HIV scare puts Mo. school in uncertain territory

[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).