Reply to 6 Baltimore public schools where not a single student tested "proficient"

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "6 Baltimore public schools where not a single student tested "proficient" "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous[b]]Just make it easier to get birth control period. [/b]

I went with a friend from the neighborhood to get the pill, my mother (we were middle class) got it for me. Her mother, not so much. Her mother had her at 16/17 and her grandmother had her mother at 14!  She didn't want to be that. They wouldn't give it to her without parent there.

She got pregnant a few years later and I went to college. [/quote]

They don't want to be on birth control!!   Most of these girls get pregnant on purpose. 
I worked as an RN in ob/gyn clinics in Baltimore for year (at Johns Hopkins Bayview, Harbor Hospital and Mercy Medical Center).  
I love working with this population but no, they're not getting pregnant because of a failure or lack of birth control. 
The vast majority of it is purposeful---the problem is MUCH bigger than a birth control access one (i.e. how can we change their entire world view so that they have bigger goals than having a baby at 15?)[/quote]

taught HS for many years in very challenging schools

Girls have babies b/c they 1) think they're cute (until they realize the responsibility) and 2) want a purpose in life.

very sad all around

agree - BC is available!  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics