Should High Schools Offer Free STD and Pregnancy Tests For Students?
At Port Chester High School in New York, officials have signed off on a new service that has lots of folks up in arms. They’ll now be offering free STD and pregnancy testing to any student who asks … without parental consent or notification. While many people are squirming in their seats thinking about the moral and religious implications of this decision, I gotta say woo hoo! Here’s why. I’ve already told you guys that I used to be a teacher at an all-girls Catholic school in California. And I can almost imagine the shock and awe on the faces of the students, faculty, and parents if the school instituted a policy like this. At my school, Catholic values ruled the roost. Students attended mass on a weekly basis, were taught sex ed under the umbrella of religion classes, and were expelled from the school if they got pregnant out of wedlock. One time, a faculty member accidentally booked a Planned Parenthood affiliated organization to speak at an assembly and the administration went ap
