To the editor:

Our local school board and health department have proposed their approach to dealing with sexually active students in our high schools. I want to address my response to this approach to parents or a parent and possibly a high schooler who can relate to my experience as a high school kid where there were similar temptations. For example, three of the other boys on the block where I lived did engage in premarital sex. The girls became pregnant and the couples ended up getting married. The marriages didn’t last; one made it longer that the other two but it ended with four children before the divorce came.

I grew up in a lower middle class blue collar neighborhood. At 12 years old I became a Christian. My interest in girls was minimal. I was much more interested in sports. I was shy and naive but also innocent in my attitude toward girls. I just knew that what some of the other boys were doing in high school was wrong. When I did start to date as a junior until the time I was married after graduation from college, I made the choice to not violate my Christian beliefs.

So what is the point? Each person must make a choice as to what they want to do. Sounds too simple. Not for me and my wife of now almost 60 years.