What I don't get is, everyone always says that teen moms throw their lives away...but if they try to continue their education while pregnant...they get thrown out of school....That is so stupid, and I mean, sure maybe the mothers should have been more careful, but no one has the place to say who can or cannot go to their school, unless it's a private school, or if the person has been expelled...

What about females who were raped?

Ah, the round belly brings up a quirky little point: What if you just look preggers? Cuz, well, I know a couple of kids at my school, who look a little suspicious, girls and guys, should they have to go too?

Aren't we all entitled to a free education, whether or not we have a round belly?


Love, Jenny

One of my aunts believes that pregnant girls should have to leave school. She seems to feel that the presence of pregnant girls "encourages" other girls to have sex. The idea of that never made any sense to me. Every time I see a pregnant girl in my school, I am the opposite of encouraged, most definately. I also have to agree with bextherex, pregnant girls should be allowed to finish their high school education for the good of their child. It is extremely difficult to make enough money to support a child while holding a job that doesn't require a high school education. It's hard enough to get decent pay without a college education, so just imagine the small income of someone who didn't finish high school. The people who think that pregnant girls should have to leave school are the same people who look down on single mothers who have to live in substandard housing and can hardly decently dress their children. My aunt is the type of person who would be the first one to see a young, single mother with a poorly dressed child and call her "trash" without even thinking that maybe, with a high school education, this woman would be better off. It's also unfair for the school system to punish a pregnant girl while doing nothing to male involved in the situation. I don't know of any schools in my area that have a policy such as the one mentioned, but I'd be interested to know where this is happening.

thats wrong. they cant force anyone to be abstinant, that is the person's choice if they want to have sex and risk getting themselves or the girl pregnant. and if the girl gets pregnant, there is no way any administrators can deny her an education while she is pregnant. i hope if this happens to anyone, they sue the school board. they'll win.

That's ridiculous! Surely if a girl is pregnant, and will soon have another life to provide for, her education is doubly important! If she is dedicated enough to carry on going to school despite the physical discomfort pregnancy entails, then she should be congratulated, not kicked out. I guess if it risks the health of the baby that would be a legitimate reason to ask her to stay home, but people go to work right up to the late stages of pregnancy, long after they 'show'. I don't know that I approve of teenage pregnancy but I think that those it happens to should be supported because it's a hard enough thing to go through so young. There is just as much of a right to education whether the school sees approves or not, and it is totally hypocritical to punish the girl involved, but not the boy who had just as much of a part in it.

I think that's relly wrong, and it also sounds pretty illegal, too. Everyone is required by law to be given an education, this includes pregnant girls. Their pregnancy doesn't disturb classes unless it is made into a bigger deal than it is. This rule sounds to me like cinservative administrators trying too hard to control their student population, and it also seems constitutionally and morally wrong.

They shouldn't be able to deny(I think that's how you spell it)a girl's rights to education. If they are willing to adapt that policy, I think there should be another one entitled,"You do it, you loose it", just for the guy that denied that girl her right to education.

I think it wrong, I mean I know the girls shouldn't have "gave up the boots" but sometimes it could be her first time and she could have been "experimenting". Look the dudes that laid up with the girls don't get any grief except for "baby mama drama" and they get to finish school to get their eduaction- hello, They're half the reason, "it takes two to tango" (right?)!

I go both ways. But I mainly think it's stupid. it's a girl's chioce to have sex or not. but the school board shouldn'r force pregnant girls to stay home just because they "show". But at the same time, I can imagine it's enough stress being pregnant, and it's even more stress going to school.

Isn't that illegal? I mean, not that I'm really educated about this sort of thing, but from everything I've heard and read there is a set of laws protecting teenage mothers so that they can't be discriminated against at public schools or the places they work. Tell me if I'm totally misguided here, though.

That's strictly against our school district policy.
Stuff like that really ticks me off. Just because a girl is pregnant doesn't mean her education should have to suffer.
This is very clearly discrimination and should be fought, as it is the right of the girl to get an education, and the school is preventing her from it.

That is horrid. Teenage girls are judged as being ****s or whores just because of being pregnant. It is utterly ridiculous. I think if a pregnant teenager wants to stay in school and get an education, and she feels she needs to, then the school should let her stay.

Yours,
Solemn