It's like giving a condom to a First Grader ...Oh, Wait

Linda, 

Ya don't blog...

Ya don't tweet...

Ya don't vlog...

I know. I know. I've been a bad girl. 

Actually, I've been a drained girl. We have been in Vacation Bible School all week. 

I'm teaching (14) five year olds.

Enough said?

I'm sitting here trying to catch up on all the news and current events, right?
Oh you know the kind....

Psychic Octopus predicting the World Cup results
Oprah rigging votes in her talkshow contest
Condoms for Kindergarteners 

HUH?

Come again.

The Governor of Massachusetts objects to the policy allowing elementary *YES ELEMENTARY* students the right to receive FREE condoms.

 He's also objecting to the part of the policy that PROHIBITS parents from finding out.
(If their child receives condom/sexual counseling).

:GULP:

Gov. Deval Patrick says:

"I don't want first-graders having access to condoms, but I don't want first-graders to be sexually active. And, frankly, I don't think the superintendent does, either. And I think parents should be involved, and I say that as a parent."

You don't want first graders to be sexually active? This saddens me to no end.
Why should this statement even come out of someones mouth?
WOW!
WOW!
WOW!

(Yes, I know we live in a different world now. BUT STILL!)

My lil guy turned 7 in March and he will enter the 2nd grade this year. SEX? on his mind?
uhhhhhhhhhhh NO!
Me thinking sex is on his mind at this age?
NOPE!

My oldest is 11 and will be in the 6th grade this year.
Sex on her mind? NOPE
I also have no thoughts of sex being on her mind.

My children are just that....CHILDREN.
I'm not saying that they are angels. NO WAY!
But
They are child-like.
They are not innocent but they are INNOCENT *You know what I mean.
I want them to stay this way until they are like 25.
Or until they actually ya know WANT TO GROW UP.
If they want to run up and down the road acting like a dinosaur.
LET THEM!
I don't care if the 3rd grader next door thinks it's "immature".
I really don't.

Would they still be this innocent and child like if they were in a public school setting?
I don't know.
I really don't.

I would like to think so but....

~end of rant~
**ok, not really**

Headlines and stories like the one above scare the (you know what outta me).
Is this how it is in school now days?

Do they really need provisions/revisions to school rules regarding the distribution of condoms in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WHY ON EARTH would something like this even be in the handbook?

And this governor wants to keep the parent completely out of the loop?
Are you kidding me?

This is scary.

I'll quote what one of the commenters on that piece said:

Elementary school kids cannot even go to a field trip WITHOUT parents' approval; yet they CAN get contraception WITHOUT the parents' knowledge?? They can't even get cold medicine, but they can get condoms WITHOUT parents' approval.

What are your thoughts?
This parenting thing is tough, huh?