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Kids Suspended for Wearing Condoms to School

Posted by Karen Murphy

condom shirtYeah, I saw this headline and wondered just how many ways you can wear a condom in public without it being...well, you know.

So, would you have guessed that the condoms were decorating t-shirts? Me neither. Oh well. Slightly disappointing, that, but what's not in the least disappointing is the fact that two girls wore condom-decorated t-shirts to school in order to protest the wimpy abstinence-only sex-ed program at their middle school. Too bad the school took a dim view of the protest and sent the girls home.

Cheyenne Bird, 14, and Victoria Shoemaker, 15 were sent packing after they came to school packing condoms on shirts that proclaimed "Safe Sex or No Sex". I would be incredibly proud if my kid stages a protest (even an apparently futile one, like this one) like that, but MomLogic interviewed the moms of both girls and the moms weren't 100% supportive. I'm sure there's a bit more to the story and there's tons of emotions and moral values running rampant in such a discussion (not to mention the rampant hormones), and no parent likes hearing their kid was suspended from school, but...c'mon, what's a few condoms between friends, after all?

Photo: www.momlogic.com


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AllisonWonder said:

I'd be proud of my kid for that!

February 11, 2008 2:55 AM

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