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Condom dispensers in schools


If your teen is dating unsupervised, it's time to talk about condoms and safe sex.
 (File photo / The Spokesman-Review)
If your teen is dating unsupervised, it's time to talk about condoms and safe sex. (File photo / The Spokesman-Review)

KXLY reports: When students in Philadelphia head back to school after Christmas break, there will be a new feature: condom dispensers. The city is installing them in select schools because of a rising rate of STD's. In fact, of new HIV cases in Philadelphia, a quarter of those diagnosed are teenagers. The city says it's serving as a partner with parents in promoting safe sex; critics, though,say this crosses the line and should be the parents' responsibility.

What do you think? Condom dispensers in schools, yes or no?



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.