“Dude, I knew this modeling thing would work out!”
So your notion is that children should be recognized as a basic need of high-school students?
Unless, of course, she was excused from class to tend her baby.
It’s a human reality, WTF should school be preparing the children/young audults for if not that ![]()
Exactly my point, not everyone needs to know the law of cosigns, and for the occasion it arises someone will know it. For most of humanity raising a child was more critical then the law of cosigns.
But I’m sure that the great fear that this bit of human knowledge will pass into antiquity and go the way of greek fire if schools don’t teach it to every child is just a fear, and some people will have a passion for higher mathematics and will carry the legacy of trigonometry on.
This last part is part of the mentoring process, which is part of child raising and the natural way of human learning according to their passions ![]()
Professor kanicbird, do you mind if I sit near the door? You’re making me uncomfortable…
They’re from a popular show on MTV called 16 and Pregnant and the spin-off Teen Mom. While some would say that it does a good job depicting the real lives of pregnant teens (crappy editing aside, they do show the toll a girls’ pregnancy takes on relationships with the future father and their family, finances, the regret, etc.) a good portion of teen viewers are just going to see pregnancy = OMG on MTV!! And now on the cover of tabloids (and assumed to be, as you put it, celebrities by anyone who glances at them), for literally nothing other than being unfortunate enough to get pregnant at 16.
I don’t suppose anyone is interested in an update?
It appears that not only does the world now think we have no OB/GYNs in our county (in the city known for St. Jude and LeBonheur children’s hospitals), that school with such a high amount of pregnant teens has such a high rate because they have a city-wide program FOR pregnant teens.
http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Memphis-Superintendent-Tackles-Teen-Pregnancy/yauSSoNxsEC-5ueXgD4EVg.cspx?rss=59
MEMPHIS, TN – Are 90 students at one Memphis high school pregnant? The superintendent of Memphis City Schools says “no.”
“There are not 90 children who are pregnant right now in Frayser High School,” Superintendent Kriner Cash said during a news conference Tuesday. He said the question has dogged him since last week, when reports surfaced that 90 students at Frayser High School are pregnant, or have had a child.
“What I’ve said is that there are a number of girls at different stages of either having a child already or two, and a relatively smaller number who may be pregnant at a given time,” Cash explained.
He said that number could be as high as 90, since Frayser High offers a program for teen mothers that attracts families.
“There were 75 last year, so there could be 90 this year, particularly with either new entrants, new people coming in to be part of this program,” Cash said, describing the program as similar to school “magnet programs” for the sciences or arts. “Mothers and families are choosing Frayser because of the support they get from that program."
He said 30 to 35 students have transferred to Frayser High just for that program, and he gave the details at that news conference with Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell at his side as he explained the programs the district has put in place. Several community and school leaders joined the group.
It makes me wonder if our own loser superintendent or our even more annoying mayor didn’t concoct this story themselves to stimulate funds for this No Baby program.
It would not surprise me in the least.
This is the article about the televised claim that we have no OB/GYNs in Memphis. No, even Shelby County itself:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/jan/19/memphis-mayor-wharton-today-show-we-do-have-obgyns/
Here’s a story from a local TV station which suggests the program may be largely imaginary. Be warned, it’s a Fox station:
Once they get electricity and indoor plumbing, the OBGYNs will show up.