Monthly Archives: August 2010

The Let’s Talk Series #8 – Condoms for elementary students?!

Heather O’Neill, coordinator for Straight Up’s Let’s Talk program, presents a series of helpful posts, resources, and articles on a regular basis for the Straight Up blog. The idea of handing out condoms to students is already controversial.  Heck, the idea of teaching about condoms is controversial in some areas.  But for some really inspired [...]

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Oobie-Doobie and Onward…

The first time I got drunk, I had no idea what I was doing.  I was 14, out with friends who were much older, and ready to rebel.  As I had been having regular fights with my stepfather at home (who raged at me while I wasn’t allowed to even slightly raise my voice to [...]

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Eyewitness

This post was written by a high school student during Straight Up’s 2010 Leadership Conference, copresented by Ventura Unified School District. I think drinking and driving is stupid to say the least, as well as underage drinking. My family has always been close. Alcoholism does run in my family. In 2002, my brother was in [...]

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