The Editor, Sir:

Should we not as a society congratulate Lawman Lynch, president of the Kingston and St. Andrew Action Forum Youth organisation, for recommending the issuing of condoms in school? After all, as a society we have lost our moral compass and everything and anything goes.

But let us not stop at condoms. Let's give them cards because they are gambling; let's give them music CDs with the latest Kartel because they are listening; let's give them cigarettes because they are smoking. And if we are going to give 16-year-olds condoms because they are having sex, one of my students suggests also giving 12-year-olds condoms too because they are also having sex. Isn't it better to have them practising from an early age and/or being pregnant than abstaining. Remember, abstinence is for losers, sissies and virgins.

Big 'poppyshow'?

Let us as a society leave parents, the family, the Church and other agents of socialisation unaccountable because our children are having or want to have sex. After all, sex is big business. The wonderful pictures of young girls and boys having sex on tapes, and the wonderful pictures of teenage girls with enlarged bellies are reminders of our civil society. Let us put aside our moral aesthetics and values to satisfy sex-craved teenagers' penchant for sex. Let us make a mockery of our laws and fundamental principles that have weaved this society together. Let us turn these things on their heads and turn them into one big 'poppyshow'.

Why not make Lawman PM? We need someone who makes decisions based on demand (especially from children). We need someone who does not know that one function of any society is to protect children, even from themselves. We need someone who, instead of handing over sex tapes to the relevant authorities such as the police, keeps it to himself. We need some who equates sex education in schools to mean the issuing of condoms.

I guess he took a lesson out of the layman's book who believes that because I can drive, I don't (necessarily need) a licence. Because I can fix a car, I am a mechanic. Because I am having sex as a child, I need a condom. Provide them with this licence, and then what next? Is this a moral compass or societal madness?

I am, etc.,

ROBIN CLARKE

clarkerobin2002@yahoo.com

Teacher at Binns' College & Hutton's Education Unit