HIV scare puts Mo. school in uncertain territory

[RICHARD]

WHat are they smoking in Missouri?

There are specific means of transmission in order to spread/get AIDS.

50 people?

Instead of testing for the disease the school district should have programs going for sex ed and drug education. UNLESS these kids were exposed to that person's bodily fluids-and you really have to work at that-in a very intimate way, there probabkly is nothing to worry about.

Of course, everyone will be screaming bloody murder until answers are found.

Kids can be effing cruel to each other in circumstances like this. I have to laugh at the refusal of the football team to play at the school. Everyone knows that the quarterback is doing something evil right before he takes the snap.

Typical uninformed, ignorant small town hysteria. The morons in this town will remember this as the "AIDS scare of '08". Nothing more.

And no, you cannot pass it around by breathing the same air in the room as a person that is infected.

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THe more I think about it the more I want to scream.

I wonder what high risk behavior they are talking about? Sharing the bus?

And the poor 50 kids, unless they were heavy into some 'things' they shouldn't worry.


But maybe that is what some politicians are warning us about when they slam the mid west?

[Sirrahsim]

This whole thing is crazy. How on earth could *50* kids become exposed???

As for the football team cancelling, I get that. I personally would not let my children play a contact sport against someone that I knew/suspected of being infected with HIV. Accidents happen, football players bleed, in a lot of cases the trainers don't even change gloves before mopping bloody noses or swabbing at scrapes. Transmission of the virus in this way is not very likely but it is not a chance I would be willing to take.

[sparks19]

This whole thing is crazy. How on earth could *50* kids become exposed???

As for the football team cancelling, I get that. I personally would not let my children play a contact sport against someone that I knew/suspected of being infected with HIV. Accidents happen, football players bleed, in a lot of cases the trainers don't even change gloves before mopping bloody noses or swabbing at scrapes. Transmission of the virus in this way is not very likely but it is not a chance I would be willing to take.

Exactly... something is rotten in Denmark.

I hope there are some updates on this as things unfold.

[jennielynn1970]

I teach in middle school. You'd be surprised at the amount of kids in 7th and 8th grade that are seriously, sexually active. And how many of these kids are "dating" then ditching, and then dating another? We've got pregnant 7th and 8th graders, and I'm sure there's 6th graders doing the same thing. It's a sad commentary on kids these days, and the lack of involvement by family, not knowing what their kids are doing (or if they know, do they not care??).

What's the legal age of consent? Yeah, I know. What are guidance counselors doing about it? Nada. Not in my school. You can tell a counselor that an underage kid is having sex, they don't give a crap. It's sad. Our one guidance counselor was unmarried, pregnant, and was having little get togethers in the guidance office with the 8th grade pregnant girls. Sweet, huh??

It's sad to say, but the possibility of 50 kids being sexually active and exposing others, it's a probability. The fact that they're not using protection (if it's through intercourse), is just sad.

Many kids these days do not consider other sexual activity to actually be sex, and can pass HIV that way.

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The behavior and the attitudes of some of the administration and counselors in my school totally disgust me(not sure how many other of our schools in our district are this way).