Should birth control be available on campus? No.

“Let’s have the ‘talk’. Yes, I mean that talk.”

What high school student hasn’t heard this from their parents at one point or another?

Parents dread this conversation as much as their kids. It’s uncomfortable to have a conversation about “the birds and the bees” with the one that raised you.

If a kid can’t even comfortably talk to their parent about sex, talking to them about getting sexually involved is going to be that much harder.

No way is that kid ever going to get up the courage to explain that they need to go to the drug store or the doctor to get some contraceptives.

This results in a lot of couples not properly using contraceptives when they get sexually involved, and sometimes not even using them at all.

Thus we get a problem like we have now: 25% of all American girls, ages 14-19, have an STD, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

High schools have posed a solution, one that they have been posing for a long time just to get the rate of teen pregnancies down. Many schools have considered giving out free contraceptives on campus.

If a high school feels that this is the only way to bring down the rate of teen pregnancies, or STDs, they must know that they are not doing a very good job in the education department.

Yes, we all know that teens have that mentality of “I do what I want!” But that does not mean that they cannot be educated on what it means to be sexually involved.

High schools should first develop a program at their school to educat teens about, not only abstinence, but also safe sex and how to use contraceptives.

This way, if a girl really wants to stay safe from STDs or an unexpected pregnancy, she is going to take it into her own hands.

She will go to Planned Parenthood and get the proper information and contraceptives. She will make sure her boyfriend wears a condom. And she will know what is at risk because she will have been taught more about sexual involvement then just abstinence

Let’s face it; teens have sex, so high schools should tell them how to do it properly, not just hand out the contraceptives and say “have fun kids.”

Some still think that teaching kids about safe sex isn’t enough to protect them from unwanted pregnancies and STDs, and in part they are right.

But is it the school’s place to hand out contraceptives? Having sex is not a school related activity. A high school’s sole purpose is educating its youth. It has always been this way and it should continue this way.

What’s next, abortion on campus?

Yes, there is a nurse on campus who is not educationally connected to anything, but the nurse’s job is just to take care of students while at school, not while out of school.

That is the parent’s job, or the student’s.  

A better use of governmental funds, instead of spending it on contraceptives for schools, would be to fund a completely separate clinic.

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