A new policy in Provincetown to make condoms available to even first-graders is being called “absurd” and a frantic overreaction to sex education.
“What’s next? Birth control pills?” asked Kris Mineau, head of the conservative group Massachusetts Family Institute.
“It’s totally absurd,” he said, adding the institute will support parents looking to legally challenge the policy.
Yet school leaders in this tiny tourist town on the tip of Cape Cod said the intent is to counsel kids before they hit the hormone-fueled middle and high school years.
“They are children. They often act without information - on assumption, things they’ve heard, rumor, myth,” said school Superintendent Beth Singer. “I think information is always important for kids.”
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