yes, we should make the already astoundingly awesome lives of teenage mothers' that much more difficult
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"oh yes, we'll provide you with materials and information on safe sex, but if all that doesn't work, you're on your own."
i think that we should try to promote teenage mothers to still try to come to school, but that means if that girl doesn't have an understanding relative or friend who has the time to look after a baby, she has to drop school and that's normally the end of an education.
if schools provide daycare [and some do] mothers would be able to finish their education, and perhaps form a closer bond with their kids through some sort of parenting class with their babies right there.
Bardock42 is a whimpering pussy now who lost his flare to debate vigorously and just spouts senseless and thinly veiled puns here and there. You nazi pr*ck. Get your balls back from whoever you sold them to, you fat f*ck. What happened to the manly, chubby German big mouth we once knew, who'd flatten ignorance with a solid argument? Now it's like Andy Dick meets John Candy. You hybrid beefcake. Suck my c*ck
school boards, when they come together, tend to be quite stupid whilst they are intelligent as individuals.
you're right, pittman. or is it da? ah well. i never said this plan could be implemented everywhere, but i know that it's happening at some high schools and some businesses. i know it wouldn't work in a college arena.
but i also know that a GPA or graduation equivalent is a good thing to have behind you job-wise.
i have no clue how to be practical about the money raising question. that's why i can be such an idealist, though. and yjat's also why i would fail as a politician.
I get what you are saying, sirius, but imho, if there is extra money in a school budget, it should be invested directly into education.
I'm all for schools being more adaptive and accommodating to the needs of teen mothers, but funding their child care is not fair to students to have the sense not to be impregnated at such a young age (I'm not sure what the % of teenage pregnancies come from rape or the like... I'd assume at least not most [sic ].
You might argue that mothers are a special needs group, but I feel there needs to be some degree of personal responsibility. People with learning disabilities or other needs didn't choose to have such needs, and extra funding for them is there to remove inherent inequalities. Teen mothers, for the most part, chose to engage in sexual activity.
Would better education and access to sexual resources be helpful to prevent them from making such retarded choices, yes, and I'm 100% for educating children on a huge spectrum of topics related to personal sexuality, not just the mechanics. But to divert funds from students who are able to have responsible sexual relationships to raise the children of those who aren't, that is totally unfair to the vast majority of people.
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No, School is more about social structure than anything. School gets you ready for the real world. In the "Real" world, you have to do shit on your own. You have to get used to the idea of having to make sacrifices in order to make things work. This bullshit just gets people more comfortable with relying on others.
To be fair though, i'm not a pregnant teenager so...,here's is your contradiction.
I seriously didn't contradict myself in the first post. I simply stated an observation and an opinion
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