At one high school, 115 girls are pregnant

Perhaps they need a much better sex ed program? And none of that crap where the parent decides if you're allowed to learn it. Obviously, they either need to be informed, or just keep their legs together.

And I thought it was weird that most of my friends in their 20's are having kids...

U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aabirthrate.htm

http://www.muninetguide.com/states/texas/municipality/Rockwall.php

10 Fastest-Growing Counties in U.S. by Percent Increase: July 1, 2001, to July 1, 2002

Rank County Name State Percent
Increase Numerical
Increase July 1, 2002
Estimated
Population
1 Rockwall Texas 7.9 3,728 50,858
2 Loudoun Va. 7.3 13,874 204,054
3 Henry Ga. 7.1 9,280 139,699
4 Forsyth Ga. 7.1 7,741 116,924
5 Flagler Fla. 6.9 3,719 57,377
6 Douglas Colo. 6.8 13,480 211,091
7 Newton Ga. 6.6 4,451 71,594
8 Scott Minn. 6.4 6,216 103,681
9 Stafford Va. 6.2 6,120 104,823
10 Delaware Ohio 6.1 7,174 125,399

If you believe that story about how having more babies makes you more Macho than Rockwall Texas is overpopulated with Machos. Open your eyes and see who is really turning our country into shit by way of ignorants who are liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, etc...the list goes on. No need to dig deeper...just look for the fat pockets who ripped you off in the last several decades. People think we can't do anything about them and that's pretty ignorant until people get together and speak up.

Wonder how many STDS are being passed around at this school. They need to get birth control rods put into their arms or something?

If there is one thing I have learned from school... It is that school does not educate children, it makes them stupid, it makes them lazy, it makes them apathetic.

I had in total about 6 teachers in all of my years of schooling that ACTUALLY TAUGHT THE CLASS. Most just sit on a computer and give you a piece of paper to work on.... I can finish the paper on my own, so why don't we just cut out the middle man? Why are the teachers there if they don't teach?

I was never an good literature student, but I'm pretty sure that a teacher is someone who "teaches".

Alot of girls were pregnant in my highschool too. Either because their following after mommy and daddys foot steps or found their true love after 2 months together (somehow doubtful) or they don't want to have to get a job... that was the most common one... they just didn't want to get a job... pathetic.

I don't know why this is also in the Comedy group. It isn't really funny at all.

One time I saw the best shirt ever at a concert that read: Homosexuality prevents teenage pregnancy"

WIN.

damn, talk about a placenta party

I'm from Utah where it is against the law for a teacher to talk about anything but abstinence. Pregnancy was a huge problem at both the high schools I went to. The best teacher I ever had was very conservative and very LDS (mormon) and even she disagreed with this policy. Teachers who go against it have been known to lose their jobs. If it wasn't for Talk Sex With Sue I would probably be in the same boat :)

I have to say i do not think it is a color thing(if i thought it was i would say so) i think it is a poor thing .I am white and i had a child at 19 .i got a job and paid rent .I did these things because it was sink or swim.my mom loved me but i will never forget what she said to me .and i quote,"your knocked up becuase you did not have the money for any other form of entertainment .sex is free" I grew up upper middle class.and it was made perfectly clear to me that she would never let us starve but there was a running tab on that wich she expected back .I had to be responsible and i was.she worked but still acted like a mother so i knew how i was supossed to act.so if and when i wanted wanted to cry poor me i was told grow up and do it with a little bit of dignity

Mandatory Masturbation Training and classes in Self Esteem and Self Worth.

Problem solved

So why is this listed under comedy and not WTF? this is WTF if I ever herd it

Those girls need to get some zippers

haha the full article says the principals own mother birthed him at age 15!!

"That's why accepting the problem -- and working through it -- is so important to him."

perhaps the focus, especially since he had warning, should've been on PREVENTION?

First of all, I would like to say that I am white.
Having said that, I don't understand why this has to be a racial issue or a political issue.. I know plenty of white girls who got pregnant in high school.. In fact, last year a story came out that girls at a high school in Massachusetts had a pregnancy pact and were getting knocked up on purpose.. They were mostly WHITE.
The issue here is not race. The problem is that parents don't pay attention to their children anymore. Parents just let their kids sit in their rooms on their computers and look at whatever they want.. or let them watch R-rated movies at young ages.. or let them go out with whoever they want and they don't even try to get to know their children's friends. There's no family time at the dinner table. The divorce rate is ridiculous.. so there's alot of families with single parents. One woman is having to do the work of 2 parents. Children don't get enough attention. And really, all this means is there is a problem with the previous generation. My dad has 2 brothers and 3 sisters.. all 6 of them have been divorced.. some multiple times. This has nothing to do with Obama. It's some kind of defect with our parent's generation and it's trickling down to our generation. It's sad, really. So how do we fix it? Spend more time with our children. Talk to them about everything. Ignoring the situation will not help. Children should be educated about their bodies and how hard it is to take care of a baby. Children play with dolls and at 13 and 14, they still think of babies in that sense.. it's all fun and games. Parents need to let them know that babies take more love than they give, and they should focus on their education and their future and wait until they are financially stable to have babies.
Another problem is that girls have such low self-esteem and low self-respect. Which still goes back to the fact that parents aren't paying attention to their children. Parents of girls should be putting them in activites that are healthy and make them feel good about theirselves. Parents of boys should teach them how to respect girls and not call them names when they hit puberty.
Yeah, there is alot of black people who are in this terrible situation, but there's alot of white people too. The problem is the PARENTS. If you want to bitch about all these girls getting pregnant and going on welfare, when you become a parent you better make damn sure that you pay attention to your children or it will happen to you too.

Just out of scientific curiosity I wonder 1) how many unique daddy;s there are to those 113 babies and 2) what are the ages of said daddys...

The article just leaves the guys out of the picture. Why? I thought we at least understood sex well enough as a society to realize that it takes at least 2 people to produce offspring.

Maybe an earlier commenter was right, doing DNA to establish paternity and then forcing the guys to take on the role of parent and, more onerously, breadwinner might do more to combat unwanted pregnancy than any other form of sex education or abstinance ever will.

I mean, if you wanna play in Vegas you have to pay your tab...

Amen JonRaymond... right on the money.

I find it funny some people seem to be blaming Obama? And he's in office since these girls were born, thus why he's responsible for them getting knocked up, right? 'in Obama's America'?! Gez, people are arrogant!

I don't feel a school should have to teach kid's/teenagers common sense life lessons. It's the parents! who should be guiding their children from a young age to become a better person. But, I'd say most people shouldn't be parents, no matter the race or generation, just most people can't parent correctly.

If the parents aren't doing anything, and the school is actually giving incentives to get pregnant, I'm sure If I was a young lady I would work on joining the club. Why should the school be providing 'free' daycare for the children of these children. The idea of supporting these girls to keep these children is a big part of the problem. They are minors, they are students, if the parents kick them out, maybe the message isn't make it the schools responsibility to help. There is a point where you can teach, and then there is a point where you must force people to make the right decision, the cold real fact is the decision they are making will result in them getting an underpaid job while they support a family on a nonexistent income. Why does society support them? This idea of compassion is completely corrupted, all we want is them to fit into a poverty mold and stay there and vote this way or that. As far as the fathers, why doesn't the state get paternity testing as a condition of support. This will cause many a girl to identify dad, and the state can start to cause him to support his children. Every girl has a choice to get pregnant, If the books are stacked against pregnancy, would she be as willing to get pregnant in the first place?

They do know what causes that - don't they?

sigh. We could always just teach poor folk the 3 r's for a few years and throw in a good dose of religion. Fear of God really is good to keep unwanted pregnancies under control. It is also good for the abortion providers.

Soo too much freedom is bad for people who aren't smart enough to shoulder the responsibilities that come with such freedom and excessive control is bad because it limits freedom.

Everyone seems to be at one end of the spectrum or the other and no one talks about the realities of it all. Or tries to find realistic solutions based on those realities.

Very very sad. It all starts at home. The school cannot be held responsible for any of that. Parents need to step it up!

And why is this in the Current comedy section?

if remanns could keep it in check.

where do values come from? well in this case. did you know that the largest audience for soap operas is teen s?

Jv and varsity damn that's like 40 more good call!

Nooo more like 130 or so, however many guys are on the football team.

116 after tonight! Bam! Can anyone say highschool football homecoming party?

Why is it that those who can't afford to have or raise kids, have the most kids?

115 new Obama voters-to-be.

They will most likely be sucking off my (and yours) tax nipple.

Improve education levels and pregnancy rates will decrease. It's been proven in many countries of many races. Teach the children how to read, how to do math, how to hold down a job, and they will aspire to better things than getting knocked up.

Unfortunately girls without fathers in the home tend to enter puberty earlier and more often become promiscuous and explains the high rate of teen pregnancy and unwed births. Being raised in a single mother home often turns into a vicious circle which entraps girls in particular.

I have a hard time doubting this but understand again hoes are every you dnt hav to go just to chicago.... this hurts the natural ora of thngs. men b ready too accept women wit children.....real talk!

Educated people have less children . These poor girls knew they weren't smart . How many options did they have there ? They are now mostly condemned to a life with suffering and lack ,

you guys blaming liberals and sex education...this is solely the responsibility of the parents who do not educate and teach these kids how to live the right way and kids who did this to get pregnant. Its very simple. If you guys are talking about taking responsibility, then put it on the people who should bear it.

Education is failing in this country. We have one of the worst education systems in the world. We are fast becoming a third world country if we aren't already one. we spend all our money on war and health insurance that denies care to people for corporate profit. We live in a corporate socialist welfare state that supports Wall Street and tells main street and all it's high schools to fuck off.

We kill innocent people in other countries for war industry profit. We kill innocent people in this country for health industry profit. We live by and for the corporations, not the people. This country is a lie. When Barack Obama says God bless America at the end of each of his speeches, what he really means is God bless Wall Street, fuck everyone else.

Our democracy has failed. Our capitalism has failed. This country is a failure and it's all our own faults because in a democracy if the people don't act, the few take over and control them through a propagandized media and corrupt paid off government.

You don't like what's happening in the schools? Then get off your fat TV watching ass and do something.

for this scool, the rate is 14%. Our teen pregancy rate in Idaho is 33%. We're #1 !! oh, nevermind!

and I thought mine was bad...

Just slip Birth control pills in the cafeteria, and see what happens

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Somebody Call Guinness!!!

jk that's nowhere near a record. My graduating class was 1030 students, and we had abstinence only sex education. Solve for x.

x being the amount of hot steamy unprotected teen sex the conservative Christian Oklahoma farm girls had at my school...

These girls believe that they have no future, otherwise they would not be doing this for a measly 500 a pop or so as someone in this discussion said.
Those who feel they have no real future or place in the society do things like have babes or sell drugs for short term gain.
Education and opportunity would reduce this.

And those who want to outlaw abortion should have to take the children that some of these women do not want. But for the anti-choice its damn if you do and your a welafare queen if you don't.
If you study the culture of poverty, their actions are understandable. But I guess not everyone takes 20 hours of Sociology. And Corporate welfare????

Halliburton, and the oil companies are ripping us off and they are not ignorant and culturally deprived. They have lawyers who help them steal from the taxpayers of this country . Oil company subsidies while they are making the largenst record profits in the world and Haqlliburton's no bid cost plus contracts and being allowed to "lose" 9 million and not pay it back. They are probably gaming the system much more than the poor.

I would like to apologize...........

It's Chicago in Obama's America. We'll just have the taxpayers pay for the kids' food, health care, education, etc., etc. Those are some damn good tax credits those girls have got going there. They will be able to put a down payment on a 10 year old Lexus with 100k miles with the tax refund checks they'll be getting.

No simple explanation, eh? Funny that the blond white newscaster is the journalist on a story about a Black neighborhood school.

I wish someone would teach people how to be a responsible adult instead of just another burden on society. This is pathetic; I could think of a few solutions to the problem, but they are not humane.

parents obviously didn't teach people to keep their legs closed, men and women both.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you keep you "things" to yourself you wouldn't have this problem!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like somebody needs to "spill" lots of birth control hormones in the cities water supply. It would be a double win; less babies help women get out of this perpetual cycle and the men would be pacified by female hormones.

Or we could just start taking babies away from people who can't afford to raise them on their own, and steralize the parents until they can pass a simple test to show they are capable. (AKA stop paying people to have babies)

How did that condom on the banana thing work out?

How come whenever i try to watch the vid i see a Jack LaLane story?

"Why Are 1 Of 8 Girls Pregnant At Robeson High?'

Because they are having sex?

Checks for after school?

Sex education is not the problem. The problem is inattentive parents who often have to work 2-3 jobs in order to support their families.

It's not the fault of the schools or liberals. It's the fault of black society and culture in America today. It's not uncommon to see a man who can barely afford to feed his children wearing $200 shoes and carrying around the latest iPod with all the matching accessories.

I've worked with people who would rather be able to go out to a club every Saturday than be able to afford a reliable mode of transportation to get to and from work.

The problem does start with education - there are many majority black schools in American in which the school can't even afford enough text books to allow students to take them home and study at night.

Face it. This country has let its black population down for centuries.

Curtis, I agree completely. I suppose that some are going to say that I'm a racist, but I live in the city that used to be the teen pregnancy capitol of the United States, Santa Maria, CA. The illegal aliens here just go to the emergency room, have a free baby, and being American citizens as soon as they are born, qualify for welfare. Fucking wonderful. Might as well have several more, because the more babies a guy has, the more macho he appears (as it was explained to me).

And people wonder why this country seems to be turning to shit.

Disgusting. All you have to do is take a look at the stats for the school and you can see how miserably this school is failing.

http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/il/1243

1/8 girls are pregnant in a school that is over 99% black, and which is failing miserably the state standardized tests. This is exactly the kind of place that Bill Cosby has said is in a crisis. Black leaders are in a rage about black on black crime, but gosh, what do you think this kind of irresponibility leads to?

this in a school that is doing what liberals love: teaching about sex education.

how's that working for you?

the principal is going out of his way to remove any stigma from being single and pregnant. This encourages more of the same. Then they try to find ways of making it easy for them to have their babies and still go to school--sounds noble, but it again encourages more of the same.

Does anyone ever stop to think that this is why pregnant girls used to be sent home instead of accomodated?

I remember a student telling me one time that "having a baby makes me someone".

instead of handouts and freebies and sex education that doesn't work, maybe they should be teaching more about "being someone" by accomplishing something other than SEX.

Yeah, having a baby at 15 makes you someone: it makes you a burden on society.

Now Obama is talking about a "fat tax", taxes on junk food, to try to force America to be 'responsible." What sort of tax are they going to come up with to make these young fools responsible? Who is paying for all those deliveries? All the care for those babies?

WE are. and I'm fed up with my wallet being emptied so these ne'erdowells can have irresponsible sexual relations at the expense of the tax payer.

SHAME upon Robeson High and the principal, and upon ALL liberals who promote this sort of thing.

And then you cry and wonder why minorities constitute a disproportionate part of the jail population, why they are stuck in "cycles of poverty".

You need to teach more about responsibility and less about "rights" and "liberty"