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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
And I think a teen could expect accommodations in her work place.
But the student can return and retake the classes whenever she wants to. And to me that make a difference.
Pregnancy is pretty controllable is you want it to be and certainly no high school student has to have sex. (would you provide home teachers to students who had elective surgery during the year during the school year too? Say a 16 year old schedules her cosmetic surgery for October? I don't mean that those are really equivalent, but maternity leave for teens isn't the same as emergency surgery or cancer.)
I don't think we've hit the point as a society at which we treat the decision to have a baby in high school like we treat the same decision by adult women.
I don't think the rest of us should bear increased cost for education when the student already has the option of repeating the class the next year at no cost to her.
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We all know that young teens can choose not to have sex. We hope the adults they look to teach them that. The fact is, it does not happen and young teens thing it is okay for them to have sex for whatever reason. Cause prevention is failing. Because the baby is coming whether we like it or not.
I do think there should be some repercussions for a young woman AND man who have a baby together, period. I do not know what those are, but there should be.
The reasons why the schools probably will not allow students to repeat or retake classes is because it is costly to remediate.