It’s Not About Education, It’s About Birth Control.

March 10, 2010

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That seems to the be the thought behind why some educators are worried about closing Marshall High School under the new plan by the Portland Public Schools Superintendent.

PPS hasn’t closed a school since the 80’s when several schools were closed (including mine). It was painful, but as an adult, understandable. Now we read here in WW that some of the  misgivings of closing the school are due to the possible loss of the “health” clinic.

…right now the county has school-based health centers at Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson, Marshall, Madison and Roosevelt high schools.
Closure of any of those schools would greatly affect the county’s clinics, which provide students with free physical exams and sports physicals, prescriptions, as well as services for mental health and birth control. Each county clinic on a high-school campus has medical exam rooms and counseling rooms.

Tell ’em where you saw it. Http://www.victoriataft.com