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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what's NOT a myth? TC has an on-site day care for apprize 100 babies / toddlers for HS parents, they drop their kiddos and scoot on to school.  It sends the wrong message, IMHO, that it's okay to have children that early.  That's the population that is closer to jail than Yale[/quote]
Gosh, you're right.  Making it easier for teenage parents to stay in school and finish their high school education is a terrible idea and definitely pushes them toward the jail path.  We should just give them some welfare forms and wish them well.  I bet every single one of them was like, "Nah, don't bother with a condom, we can just drop them off at daycare before homeroom!" and have not had their lives impacted at all by being young parents.  They need to learn young that once you make a mistake, that is the end of your life and paths to ameliorate the situation should be cut off at every path.  Have you called TC to set them straight so they can start dismantling this abomination?[/quote]

+1. BTW, Arlington has an entire school dedicated to this as well...It's not as rare or strange as you are making it out to be.[/quote]

Fairfax County has an alternative high school near Mt. Vernon off of route 1 for this purpose as well.  It is for students who otherwise would not be able to graduate at a regular high school at a regular schedule because of pregnancy, being a teen parent, having no family/ living on their own, or having to work (yes, there are actually teenagers who have to work a job to survive, if they don't work they don't eat, so how can they go to school during regular hours)?  They have day and evening classes.  These kind of services and schools are super important, you either pay now to help these children grown into self sufficient adults, or we all pay when they can't graduate, can't get a diploma, can't financially support themselves later in life.  Just because TCW has a daycare children of students has nothing to do with the caliber of education.  I guarantee you teens of all schools are having sex.  Wake up. [/quote]

Right.  But FCPS has one small alternative high school  (200 kids total) and 20 traditional high schools.  Where as ACPS has 1 alternative high school that some traditional high school students also alttend. [/quote]

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