Knew better than what? Are you suggesting “blue balls” aren’t real?
You listed my every reason at that age. I had no clue. I knew about sex and I knew sex could lead to babies. I just had absolutely no sense of responsibility for my own body. I was just so desperate to get myself a boyfriend and I thought that was the way to do it. It seemed to work for a while anyway.
It sure wasn’t because I wanted to get off or even feel that tingle. I just wanted to be given attention. And I feel like this is a lot of the reason behind these girls. Not EVERY girl obviously. But working with some of these girls over the years, something really touches me about how vulnerable they are and how desperate they are for attention. And they’re so poor around here having a baby can be a step up.
Or rather it can seem like a step up.
Just brilliant Manda JO. 
Anal. Because I care about my future.
The OP talks about 86 pregnant teens, which isn’t the same as 86% unless the school has exactly 100 female students.
In fact, one of the linked articles says:
What’s blue balls?
Yeah, sounds like my friends who started that early. They were pretty much trying to buy love/attention with pussy. One of them lost her virginity to the guy who ate flies for money, who she’d never been on a date with, on a hotel bathroom floor full of sand. She to this day doesn’t know for sure if he used a condom or not; she didn’t hear him put one on and was utterly horrified at the notion that she could have touched his penis and made sure. Because she didn’t know him well enough for that.
I shit you not. I couldn’t even begin to make this happy horseshit up.
Sex ed, as such, just isn’t enough.
I stand corrected. Somehow I thought it was 86% in one particular school.
Excellent post Manda JO!!! Almost exactly like the mentally retarded kids I’ve known who think that girls HAVE to be boy crazy and be “boyfriend” “girlfriend” even though they actually really don’t have a CLUE about sophisicated romantic relationships.
What do you have in mind? Medals? I’m thinking trophies, like in little league.
No I’m suggesting it’s not my responsibility to ease a teenage boy’s case of blue balls.
I have never heard of those people. I don’t have a TV so I miss out on a lot when it comes to celebrities.
Why is he smiling?
The school should start a good day care program, possibly with the mothers and fathers taking turns being excused from class, celebrate motherhood, fatherhood and childhood and forget this just say no stuff.
How do you get hold of those fathers? And does this reduce the rate of high-school pregnancy?
IME the fathers of many of the babies will not be at the school. Some will attend other schools (and some in this school will have babies with women at other schools) and quite a few will not attend school. Some will be drop outs and not a few will be older: 19-25.
If the fathers want to participate in loving and raising their child they are welcome. I at first left out celebrate fatherhood in my post, but thought it should be added.
It is not intended to reduce the rate of high school pregnancies per se, but to challenge the current system that is failing us, including just say no abstinence programs , birth control, with it’s failures, the stigma of secret abortion and the pressure to abort out of shame and fear and the IMHO false notion that a baby will close doors for a teen. It also challenges the current educational system, with it’s rules to hold back young adults to the level as children far too long, and not recognizing their adult needs, including sex and children as part of their very being.
This represents a great educational opportunity far better then (insert subject such as ‘algebra’ here) does for the majority of students. We all have been in school saying when will I ever need (insert subject here) in real life. And for most of us we will never need to know, or put into use (insert things like ‘law of cosines’ here). Raising a community of children from infancy on is real life, and for mothers (and fathers who step forward) it is a valuable life skill, arguably the single most important one in all humanity, and for the most part schools teach how to avoid it.
When someone gets to highschool they should have a basic understanding of core subjects and be able to start selecting their life path. It is not needed for all to master every high school subject, we are a community of people, each with different strengths and weaknesses and made to draw on each other, to come together as a community, so on rare occasion when you need to use the law of cosigns your neighbor would be the one who can help you.
Raising children in a community that the school children can draw upon is a potentially great benefit and resource to the mothers and babies.