New York High School Nixes Plan to Distribute Condoms at Prom
- Posted on May 27, 2012 at 6:49pm by
Erica Ritz
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Principal Darryl Rascoe has revised the plan to distribute condoms to high school students (Photo: Facebook via New York Daily News)
Earlier this week, it was reported that New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School was planning to distribute condoms to students as they left their prom.
The school’s principal reportedly told the New York Daily News, “This is necessary…It‘s practical and it’s the right thing to do.”
About 25 students were expected to attend the prom, and the principal explained that there have already been several students in the school with children.
“We’re fooling ourselves if we think we can leave this up to [teens] to be proactive,” he concluded.
But now, following national disgust over the matter– and the fact that distributing condoms to high school students is in many ways tacit approval of the act– the school has seemingly revised its plan.
Watch Fox News contributors explain the issue, below:
Fox News contributor Santita Jackson examined the dilemma from another angle, saying: “I’m looking at the profit motive here, because … this pharmaceutical company who are making the condoms are passing them out.”
She continued, “You cannot have privilege without responsibility … because I don’t think that you should be passing out condoms like you’re passing out candy to these children.”
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Comments (63)
LetsBeSmartAboutThis
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:39amYOU get a trophy, and YOU get a trophy and YOU get a trophy … has now evolved to; YOU get a condom, and YOU get a condom, and YOU get a condom…
We keep sending our children the WRONG message. School principals and teachers SHOULD BE SMARTER THAN THIS!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:56am“Santita Jackson examined the dilemma from another angle, saying: I’m looking at the profit motive here” Hmmm so perhaps it is Planned Parenthood who is fighting the distribution of the condoms for a more sinister profit motive. No condoms, more girls have unwanted pregnancies, more abortions. Yea that’s it.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:38amHaven’t you heard of the “Dumbing Down of America” program? It all starts in school.
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:18amWhen a school feels the need to distribute sex paraphernalia on prom night, it’s time to reassess the custom of having a prom. The kids are obviously not mature enough to celebrate responsibly. Schools are supposed to facilitate knowledge. What do proms have to do with knowledge anyway? If you want to encourage kids to dance with a partner, send them to dancing school. If you want to encourage kids to dress up and indulge in alcohol, drugs, and sex, send them to a prom.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:11pmWent to many area school proms in high school and never once needed a condom. Reason: I was raised properly to respect my body and not let anyone take away the gift God gave us, the ability to be a virgin when you marry, giving your marriage partner the best gift of all, love and purity.
Giving yourself to a one night stand, or worse, doesn’t make you special. If anything it makes you used and worn out for the next person to use. That’s what we used to call a tramp. Today “they” encourage sex by giving them condoms at prom, kinda like giving permission to be trashy, and have no values or morals. Girls, it‘s your body and you shouldn’t give it away. Wait for marriage.
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:20pmYou two sound like you would agree with the biblical pronouncement to kill non-virgin woman on their wedding night.
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:37pm@scienceisnotevil
I don’t believe non-virgins should be killed on their wedding night anymore than I believe science is evil. Nothing I said would even infer that. I simply said modern proms are leading to a great deal of sex and alcohol abuse in some schools by a lot of immature kids. Therefore it may be best to do away with them. You, Mr. Science, are into gross distortion of other people’s words. Why?
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:09amSo now democrats will blame the school for ANY pregnancies that occur.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:02pmThey should be blaming Hollywood.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:49pmPres.Obama’s line about his girls being “punished” with a baby, makes your statement so true. “Good-girls use to have the upper-hand and it was funny when the joke went around (the old days, 60′s) when it was said, “the girl was THE ONLY ONE who knew how prom night was going to end”.
Report Post »And the beat goes on.
Living In NYC
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:21amDarryl my man, thanks for showing our kids the way…NOT! I think Mr. Hatchett in Knoxville needs your progessive teachings, seems that he didn‘t learn that you shouldn’t play if you can’t pay!
Are you nutZ, giving kids condoms that’s like giving a non-user herion and a needle and telling them it’s ok..have fun! You will go down as a great educator!
Report Post »Wibbins
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:19amWait, 25 students are going to attend prom? When I went to prom we had like 200-300, why do they only have 25 students? That brings up another question, are students barred from prom if they have low grades or get kicked out?
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:11amwhat is with the odd number? Is there a threesome or is somebody going alone….does that person in fact need a condom? we gots to know!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:23amI don’t think that you should be passing out condoms like you’re passing out candy to these children.”It worked in The Coneheads, they used condoms like candy.
Report Post »hudstim
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:54amsince the US public “education” system primarily tuns out propagandized liberal turds, shouldn’t we just give in and let them distribute the condoms, limiting their ability to reproduce even more turds?
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:17amDo these people ever have to pay for their own needs or wants in life? If these kids want condoms, let them pay for them on their own like the rest of us have to do.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:05pmYou do not owe anyone left, right or in the middle your souls. You better know God means business. It is not me who you take this up with, it is Him. He made the laws and psysics of this very earth from his very word and it operates how He says it operates. You stand for man and you will fail. You know you owe God your allegience and your very next breath. Most people are about vanity, materialism, trying to be better or more knowlegable than the next. Why? Silliness, nothing more than children playing but adults better know we are dealing with things beyond our control and if we are to come out of this all people better start praying to the One God who created Heaven and earth and all therein.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:02pmCheck out Kool Mo Dee the principal. I bet he is running one heck of a institution of learning.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:01pmWhen people fornicate outside marriage it is a sin for the male as well as the female. Give your children the most important thing you will ever give them and that is a chance to avoid hell. Whether you or they believe in this or not, does not negate the fact that it is real. You may get yourselves a King James Bible (1611) and not no watered down version and get to reading, studying and find a good Bible believeing Church and get your families back to basics. If you are too lazy to do that, then meet your children in the flames of hell for that is where they are headed. No amount of being modern, cool or keeping up with the Jones’ is going to keep you out of hell. Hell is everlasting. You do your part and God will do His.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:58pm“But now, following national disgust over the matter– and the fact that distributing condoms to high school students is in many ways tacit approval of the act– the school has seemingly revised its plan.”
Which is stupid, because 1) Sex isn’t inherently immoral–I’m sorry, but the opinions of perhaps a majority notwithstanding not only is my opinion CORRECT, it is held by many others which leads me to 2) SOME people don’t share an archaic arbitrary and ill-thought out (if thought out at all) set of moral values and WILL have sex regardless (and indeed some of them are perfectly capable of making that choice). REGARDLESS of whether or not the sex is “prudent” (and without knowledge of every individual situation, the conservative claim that it is categorically “immoral” has little evidence offered to substantiate it), it CERTAINLY ought to be SAFER than it could otherwise be. Letting your emotions get in the way of this obviously rational conclusion is nothing more than base stupidity. Even IF giving out more condoms results in more sex, as long as it results in FEWER pregnancies and STDs, it has done its job.
“Fox News contributor Santita Jackson examined the dilemma from another angle, saying: “I’m looking at the profit motive here, because … this pharmaceutical company who are making the condoms are passing them out.”
Report Post »Oh, so NOW the profit motive isn’t okay? Can you people even be consistent on YOUR OWN values?
Jaycen
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:09pmAppeal to Consensus – Because others think this way, I’m right.
Genius!
Your entire rant is unwarranted and without merit. It’s a strawman. You brought all of those arguments up and then attacked them, as if someone here had made any of those claims. You’re so dumb, it hurts to read your words.
I want young people to not have sex, because they’re more likely to grow up successful, and they’re more likely to achieve success earlier in life. They’re less likely to struggle with money. They’re more likely to marry and stay married.
When they have children (which WILL happen if they’re sexually active unless you actually castrate them) they’re more likely to bring the children up in a stable 2-parent household. They’re less likely to struggle to provide for their children.
Those are the reasons, Third Reichtard.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:37amActually you demonstrate precisely the kind of arguments I responded to, and moreover they are EXACTLY the kinds of “reasoning” deployed AGAINST simple smart policies of harm reduction.
For starters, I’m not appealing to consensus–on the contrary, I explicitly recognize (you‘d know if you’d comprehended my comment) that my opinion may very will be the minority view. Nevertheless, it is the INTELLIGENT view. the view corroborated by empirical EVIDENCE. In any population which is CAPABLE of sexual activity, SOME percentage WILL engage in sexual activity. Now, I, unlike you, don’t think this is inherently a bad thing in and of itself–we are blessed by science to live in a time where we have MEANS to mitigate the EXACT risks you describe (unwanted pregnancy and STIs, and the impacts these things have on individuals’ lives). So what REASONABLE grounds can there be NOT to employ these means?
Even if you HAD given sufficient reason to conclude sex between young adults was ALWAYS immoral and imprudent, that still would not be an argument for PURPOSEFULLY making that sex, which we KNOW happens and likely WILL ALWAYS happen, less safe–the alternative of “do nothing” leads to the EXACT consequences you PROFESS wanting to avoid in the first place.
Making sex that may or may not happen SAFER is a worthy goal–merely reducing the AMOUNT of sex engaged in by young people does nothing for them, because those who still DO won’t be safe, and THAT is the problem.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:25amThey just heed to learn personal responsibility, something that is sorely lacking in many kids and their parents and teachers.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:07amI’m willing to bet six to one, half a dozen to the other, that the Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School has a health clinic. And I’m willing to go even further and say that the school health clinic has a large bowl on a credenza somewhere that is just filled with neatly wrapped condoms. Any student in that school can go in there and get a handful (Take two, they’re small!) before prom night without any problems or judgment.
I’d also like to point out that there is a whole teen age subculture where girls proudly flaunt their “baby daddy” and how many babies they have. Principal Rascoe has already admitted that there are students with children enrolled already. So, why should they have to have more condoms available? It just blantantly says that the school expects couple to have sex on prom night, which is not the message they should be sending.
Report Post »GtrchompJax
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:52pmI have always been pretty conservative but I worked for a private, non-profit, HS girls org keeping them out of trouble, jail, pregnant, bad men, etc. and they always had condoms available for their students and the incoming stories they published in their intake interviews explained that they were active WAY before we got to them and that ranged from 13-17 yrs old so it was practical and smart to help them not get pregnant, sometimes again, because once their wares were sampled by the thugs that took advantage of them you are going to have a hell of a time trying to close the barn door after all the animals have already scattered. The kids are going to be active whether the adults like it or not, especially at an inner city school with the top notch parental role models they probably have to emulate. Face reality and quit dreaming about a utopian social environment.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:05pmYeah, we should just give up and quit trying to get people to parent their children. Heck, no matter what you do, murderers are probably going to murder again. We shouldn’t bother locking up murderers. Hey, you know what the recitivism rate for pedophiles is? We should just give up trying to deal with those guys, too.
You know, giong to work every day is hard. We should just give up on that. Going to the store sucks, and we’re just going to eat all the food we buy and have to go back…let’s just stop eating and lay down and die. Your philosophy rocks.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:41amUnlike “abstinence-only” approaches to sex education, locking up murders actually has the intended effect–preventing them from murdering again. Going to work, and the store, ALSO have their intended effects–namely being able to provide for oneself.
Report Post »foxdogs
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:52amPeople generally perform up to or down to what is expected of them. Our low expectations of these primarily minority students in urban schools and our actions based on those expectations have relegated a significant percentage of our population to the lowest economic and social tier and permanent dependence on government handouts.
Passing out condoms is not necessarily condoning the students behavior but just joins the dumbing down of curriculum and the lack of any real discipline in the classroom to evidence the schools low expectations of them. We should not be surprised when they meet our expectations.
Report Post »TX_BOI
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 9:12pmIt’s prom, don’t know about everyone else but this is the night where most of our children lose their virginity… how about we give them the tools to be responsible instead of holding their hands all the time. I have 3 girls. I support this because I don’t want any of my daughters to come to me right after high school graduation and tell me that they are pregnant.
Report Post »The will is already there… it’s called hormones! Parent’s will lose everytime!, well 99% of the time.
Plus, by passing out condoms to a couple of hundred kids, saves WELFARE MONEY for the one’s whom do get pregnant and get trapped into the welfare system at a young age and lose hope of performing at their full potential.
I bet if a law passed declarying all Parents of teen parents were to be responsible for their grandchildren till they are 18 and not the teen, things would change in a hurry and people would expect more responsibility and better decisions from there children….. oh wait, no I and every other taxed citizen is responsible in the form of WELFARE….hmmm. THINK ON IT. Our kids are smarter than we were. I think they can handle it.
Mapache
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:11pmGive your own girls condoms if you want to.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:58pmhow about not raising gutter s l u t w h o r e s, and actually raising young girls to grow up and be respectable young ladies.
Sex is a whole lot better and not all of the baggage and pain when you wait until you are married.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:03pmExcuse me, can you please explain how give your kids condoms is NOT holding their hand?
You’re not even consistent in your logic, no wonder you have to worry about what your kids are doing at prom. You’ve pretty much abdicated your parental responsibilities, haven’t you?
Is it not your fault? Do I not understand? Is it too hard? I wonder which dodge you’ll choose. If you really are a parent, I fear for your kids’ future.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:14amWhat you are talking about is PARENTING. It is not, and should not, be under the purview of the school system.
Silversmith
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:57pmDo what ever it takes to keep “those” wink – wink New Yorkers from breeding.
Report Post »For every condom passed out the tax payer saves thousands in the next 18 years in food stamps, prison cost, less of them = less crime
Jaycen
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:14pmSpoken like a true Communist. Every major Communist/Socialist/Nazi/Marxist is a eugenicist.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:42amI tried to convince your parents of the same thing. Nope, you’re here.
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:30pmIt will come to pass that children will play silly little games. Oh, I forgot, this is about teenagers, my bad. Well then, give them a participation trophy and send it home to their parents! They can hang it on the mantle but perhaps they should blow it up first and make pet balloons. Call it contemporary decore!
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:50pmBy the way, we don’t need condoms any more, now that there’s an anti-AIDS pill. We can go ahead and laugh at those 1980s commercials for Ayds, without being shocked at the “horror” of life.
I am desperate to have lunch with Camille Paglia. She was so right and so wrong.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:57pmBuy your own or keep your legs closed and zippers up. Teach your children that fornicating outside marriage is sin. Tell them the truth. Give them some control over their decisions and some confidence and pride as a human being. Get back to basics. Most of the ones that do that will not bother with the condoms any way. When adults hand young people condoms, it is a way of saying it is OK to like like whores and the guys like gutter snipes.
Report Post »LibsAndCopKillersALoveStory
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:50pmIf you have never discussed politics with a NY liberal, you are one lucky person.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:41pmDid you like that, or did I sound sick again? I am not weird. Just shamelessly proud and silly.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:36pmGood. We don’t have to be disgusting. Not all the time.
The chaste male soulmates that keep walking up to me in the new earthly heaven, which is Madison and it’s spreading — ah — they have to hug me, but they strictly hug me around the shoulders, chests not touching.
The new heaven seems mostly to be made of unnaturally beautiful nerds who never get any.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:29pmsOME LEADERS JUST DO NOT THINK.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:19pmif their 18 than is ok because its lawful, i don’t see a problem here.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:32pmtax dollars.
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:38pmCondoning bad behavior should not be at taxpayers expense. Let their Parents teach them at home and if they don’t trust their kids, let them furnish the condoms. That way they will have given their kids permission to behave in whatever behavior they want. Whatever happens will be on them and they will have no one else to blame.
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:24pmHow about if they are 18 then they can buy their own condoms. If fact, IF THEY think they are old enough at 14, 14, 16 or 17 to have sex than they can still buy their own condoms, If they are too embarrassed to buy their own condoms then they are not ready to have a sexual relationship.
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:16pmI would love to hear some of the phone calls he probably had with parents before the plan was revised. What kind of moron thinks you need to pass out condoms? Who really believes that kids will use one if they haven’t already thought enough to have one. Go public school educators.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:16pmSo much of this type of activity of the part of the staff and faculty make me wonder if our schools even have adult supervision.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:11pm“New York High School Nixes Plan to Distribute Condoms at Prom”…
….and decides to just distribute free Viagra, s e x lotions and fisting kits.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:05pmI guess this generation is going to have to learn how to get laid on prom night without the help of the state, just like every generation before them.
Report Post »LibsAndCopKillersALoveStory
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:51pmExpect mayhem.
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