Have you heard about this yet?

When the Portland, Maine, School Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to make birth control pills available to middle school girls as young as 11, the response provided the latest evidence that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids. The debate was passionate, as you’d expect over an issue that touches so deeply our concerns about what our kids know and do — and when — and the messages we send them. To school officials and public health advocates who favored the measure, this was a question of confronting reality. Five of the 134 students who visited King Middle School’s health center last year admitted they were sexually active; in the last four years, Portland’s three middle schools reported 17 pregnancies, not counting miscarriages or unreported pregnancies that ended in abortions…. READ THE REST AT TIME.COM

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How do you feel about this? Which side are you on, and why? Are you on any side at all? How would you react, if you have a middle school aged child and this was happening in your school district?

Leave a comment, or leave me a link to the post where you responded to this issue, and I’ll post the link to your reaction here!

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