Maine Middleschool Nurses Could Start Giving Kids The Pill

Because if you give the school nurse permission to treat your kid for a headache or a scratched knee, that obviously means they’ve got permission to give your kid birth control too.

Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School’s health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.
The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center’s practice of providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city’s student health centers.
If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Most middle schoolers are ages 11-13.
Although students must have written parental permission to be treated at Portland’s school-based health centers, state law allows them to seek confidential health care and to decide whether to inform their parents about the services they receive, Belanger said.
Proponents say a small number of King students are sexually active, but those who are need better access to birth control.

Right. Because a sexually-active 11 to thirteen-year-old doesn’t need to have his/her parents notified. Nope. Instead that needs condoms and/or birth control.
Here’s a thought? How about we just turn our kids over to the public schools so that the state can raise them? I mean, if our kids can go to the school nurse and get birth control, why not? Heck, Planned Parenthood will even give our kids abortions without telling us. So who needs parents?
Sarcasm aside, if there ever was at time for school vouchers to let us spend our education tax dollars at the schools we most favor the time is now. Something needs to be done to break up this ever-creeping level of control the schools have over both us and our kids.