Yeah but see I think they need to go to a clinic. Where the nurses are trained and specialized in that kind of stuff. School nurses only study a general curriculum. What if something went wrong and a girl had a super bad reaction to the morning after pill? Then it would be a liability to the school. Which with the way public schooling is headed, they really don't need.
Also, I think a lot of the problems is with the parents. I think the parents need to be more open to the subject of sex. You cannot just be like my mom and forbid certain people and forbid sex and such. Because that is exactly what your teen will go for. You have to be understanding. You cannot control what your kids do. You can try and try for everything your worth, but it is never going to happen. I plan on giving josh the *talk* at a pretty early age, and talk about it quite often thereafter. I will tell him that I really do not want him to have sex, but if he insists, then at least be man enough to come to me and tell me. I would gladly supply condoms, and ask if I needed to help his girlfriend get on birth control. What teens sometimes need are options, not restrictions. If our parents generations had been more understanding, then maybe ours would have been less rebellious. I know parents try to keep their kids from making the same mistakes they did, but they cant. People need to make their own mistakes, its a part of life. People tend to learn form their own mistakes, not others'. Like I said, if you dont suffer the consequences of your own mistakes, you will never learn. So yes, parents need to be more open about sex, but just because they aren't, doesn't mean that schools need to go behind the back of the parents giving these girls pills. I think an intervention and family counseling is what is needed.
And ita, michelle. U bet any school gave my daughter that pill I would pull her from their quicker than they can pull my foot out of their ass.
Edit~just to prove a point, in the 8th grade I was suspended from school for 5 days for having sex-related parafanalia. They found a condom box in my backpack during a search. Not condoms, the box. While I was being safe, they were saying it was wrong. Or at least that was the message I got. What kind of hypocriticism is this? Ban condoms but condone m/a pills? Also, my little bropther got suspended from the same school on friday, for 3 days, because they found a condom in his shoe. He is no longer allowed to attend public schools because he has been suspended 3 times this year for pure idiocy. For being a teen boy. I think they single him out because they know he is my brother, and I was expelled from there for basically being the class clown. Doing stuff like mooning my pe class and back-talking with a smart mouth. I was sent to a second chance school where all but 1 person was their fore either possession, or fighting. Now tell me, is our public school systems focus where it needs to be? That is something the presidential candidates should be working on. Not worrying about m/a pills. Worrying about the futures they put at stake with the poor consideration they put into discipline.