Mike G
2008-06-21 20:16:52
This story seems familiar. I teach in an urban high school and me and my co-workers have noticed that in the past year or so there has been a near epidemic of pregnancies. And from the talk we hear in the hallway, most are planned, that is the young girls (some as young as 15) tried and succeeded in getting pregnant.
In a conversation I had with one of the young girls who is pregnant (although I wasn’t supposed to know), I told her that having a child when you’re are a teen is not a smart thing to do and more than likely to result in a lifetime of poverty. Her response was that she was offended by what I said. I guess the more PC thing to do should have been to congratulate her.
