ABSOLUTELY NOT....You do not need a prescription to buy the testing kit. There are no age requirements to buy a kit.

I certainly don't want those additional costs added onto my annual school taxes.

No it should be only be done by license Doctor.
The schools should not be getting into something that they can and will be liable for.
It will open the door for all kinds of law suits.

I must have missed the problem statement but it does not sound to me like an educational function.

19 kids preg. how many hundreds more had abortions and diseases? yuck!

port chester is gross.

I Think This Is A Very Good Idea, Beacause Kids Can Feel More Confertable With The School

Jose GG, kids are in school to learn how to spell "comfortable", proper capitalization, and punctuation.

Do you really want to have school officials counseling your teenage daughter on her pregnancy?

I can recognize that schools feel somewhat responsible for the sexual behavior of their charges. However, it seems to me that giving out pregnancy tests isthe wrong intervention done too late. Much better to resist the pregnancy early than to detect it late. It would be far more appropriate to give out contraceptives than pregnancy tests. Pregnancy will out in any case.

However, I think that the schools are not choosing based upon effectiveness but on what they think will produce the least community resistance.

This thread suggests the difficulty of their decision.