Pregnant adolescents in school Options

[jesusisthebestth...]

i was listening on to the radio the other day and there were some women who called in complaining because they were kicked out of junior high/high school when they started "showing" i think it's totally fair, i don't want to see some pregnant girl beside me in AP biology. but that's just me...

do you think that pregnant teens should be forced to leave school when they begin to show?

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

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.

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.