They should be brought up on child endangerment charges:

A Portland, ME. middle school not only wants to hand out condoms without parental consent, they want to pass out the Pill, as well!

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.

Of 134 students who visited King's health center during the 2006-07 school year, five students, or 4 percent, reported having sexual intercourse, said Amanda Rowe, lead nurse in Portland's school health centers.

"This is a service that is totally needed," Rowe said. "It's about very few kids, but they are kids who don't have the same opportunities and access as other students."

What ever happened to, "Knock it off, keep your zipper up and cross your legs?" What ever happened to letting the parents know that their kids are engaging in risk-taking behaviors that can literally result in premature death?

I work in schools. I know for a fact that kids can't get a friggen Tylenol without an act of Congress, and parental permission, yet this school wants to act like a drug pusher, and give kids heavy duty medication without the knowledge of their parents?? Not to mention putting these kids at risk by letting them think it's okay to have sex just because they're on the Pill.

If I was a parent of one of those kids, I'd be livid, and would have my attorney on these pervert slimeballs like stink on shit.

They have the gall to call themselves educators? Educators for who, the porn industry?

Face it, folks, the neo-socialist liberals are hellbent on destroying our society, one child at a time.