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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What rock have you been under? Teenagers have sex; some have abortions, some have the baby. This is nothing new.

OP here. I've definitely seen the stats on teen pregnancy, but 8th grade seems SO young. I'm just wondering how common this is in the everyday. I went to Catholic school growing up and we never had pregnant kids in school. Seriously ... Does that answer what rock I was living under?

What public elementary school has 8th graders?

That is because pregnant Catholic girls get sent away because of "emotional problems".. lol!

Pregnant students are encouraged to go to alternative schools because it is thought that pregnant, like suicide, is contagious among teens. Not in the literal sense, of course. However, if one gets pregnant and shows the thought is that others will too.

8th graders are 13. That's not entirely shocking knowing that many 14 year olds were pregnant when I was graduating 10 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:I had a conversation with a kid from Churchill about this. He mentioned that a friend went to Gaithersburg and that they had a daycare/nursery in the school for the children of students.

I asked him why Churchill didn't have such a facility and he said, "we are smart enough to use condoms or to pull out".

Well he's a boy, so he hardly has the inside connection. More like "we abort our mistakes".

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Anonymous wrote:I had a kid in my 8th grade class get pregnant 18 years ago.....had the kid, went on to have another while in 10th grade. She is now 32 and has an 18 year old.

So the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Hmmm..it would help if you were good at reading comprehension before your snark. Where does the pp say that the teenage Mom became a grandmother?

Anonymous wrote:I had a conversation with a kid from Churchill about this. He mentioned that a friend went to Gaithersburg and that they had a daycare/nursery in the school for the children of students.

I asked him why Churchill didn't have such a facility and he said, "we are smart enough to use condoms or to pull out".

The daycare at Gaithersburg High might be a preschool for the community, not for the students. My children's high school in the same part of MoCo has a child development center, used to teach students who are interested in going in to early childhood education about working with children. Anyone in the community can send their kids there.

My kids said they've only seen a few pregnant girls at their school. I have a friend who was a health tech at a middle school which had a pregnant 7th grader. Sad.

Anonymous wrote:I had a kid in my 8th grade class get pregnant 18 years ago.....had the kid, went on to have another while in 10th grade. She is now 32 and has an 18 year old.

So the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I had a conversation with a kid from Churchill about this. He mentioned that a friend went to Gaithersburg and that they had a daycare/nursery in the school for the children of students.

I asked him why Churchill didn't have such a facility and he said, "we are smart enough to use condoms or to pull out".

I had my first child at 15 (pregnant in 9th grade, had baby at beginning of 10th grade year). My high school (Dunbar) had a daycare for the teen mothers there.

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they should continue to go to school when they "show" or should they leave school and take classes at home?

Why should they not be allowed to continue school? I don't think "shaming" them helps at all.

Why wouldn't they continue to go to school? In a public school, I am pretty sure the school cannot tell them they can't come to school. Even at my Catholic HS, a girl in our class who got pregnant went to school up until the last month or so.

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they should continue to go to school when they "show" or should they leave school and take classes at home?

Definitely continue with school. It's bad enough to have a baby that young. It would be horrible to compound that with no high school diploma. Heck, they should have day care there too.

I had a kid in my 8th grade class get pregnant 18 years ago.....had the kid, went on to have another while in 10th grade. She is now 32 and has an 18 year old.

When I was a sophomore in high school, a freshman came into the high school in the beginning of the school year while 7-8 months pregnant.

It happens, and its nothing new. It just shows that we need to be proactive in teaching kids, even at a young age.

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they should continue to go to school when they "show" or should they leave school and take classes at home?

Amazing how no one considers that these girls have abortions. There are pregnancies at EVERY school, EVERY single one. I went to a big three and I know of girls who became pregnant. They chose not to take it to term, is all.