High School Condom Club (12 Free Condoms A Week)

[matcom]

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My son is settling into his first year of high school and, like all parents concerned over a teenager's future, I'm wondering whether, besides keeping up with his classes, my son is getting involved in a diverse range of school activities.

He's trying out for the soccer team. He's eyeing a spot on a barbecue team that serves lunches to students once a week. He's considering joining a club. Maybe the Environmental Club. The Snowboard Club. Or the Outdoors Club.

For now, he's ruled out joining one club.

The Condom Club.

Let me tell you how I found out that my son's school even has a Condom Club: e-mail.

I learned my son's high school has a Condom Club through an e-mail.

Not an e-mail from a concerned parent. An e-mail from Berkeley High. The news was contained in the Student Daily Bulletin.

The kind teachers and parents at Berkeley High dispatch this report to everyone who's signed up for it. Most of the entries are mundane. The high school has a canned food drive. There are after-school jobs available from the city. The Jewish Student Union is meeting for lunch in room A105. Interested in joining the Mountain Bike team? Go to Room H301 next Thursday.

And, by the way, having sex? Join the Condom Club.

No exaggeration. My son was invited to join the Condom Club by his high school, which even broadcast the invitation a few times over the loudspeaker system.

Now, perhaps because my ninth-grade son is my oldest child, I have not yet confronted the fact of life that all parents must face someday: the thought of our own child having consensual sex. So I was startled when I read these exact words in the Berkeley High bulletin: Having sex? Thinking about having sex? Sign up for Condom Club now! Bring your lunch and come to classroom G103 on Wednesday, October 12th to join. Come once and get a sticker for the back of your student ID. Show your ID at the Health Center and receive 12 free condoms a week. Free food.

more (and pretty funny)..... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/13/ING2HFM81O1.DTL

[Arkana]

1. How long will it take the Flying Monkey Fundies

to swoop in, screeching "CONDOMS PROMOTE SEXUAL RELATIONS!!!!"?

[Coventina]

2. 12 condoms a week! Wow! That's impressive!

:D

[seemunkee]

3. 12 a week???

I went to the wrong high school.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. You and me both .

Not that I did anything that needed condoms in HS ( no action whatsoever ) but my fellow classmates would have loved it for sure .

[tigereye]

4. well, it is Berkeley!

there must be somewhere between this and the "total abstinence, no sex info" perspective, though.