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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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