Conservative Donnybrook

Can you dig this scene? 

The final notes of “Hey Joe” echo across the farmland where 30,000 to 40,000 tripping and tripped out hippies have gathered. With these notes, the Woodstock Festival has come to an end. The gathered masses begin to head for home. One can imagine that a large proportion of them probably hitched a ride to New York in the first place and intended to do the same on their return.But picture the scene of thousands of tripped out hippies lining the roadways surrounding Max Yasgur’s pasture all with their thumbs stuck out, hoping for a ride. It must have looked like a scene from the Night of the Living Dead. I think any normal motorist would have locked the doors and pushed down a bit on the accelerator to discouorage would-be riders. Perhaps that’s how so many hippies settled in the area, perhaps not. But, the entire New England area is loaded with aging hippies who settled in the area and eventually joined the school boards. One such place is Portland, Maine. 

On October 17, the school board of Portland, Maine voted to make birth control pills available to girls at a local middle school. Just so we remember, middle school was the school you attended when you were between the ages of 11 and 13.  While parents will have to consent to their children’s use of the school health center, any treatment that is given to the student is confidential even from the child’s parents. So parents will never be informed that the school nurse has put their little darling on the pill. And what parent would deny the facilities of the school health center to their children on the chance that some sort of an emergency would arise while the child is at school? It would be irresponsible parenting to do that. But, so would allowing your 11 year-old daughter to start taking the pill and having sexual intercourse.
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