Abstinence favoured instead .- -

RRACE — Terrace school

- trustees ended more than six
months ‘of debate last week by
votin $4 against installing
= condom . machines
“'schéal: washrooms,

in high

rejection follows a Te.

— quest ‘made: last December. by

thé: Skeena health unit board

which. . said placing condom

: Oe way of | preventing the spread of

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AIDS... and. . other
: ransmitted diseases,

sexually

Those. trustees opposing the

‘Teqliest registered their objec-.
..- tlon‘in several areas: — par-
_. ticularly
~ condoms and the moral implica-

the effectiveness of

midchines in high schools is one-

tions of making the available

in high schools,

They added that if the

availability of condom

machines in high schools is an

'- important healt: issue, it is one

the board should only consider
if the request comies from pro-
vincial health authorities,

Those opposed also painted
to last month’s public forum,
where most parents ‘argued
chastity outside marriage and

_ fidelity within — not condoms

— are the best ways to keep
teenagers from contracting the
AIDS virus,

The five trustees opposing

‘condom - machine installation

: did so on. a motion moved by
Terrace trustee. Wayne - Braid

and: seconded by Kitwanga
trustee ‘Delbert Morgan. They

‘were joined by. Terrace trustees .
Lavern Hislop, Eva Daniels,

and John Pousette.

The four trustees to vote

against the- motion were board
chairman Edna Cooper,
Stewart trustee Kris Chapman,

can Etches and Val Napoleon.
Although in -favour,- Cooper
and Chapman added that would
only approve the installation if
health ministry officials took
responsibility for the initiative,

” the Fleming house.

Cory Fleming. The occasion was the

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The final vote settling the
condom question came after an

éarlier motion. was passed
‘unanimously

endorsing
abstinence and expansion of the
district's family life curriculum.
Asit became clear the majori-
ty of trustees would vote against
condoms, Etches and Chapman
made failed attempts to amend.
the motion or put off the

~ debate. ,
and. Hazelton trustees Dr. Dun-. .

Pousette: said ‘to yote in.
favour of condom machines.
would be teaching students the
wrong message. “We need, to
teach responsibility and we have
to ensure that we don’t give:a
wrong message,’? he said.

“We would be giving them
totally the wrong message,’’
Hislop added. —

Noting the failure rate of con-
doms, Braid warned of the con-
sequences if.a student caught
AIDS because a condom pro-
vided by the schcol failed::En-
couraging abstinence, he said, is
the best solution.

“We have programs in the
schools to help our children say
no to drugs and alcohol,’’ Braid
said, “I think we should help
them say no to sex. We should
help them understand this is

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 20, 1990 — Page A Aa

‘School board rejects condom machines —

soinething they don’t have to be
involved in.” .
“] simply do not believe it is

’ the mandate of the schoo! board

to make that decision,’ added
Daniels. ‘‘] believe it is the man-
date of the health ministry, I
simply don’t believe that con-
*doms are either safe enough or
worthwhile enough to put in our
schools.” .

Cooper, speaking in favour
of condom - machines, cited
statistics presented by Skeena
health unit medical health of-
ficer David Bowering indicating
there are twice the number of

teen mothers here as in the rest:

of the province.

“Although it is not a perfect
solution, it is one way of help-
ing,”’ she said. “I don’t believe
children who are taught morally
how to look after themselves
will be affected by condoms in
washrooms, If our children are
to make responsible choices, we
have to educate them at all
levels,””

But Cooper pointed to the in-
creased burden of providing
health-related services which
has been placed on the school
board, She said she would sup-
port the installation of the

Edna Cooper

machines only if the health
tinistry wanted them put in
and was willing to pay for them.

Chapman took a similar posi-

tion. ‘“‘What is the job of a
public school system?’ she ask-
ed. “I would question whether
that is part of the mandate of
the school system. We are the
educators not ‘the prescribers.”’

Etches, a medical doctor’ at
Wrinch Memorial. Hospital -in
Hazelton, - maintained. his posi-

_tion in favour of the machines.

“In my experience dealing
with high school students, it
might be a smali step in reduc-
ing the numbers of unwanted
pregnancies and sexually
transmitted diseases.”

Recycling class gathers
paper for trip to south

TERRACE -— A recycling pro-
gram that started in a local
science classroom and has
spread across the city will send
its first shipment of white paper

to Vancouver on Monday,

. Students are conducting their
final collection push this week
before the boxes they've filled
are loaded on a truck, Skeena
Jr. Secondary teacher Dan

. Houpt said last week.

Safeway: manager Eric
Johansen offered to let the
students use free of charge an
empty Safeway truck, on which
they hope to pile nearly ametric
tonne of collected white paper.

"Houpt’s ¢ clas ‘bas ‘been ' fgaccep-'
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The project also Prompted the
Terrace District Teachers’
Association to set up a joint
committee with the school
board to coordinate further
recycling programs next year.

“It’s really incredible how
this has grown,” said Houpt,
who is leaving Terrace to return
to university, “People say if the
schools can do it, so can we,”

An expanded version of the
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he added. °

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do this city-wide if there’s so-
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of tonnes if it we did it district
wide.”

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success to the enthusiasm of
students at Skeena.

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_ that’s built ‘up, over this, Lye. .

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