When I worked in a small NE Ohio town in the early 1970s some of the parents were truly shocked to find out that there was a drug problem in the school there. Some of them had moved there to get away from the drug problems in the Cleveland schools, and here it was!

Golly. The old-time residents weren't shocked. They had figured it was just a matter of time before what happened in the "big city" made its way to the small town 30 miles away.

I don't know of a single town anywhere in the US where drugs aren't available to school children, even down to the elementary level.

Sex has always been with us, and as my grandmother said, "When they're ready, they will want to. All you can do is try to train them not to until they're old enough to handle it." She'd know -- she was 17 when her first child, my father, was born after four months of marriage.