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genghisaresAnna Merlan
3/30/15 11:34am
Shouldn't a boy who got a girl pregnant also be exhibiting poor "discipline" by this same reasoning and also be prohibited from class?
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  Gemmabetagenghisares
  3/30/15 11:37am
  Hush, we'll not have this thinking business round these here parts.
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  iamdeclinedplatinumcardcatgenghisares
  3/30/15 11:45am
  Now you're implying that it was someone their own age that got them pregnant. And that they went willingly.
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32_FootstepsAnna Merlan
3/30/15 1:21pm
I don't know, I'm actually kinda impressed. I always thought that women got pregnant from sex with men, but Sierra Leone instead found out that it's from spores emitted from other pregnant ladies. That's a scientific breakthrough if I ever heard one.
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floreatAnna Merlan
3/30/15 11:42am
The local private school next door to my comp did the same thing. In the UK. In the 2000s.
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  andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbanefloreat
  3/30/15 11:46am
  pretty standard practice at catholic schools.
  
  source: happened at my catholic school
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  floreatandsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbane
  3/30/15 11:47am
  I wish I could say the school had religion as an "excuse", but it was just backwards.
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EmilylorAnna Merlan
3/30/15 12:02pm
Yep. Because teen pregnancy looks so fun. I have wanted a baby since I was like ten. Despite this, I do not have a baby currently. Having a baby does not seem fun at this point in my life. Seeing my peers who are in positions similar to mine having babies does not seem like something I will strive to imitate. It happens and they love their babies and etc but why do people always think pregnancy encourages pregnancy. Even the Gloucester Pregnancy pact wasn't a pact to get pregnant, but to support each other as teen moms and during their pregnancy. When I was seventeen, I got into a "fight" with my friend's mom who thought Teen Mom would encourage us to get pregnant. NOTHING ABOUT TEEN MOM MADE ME WANT A BABY. Like, some people just want the fame but for the majority of kids I knew, that was an abstinence ad.

A top education official has suggested that having pregnant girls in class would "encourage other girls to do the same thing."
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DuchessODorkAnna Merlan
3/30/15 12:03pm
Yeah, the GIRLS need discipline. It's not like they had any help becoming pregnant or anything.
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  seventeensmallfishDuchessODork
  3/30/15 12:32pm
  didn't you know that sierra leone is 100% populated by asexually-reproducing females
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Distant_HorizonAnna Merlan
3/30/15 11:34am
'Visibly Pregnant' Girls in Sierra Leone Banned from Attending School

Of course they are. Didn't you know that pregnancy is contagious? If you're at a fertile age and look at a pregnant schoolgirl, you'll get pregnant, too! Same happens if a man looks at you sinfully on a street. It's perfectly understandable that wise old men would want to protect the young generation from horrors like that.
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000Anna Merlan
3/30/15 11:54am
"Education is a discipline...to take your education seriously,"

- he says.

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BrynMartianAnna Merlan
3/30/15 11:52am
My suburban Texas high school could not officially make pregnant girls attend the alternative school, but they were strongly pressured into doing so. I only knew of one girl who stuck it out in the regular high school, and that was out of a student body of nearly 3000. Every other girl just disappeared around the time her pregnancy became common knowledge.

Alternative schools are definitely a far cry from being barred from school entirely, but I wanted to share my relevant experience with this rather crappy practice.
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  Llama Del ReyBrynMartian
  3/30/15 12:09pm
  Your story is upsetting because Texas should (in theory) be significantly more progressive than Sierra Leone. How shitty.
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  BrynMartianLlama Del Rey
  3/30/15 12:12pm
  Pretty much. It was a public school, too. I just assumed it was common practice; shitty, but common. Guess not.
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sapphoAnna Merlan
3/30/15 12:05pm
The explicit wording of Meheux is new to me, but this sentiment about pregnant girls lacking the discipline or ability to succeed in school is not new at all. I graduated from a wealthy public high school in Charlotte Mecklenburg County in 2011, and pregnant girls were explicitly encouraged to drop out or go to shitty alternative schools by guidance counselors, teachers, administrators, etc. To say nothing of the sexist ad hominem attacks that regularly circulated in the student body if a woman was pregnant or was rumored to have had an abortion. The students who became pregnant also tended to be people of color and/or from poorer homes. I can only recall one white student who was pregnant in my entire time there. We've not come very far from Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education.
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  ErinElizabethsappho
  3/30/15 12:37pm
  Yup. I went to a well-off 99% white public school in the suburbs, and there were no pregnant girls. Only when one came back to visit with her newborn did I realize this wasn't because nobody was getting pregnant. They were just all sent to the "alternative" school, which I'm pretty sure was a couple of trailers outside the school board administration building.
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KaraNextWeekAnna Merlan
3/30/15 11:37am
Well, OBVIOUSLY. We can't let pregnancy spread from womb to womb. Once symptoms are visible, pregnancy becomes significantly more likely to spread.

Because, science.
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'Visibly Pregnant' Girls in Sierra Leone Banned from Attending School