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Originally posted by tld221
yeah, middle school students?! thats nasty. but face it, this is happening. and im gonna give props to NYCBOE. they shouldve been sending work home to the new mothers so they can keep up. now, if the mother decides she doesnt want to, then that's where u cut the rope.
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I agree tld!
It's a great idea to send work home with the mothers so that they can keep up. I have had a few experiences with teen mothers and for the most part, they have to just miss classes the 9th month or so and for some time after the baby is born. That's problematic not only b/c she is missing instruction but in many cases, if she exceeds the number of days out of school for the school year, she will not be able to move on and will have to repeat the grade.
We don't want to encourage teenage pregnancy but I think that this program is good in that it at least allows the mother an opportunity to miss classes and presumably makeup the work. The alternative that I have also seen is the young women going back to school in two weeks! And, of course, this is not very
healthy for the mother.
I would add that the schools should take a *pro*active stance as opposed to *re*active and consider giving the high schoolers information on adoption, abortion, and birth control, and sexually-transmitted diseases and the way that HIV/AIDS is ravaging our community (and is even becoming widespread for AA teens in high school - we have one high school in Chicago that has a relatively high HIV/AIDS percentage - we have got to get the word out to our youth as well as adults). I say all of this about HIV/AIDS because our youth are obviously exposing themselves to sexually-transmitted diseases if we have even one teen pregnancy.
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