Concerned Women questions school district’s reaction to teen pregnancies
by Bob Kellogg
A conservative women’s group is speaking out against the latest outrage in public school sex education, this one taking place in an Oregon public school district.
The Gervais School District is planning to distribute condoms to students as young as eleven, sparking a debate about the appropriate age for such a plan.
Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America says the policy is divorced from reality.
“Early sexual activity is very problematic, especially for young girls for a whole lot of reasons,” Crouse tells OneNewsNow.
According to Crouse, to hand out condoms at that age, and send “mixed messages” to children as young as 11, is “ridiculous.”
Crouse, Janice (CWA)The school district superintendent told USA Today that nine girls became pregnant during the just-completed school year. That is about five percent of girls in grades six through 12, the newspaper stated.
The story did not state if any of the girls were in the lower middle-school grades.
According to Crouse, those students are just beginning to be aware of their sexuality and the facts of life. The school’s policy forces them into a level of adulthood and decision making that they’re unprepared for, she says.
Instead of teaching them how to use condoms, Crouse says children at that age need to be taught moral values and respect for persons of the opposite sex.
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