May 31, 1991

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NV District 44 School Board decides
against installing condom machines

CONDOM MACKIE

Swill

not be installed in public

secondary schools in North Vancouver next September, the
North Vancouver District 44 Schoot Board decided Tues-

day.

Four board
the motion

decisive vote,
members — defeated
proposed by Trustee Rev. Roy
Dungey and seconded by Trustee
Patricia, Peal that would hive
seen condom-dispensing machines
installed im all girls’ and boys’
washrooms at all public secondary
schools.

In a

By Patrick Raynard

Contributing Vie riter

Phe decision ends half a vear of
often emotional debate that saw
trustees deluged with aver 400. let-
More than the Distric: 44
School Board bas ever received on

ters om

any one issue in its history — and
generated a public meeting on
May 7 that was attended bys hun-
dreds of parents, students, clergy
and health pracutioners. Most ol
those who spoke at the meeting
were anposed to the machines be-
ing tnstaHed in schools.

Tuesday's vate follows the same
decision by the West Vancouver
Distuict 45 School Board on April
& meaning that ail Nerth Shore
secondary schools wilh remain free
af the machines during the bv.
92 school sear.

North Vancouver School Board
chairman Marg Jessup, who voted
against the condom machines, said
she wis ‘not surprised’’ by Tues-
day's outcome.

Trustee Don Bell led the debate
against condoms by saying that
the board had a duty to provide a
moral balance against Uie images
of violence and sex that dominate
the cultural and social environ-
ment of today’s youth,

“And they can eget
anywhere thes want’
reminded his colleagues.

condoms
Bell

“foam also impressed bs the
statistics from) othe USA. In
school districts where sex educa-

stressed
erties Of
unt

aie

tion programs hate
abstinence and the
saving no) the mut

wadted prostancrgs

ae oait

significanuy lower.

Trustee Richard Walton, while
admitting that his was a ‘fence-
sitting position,’’ also opposed the
motion, saying it was up to the
parent councils of individual
schocls to make such a decision.

“The board does not have the
tight to arbitrarily mandate this
issue.”

Board member Chief Philip Joc
opposed condoms on the grounds

that the issue was none of the
board’s business.
“The trustees’ position is to

provide a better education, and
the installation Of these machines
is not the best educational
sion f could make.”
Dunges, after

dees
preposine bits

See Priest pau &

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