QUOTE (kleahey @ Sep 30 2008, 07:36 PM)

I'm sorry about your friend. May I ask if they teach sex ed. in your school? It was in the 5th grade curriculum when I was in MD. They tell kids to just say no, but they don't always tell them what to do when they do actually get pregnant.
I have taught too many children who have children. I had a senior who would come in with her 3 year old son 5 minutes before the end of the day, complete her work, turn off my light and close my door. She had to do that b/c her parents were both in prison and she had no one to watch the baby. She got her degree and she has a full time job and part time college. Some make it while some live off the system (govt.).
No they don't. The school claims they don't have the efficient funds to do that. (Funny though considering they just hired
another computer teacher, and bought a whole new lab of computers $1000) I guess you can call our child development class is kinda sex-ed though. She talks about STD's and whatnot (for like 3 months though and we go to her class every other day)and shows up pictures of genitals with STD's (probably to scare us into abstinence and let me tell you, it has worked I couldn't eat without gagging for a hot minute)
I'm glad to hear about the girl with the child getting her education. I just hope my friends can do the same. I know her parents will offer her some help, and the baby's father is stepping up (thank god) but I'm in such shock, like I still don't believe it. She had the ultrasound today though so she has proof. Alot of the time when students are pregnant they get transferred into one of those special school that will babysit the baby while they're in class. They can't force the girls to do that though, so we still have alot of girls with baby's though. The sad thing is their situations go alot like this. My friend (boy) had been dating this girl for over a year, she was a virgin and wasn't ready to have sex. Eventually he pressured her into it.... She's due on thanksgiving and he's moved on to other girls. As soon as he got what he wanted he took off. Needless to say I was pissed at him, but he's got a job and he talks about the baby all the time, but it still saddens me. He's 16. The youngest girl that I know who was pregnant was 13. She miscarried though
I hope that girl get's it together and be like the girl you mentioned above. She's worked to hard to fall back now.