Maine Middle School to Consider Alternate Plan for Contraceptives

A new plan has been proposed for students at King Middle School regarding the recent decision to make contraceptives available to students at the school without parental permission. According to sources, “the School Committee will consider setting a student minimum age and letting parents choose to opt out.”

Benjamin Meiklejohn, one of the two dissenters in the original vote, has offered up a proposed resolution that would seek to give parents the power to keep their children from participating in the new plan. Meiklejohn’s proposal was submitted on Monday and will be considered by the committee Nov. 7.

At least two members of the school committee indicated they had not been swayed by the recent public firestorm and would not be in favor of a change.