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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
I'm from a WI high school that could pretty much be GBN. At my HS, once a girl was preggers, she would voluntarily leave school as soon as the bun began rising, or her parents would pull her out in shame. It was VERY frowned upon. This doesn't mean sex wasn't going on - it was protected, or you got an abortion.
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Once again with the private school... I agree, at my school it was very frowned upon to be pregnant and still in high school (a CATHOLIC one at that) but my school valued education more than anything and girls were encouraged to continue school until the day they gave birth and then after as well. Not to say that the school supported premarital sex - they absolutely didn't - but education was valued and more important than "saving face" or anything like that.
At my high school graduation we wear pure white formal gowns with white elbow length gloves (its a very beautiful ceremony actually) well girls who had been pregnant or girls who had premarital sex were "supposed" to wear off-white dresses instead. It was on the honor system though - and come on, you'd stick out like a sore thumb so no one did it!