Now let's not forget the high incidence of such things in our nation's public schools:
In 1998 the U.S. Dept. of Justice listed 103,600 reported cases of sexual abuse in public schools, while in the 53 years from 1950-2003 there were 10,667 reported cases of clergy sexual abuse nationwide. That's ten times as many in a single year as instances of clerical abuse in more than half a century.And of course we were just talking about this. I wouldn't support this policy even for high-schoolers, but I can at least understand the rationale where 17 & 18-yr-olds are concerned. But 11-year-olds? Eldest Weed is just a few weeks shy of 11, and though he's old enough to have had "the talk," he and the kids in his class are all still just goofy kids. They're still losing their teeth and telling poop jokes. If they're accused of having crushes, they hotly deny it, and you can torment them by saying, "Katie & David, sitting in a tree...." I can promise you that an 11-yr-old girl doesn't need contraceptives to "protect herself" from her peer crushes, such as they are. This is a policy to make life easier for sexual abusers & statutory rapists.
But who the hell cares? It's only women.
