http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,3245210.story
"About 90 students at a Memphis High School are either pregnant, or have been recently.
The startling news was confirmed by a high ranking city official and comes as the community plans to roll out a new initiative to help combat the problem.
However, one Frayser High School graduate says teen pregnancy is not a new problem for the school.
"When we would come back from summer break, there would be a thousand people pregnant. We were like, what's going on?" joked Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004.
"There were a whole lot of bellies. You had to watch out so you didn't bump into them. Being 2011, I thought a lot of them would have thought this is not the right way to go, having babies during school time," she added.
Memphis' teen pregnancy rate stands at between 15 and 20 percent, almost twice the national average."
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I really hope this isn't one of those "get pregnant because its cool" issues that they made a
Lifetime movie about. I'm sure the school doesn't offer Sex Ed..I remember in high school they wouldn't allow it because the parents thought it would give off the message of it being 'ok' to have sex. Looks like they're getting that else where...
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