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![By Mike Rizzuto
Sun Times-Journal Editor
If someone asked you to recall the time you spent in elementary school, you’d probably remember learning the alphabet, playing games at recess, and enjoying innocent class parties chaperoned by caring teachers at Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter.
If you were a bit mischievous, like I was, then you might have brought a frog, a worm or a lizard to school to startle the girls.
That’s how it was back at good old Gueydan Elementary School in the 1950s, and my teacher, the late Miss Madeline Broussard, wouldn’t hesitate to use the paddle to warm our butts and teach us accountability.
But boy, how things have changed over the past few decades, especially in places like Provincetown, Massachusetts, which champions some of the most liberal school policies seen and experienced east of San Francisco, California. Like most bastions of progressive thinking, the school district there has implemented some of those wacky policies that have some elementary school parents hopping mad, and for good reason, too!
A condom distribution policy at the elementary school was approved in Provincetown recently for even the youngest students by the school committee, proving once again that social engineering is alive and well in the Great Northeast. Yes, students will be allowed to pick up as many condoms as they want without their parents finding out.
Concerned parents who did not want condoms given to their children were scoffed at by the local school administrators.
Obviously, the liberals there think they know how to raise and teach children better than the parents do!
You’d think that these liberal wack-jobs would have been more than happy with that legislation, but they aren’t. They’re mad because school children are required to ask the school nurse for condoms instead of having them handed out.
“I don’t like that students can’t be discreet about this,” said a school committee member. “They have to go and ask for it. I’d rather them not have the conversation [with counselors] and have the condoms than possibly not having them.”
“I can see some kids opting out because of the conversation,” said another member. “I’m just trying to put myself in that teenager’s spot.”
Oh, yeah! What’s a first grader to do when he/she is out playing hop-scotch with friends and remembers that he/she forgot to ask the school nurse for a condom? Hasn’t that happened to all of us at one time or another during our childhood years?
Provincetown sex education classes should also teach students that condoms aren’t fool proof. Pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS can still result in spite of using a condom. But according to alleged reports, those lessons are not being taught.
“We’re talking about younger kids here,” one board member stated. “They have questions they need answered on how to use them and when to use them.”
“Them” (condoms) appear to be the answer to everything these days in liberal classrooms across the nation. Teach elementary students what “it” is, how to put it on, and how to use it. And then throw caution to the wind!
I’d be willing to bet that latex balloons are probably listed as school contraband in these school districts. But the use of condoms and their distribution without parental knowledge is the law! Go figure!
Teaching abstinence seems to have gone out of style, too. Teachers say that students will have sex no matter what we do, so abstinence is frowned upon. What students should be told is that sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia can still be obtained while using a condom.
I don’t know. I guess I’m just one of those old “fogies” that doesn’t believe in all of that progressive thinking out there today. My other grievous faults include reading the Bible, owning several shotguns, and praying to God each and every night for forgiveness, all things that those really smart people of the liberal elite like Bill Maher repudiates.
And it just might be that the school district that governs Provincetown, Massachusetts will loathe the day when the children grow older and reap the seeds that were sown by these liberal policies. Too many progressives seem to think that teaching condom usage is the answer to all the world’s problems. I’d hate to be the one to burst their balloon (excuse the pun), but there aren’t too many jobs available where precise condom management is preferred over the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic!
Perhaps these misguided progressives should also be made aware that in the final translation, it’s not so much “who is right,” but “what is right.” Miss Madeline Broussard knew what was right, and she passed that knowledge down to us so we would thrive in today’s complex world.
And she never once had to teach us how to use a darn condom, either.](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/1076/assets/Mike_R_42150X150.jpg "By Mike Rizzuto
Sun Times-Journal Editor
If someone asked you to recall the time you spent in elementary school, you’d probably remember learning the alphabet, playing games at recess, and enjoying innocent class parties chaperoned by caring teachers at Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter.
If you were a bit mischievous, like I was, then you might have brought a frog, a worm or a lizard to school to startle the girls.
That’s how it was back at good old Gueydan Elementary School in the 1950s, and my teacher, the late Miss Madeline Broussard, wouldn’t hesitate to use the paddle to warm our butts and teach us accountability.
But boy, how things have changed over the past few decades, especially in places like Provincetown, Massachusetts, which champions some of the most liberal school policies seen and experienced east of San Francisco, California. Like most bastions of progressive thinking, the school district there has implemented some of those wacky policies that have some elementary school parents hopping mad, and for good reason, too!
A condom distribution policy at the elementary school was approved in Provincetown recently for even the youngest students by the school committee, proving once again that social engineering is alive and well in the Great Northeast. Yes, students will be allowed to pick up as many condoms as they want without their parents finding out.
Concerned parents who did not want condoms given to their children were scoffed at by the local school administrators.
Obviously, the liberals there think they know how to raise and teach children better than the parents do!
You’d think that these liberal wack-jobs would have been more than happy with that legislation, but they aren’t. They’re mad because school children are required to ask the school nurse for condoms instead of having them handed out.
“I don’t like that students can’t be discreet about this,” said a school committee member. “They have to go and ask for it. I’d rather them not have the conversation [with counselors] and have the condoms than possibly not having them.”
“I can see some kids opting out because of the conversation,” said another member. “I’m just trying to put myself in that teenager’s spot.”
Oh, yeah! What’s a first grader to do when he/she is out playing hop-scotch with friends and remembers that he/she forgot to ask the school nurse for a condom? Hasn’t that happened to all of us at one time or another during our childhood years?
Provincetown sex education classes should also teach students that condoms aren’t fool proof. Pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS can still result in spite of using a condom. But according to alleged reports, those lessons are not being taught.
“We’re talking about younger kids here,” one board member stated. “They have questions they need answered on how to use them and when to use them.”
“Them” (condoms) appear to be the answer to everything these days in liberal classrooms across the nation. Teach elementary students what “it” is, how to put it on, and how to use it. And then throw caution to the wind!
I’d be willing to bet that latex balloons are probably listed as school contraband in these school districts. But the use of condoms and their distribution without parental knowledge is the law! Go figure!
Teaching abstinence seems to have gone out of style, too. Teachers say that students will have sex no matter what we do, so abstinence is frowned upon. What students should be told is that sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia can still be obtained while using a condom.
I don’t know. I guess I’m just one of those old “fogies” that doesn’t believe in all of that progressive thinking out there today. My other grievous faults include reading the Bible, owning several shotguns, and praying to God each and every night for forgiveness, all things that those really smart people of the liberal elite like Bill Maher repudiates.
And it just might be that the school district that governs Provincetown, Massachusetts will loathe the day when the children grow older and reap the seeds that were sown by these liberal policies. Too many progressives seem to think that teaching condom usage is the answer to all the world’s problems. I’d hate to be the one to burst their balloon (excuse the pun), but there aren’t too many jobs available where precise condom management is preferred over the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic!
Perhaps these misguided progressives should also be made aware that in the final translation, it’s not so much “who is right,” but “what is right.” Miss Madeline Broussard knew what was right, and she passed that knowledge down to us so we would thrive in today’s complex world.
And she never once had to teach us how to use a darn condom, either.")
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