earlier this year the school committee voted to close the high school in 2013 because of declining enrollment.
Part of the reorganization plan calls for using the school district's two buildings — one traditionally the elementary school and one the high school — as a blended campus for the remaining kindergarten through eighth-grade students.
Under the new condom policy, a student can go to the school nurse and ask for a condom, and not be turned away, even if the request is a joke, Singer said yesterday. The nurse would offer counseling and the option to talk to other trained counselors.
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That's just nuts :nuts:
P'town schools to distribute condoms
PROVINCETOWN — Beginning in September, the Provincetown School Committee will allow any student — regardless of age — to ask for and receive a condom.
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. I mean they might as well start vending drugs, kids are doing drugs anyway, they might as well cutout the middleman. Sure lets tell them how to get drugs. 
