you disgust me with your selfish thoughts. if that's the only reason, go to hell.
i think they deserve to go to school if that's what they want. theydeserve to have an education and have a life.

out of the entire debate that's all you got? this debate is not about pregnant teens being refused an education, it's about pregnant teenagers being placed in alternative schools when they begin to show. but thanks for your input.

i think i've made my point.

so u didnt read the rest of the debate? like the rules state? the young girls are placed in alternative schools with other girls who are teen mothers or pregnant. they are "kicked out" or forced to leave public schools when they begin to show. i'm glad that you are so literal and i am happy that you read the topic of the debate, but you may want to read the entire debate and the opinions of others. but again, i thank you for you input.

lol k
yea i'm gonna agree with soeffingmajor on this one
that point was made a long time ago in the debate, she's already clarified herself numerous times


anyway, so u said this is already taking place in some states?

unless it's a strict religious school you shouldn't be. otherwise they should lay off in public.

i am not sure. but i know for a fact that it happens in schools in maryland, where i live...i've had a 4 friends sent to alternative schools when they started to show. some of them didn't even go to the alternative school, they just stayed home, which is unfortunate.

so when they were sent home/alternative school what were they told?

There have been a few girls at my school a while back that were pregnant yet still came to school even in the late months of the pregnency they still showed up.

I say if they choose to have the education then let them have it but if they have medical problems within the late months or need to take breaks every few minutes then they should get off thier feet at school and take rest for a while.

ok these are what you put in your posts. do you see the difference between the two? do you know english? the first one you are talking about them kicked out in "general". the second one you reworded it to make it seem as if they actually had an option. if you were smart you would've added thos key words in your first post in the first place. but yea i do see your point now. it's a good thing you changed the words around to a make it seem like you were the good guy all along to prevent further flaming.

what is ur problem? get the f**k over it. ur attacking her for no reason, read the whole debate. ur not being clever, ur being repetitive of what we've all said already. she's been flamed already for her word choice and she corrected herself. so who cares. u've never said something at first and then thought of a better wording later?

moving on

i agree with trinity.
but yea, i think providing alternative schools is fine if the girls WANT to go there, but i don't think they should be forced to. i'd be interested to know what the school officials said to the girls when they were sending them off to alternative school. if they just said, "well ur showing, u gotta go now"

i wasn't trying to make myself seem like anything. a lot of people don't agree with my opinion that the girls should be sent to alternative schools, but i'm not going to change that. i don't care who it offends, i made a debate topic because i wanted to know what others thought about it & i wanted to know if this happens in anyone else's state. that's it and that's all, honey. but thanks for your input on the debate topic as a whole. it's nice to know your thoughts on the matter
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thanks for coming to my defense brooklyneast05. i really appreciate it

but to answer ur question, they told them all this stuff about health effects, other students in schools, snide remarks, etc. but surprisingly, none of my friends' parents challenged the idea. they accepted it and that was that.

That's just wrong if they are forced to leave the school. I mean, so what if the girl is pregnant? She chose to stay in school and maintain a good education. People will always have something to say about everything. So when they see pregnant girls, it can go both ways. My school has a nursery so thats why I'm for letting them stay in school.

no that has never happened to me on a forum before. it's called "thinking before acting", and i think people can see their mistakes clearly when it is written out like so, and they can fix it and it can prevent people from getting flamed. my point is that since this is a debate topic and people are likely going to look at the first question in the first post by the creater, the creater should make things clear or else change the question around(in the first question/post also) to prevent me or other people from wasting their breath. understand? now that's my "problem". and i think i've made my point clear now if none of you understood that was what i was saying in my second post.

Well, there's one of the main reason a lot of us are opposing this. Pregnant girls shouldn't be forced to go out of their way to continue their education, as many of them won't. That's hardly a good thing. The desire to be educated-- regardless of how strong or weak it is-- shouldn't be suppressed like that, especially for reasons so entirely irrelevant to how they actually fare academically. I'm not saying girls who get pregnant shouldn't have an option if they don't want to stay in their normal school, for the embarrassment and all of that, but forcing them out to another school likely nowhere near their homes is not the answer to this nonexistent problem.

yeah but bad things happen to good people...others are just sluts, or just screwed up one night and didn't think. anyways...honestly, i'm neutral on this; some people don't want to be sitting by some pregnant girl in class-others don't mind. they should have options, but i think the choice should be left to everybody-students, faculty, and the pregnant person.

but WHY do they not want to be sitting next to a pregnant girl?

No, it should definitely be the choice of the girl who is actually pregnant. The democratic process shouldn't be used to take away someone's right to a PUBLIC education, especially when no one else is actually affected. Not wanting to sit next to a pregnant girl is still an incredibly weak argument. By having sex irresponsibly, or just unfortunately, she has committed no crime, no nothing that poses any sort of threat to any other students. I can understand why someone might want to leave their school to go to an alternative one as well, but there most definitely needs to be a choice involved (and by choice, I still mean one by the girl herself).

Because she's a pregnant ball of hate, lust, greed.

yeah i mean that's basically the only reason i can think of. so far everyone in this topic who's claimed to not want to sit next a pregnant girl hasn't been able to give a reason why they don't.

You could do a better job. She could be smoking or drinking.

She can make you jealous. She could have gotten pregnant just so that she could have sex without contraceptives.

Gross!! She's also distracting because she sits there and eats pickles and mayo at lunch.

Damn dude, She's like a ticking time bomb. She could have a baby at any moment. What if you were taking your math regents, and all of the sudden the girl next to you started having a baby! I would be so mad. Shit woman!, cann't you just hold it for one fucking hour while I take my damn test!