I’ll be talking about this story on my Issues Etc interview in a few minutes. Free condoms to children of all ages? Don’t tell the parents? School population declining? could there be a connection?
Singer said she wanted the policy to apply to the Veterans Memorial Elementary School so that fifth- and sixth-graders could get condoms. There were 17 students in those grades this year, according to state data; there were 69 students in preschool through fourth grade at Veterans.
The policy was approved as the school system contends with a dramatic drop in enrollment — down from 500 students in 1980 to 152 this year. The School Committee recently announced that the high school will close in 2013. The school had 66 students this year; 36 are enrolled for this fall.
According to sources in MA, Provincetown has become such a gay mecca, that straight tourists don’t feel welcome there, with their kids. Parents are referred to as “breeders.” Could that attitude have something to do with the decline in the school-aged population?
Just a thought.