I’m a principal at a high school and we will start providing free cond

I’m a principal at a high school and we will start providing free condoms.

Oct 12, 2025

cuipingcheng

I (43f) am a principal at a high school in Colorado. Recently, there was a meeting about improving sex Ed. I heard that Vermont would be the first state to require secondary schools to provide condoms in the nurses office. I thought it was a fantastic idea. We, as in the staff, superintendent and district, voted to provide free condoms in the nurse's office for juniors and seniors. We sent a poll out to the parents emails. 61% voted yes and 39% votes no. Meaning there will be many, many upset parents but teens can not be stopped and it's much better if they are able to protect themselves. I have caught a few students having sex in the bathroom. Typically they are supposed to be suspended, punished, etc- but they would beg me not to tell their parents with legit fear in their eyes. I realized then that they are the products of strict parenting which pushed them to have sex in unsafe places. So I would not tell their parents but I would subject them to consequences like volunteering in the office instead of getting lunch break for a week or so. So- Free condoms will be in the nurse's office for juniors and seniors. Students can come by and pick them up, no comments needed from either side. This will go into effect after Christmas break. Should we add or do anything else? I was thinking about booklets that will let students know where they can get cheap/free resources if they aren't comfortable with going to the nurse. Should we print and administer those as well? There is a sex Ed crisis in American society and it needs to be combatted.

Top Comments:

If you want to improve sex-ed, make a way for a student to anonymously ask a question whether it be with a note or whatever, and have a plane with all the questions and answers in the lobby or the toilets or halls, wherever every 2 weeks.

Should we add or do anything else? Don't know how common that is on US schools, but maybe a box where students can drop of questions or anything more or less without anyone taking notice? And then the nurse's or someone responsible gets in contact with them to resolve that question (if it falls within the schools purview that is)

Even maybe type up all the questions and post answers on a board? That way people don't think their question is stupid when they see other "stupid" questions there.

we had this during a class at my school but slightly different. Everyone in the class had a piece of paper to write a question that they had about sex, std's, their body etc. and had to put it in the box. if you didn't have a question you just had to write "i dont have a question". The teacher then picked at random out the box and answered to the whole class. doing it this way prevented anyone being singled out, and even let students hear answers to questions they didn't know they had. I feel like the question box for the nurse is a great idea, but kids may feel 'bait' being seen even by the nurse to add a question, or may not go out their way to ask something. in this scenario, everyone gets to ask, and it remains anonymous. I think this could be a good fit for your sex ed class.