TC Williams in USA Today

[Anonymous]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-04-03/teen-pregnancy-birth-control-schools/53979070/1


As a matter of public policy, I can support this, but I don't want my own kids in this environment.

[Anonymous]

What environment? An environment where there are significantly fewer teen pregnancies? Make no mistake, kids at other high schools are having just as much sex as the ones at this school, but they have resources available to them that make it easier to get access to birth control. All this does is level the playing field.

[Anonymous]

Alexandria City is one of the smallest localities in the area yet it has the highest teenage pregnancy rate.

[Anonymous]

I agree with 9:35. The kids I went to college with who had gone to the most elite prep schools were the ones that were the most sexually experienced. They were just rich/savvy enough to be using birth control.

[Anonymous]

I think a "rate" is based on a percentage of the student population, not overall number genius. So being biggest, smallest, middle really has no effect.

[Anonymous]

This is awesome. Not awesome that it's necessary, but I am glad to see they're at least trying to do something. Not just for pregnancy, but to give the kids basic medical attention too.

If they can sustain that kind of drop in the number of pregnancies (from 50 two years ago to 35 last year and on pace for 30 this year)-that's pretty impressive. A 40% drop in 2 years.

I mean, yeah, 30 pregnancies in 2247 students is still a lot, but assuming half the student population is female, that's a rate of about 27 pregnancies per 1000 females which is way below the rate for Alexandria (~41 per 1000).

[Anonymous]

I went to TC- back then we did see teen pregnancies but I also heard a lot of abortions.. Sex was very common- it was hard being in that environment..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to TC- back then we did see teen pregnancies but I also heard a lot of abortions.. Sex was very common- it was hard being in that environment..

Welcome to high school.