[neverdem]

$33,670!

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

New York’s Schools for Pregnant Girls

I am at a loss for words.

[neverdem]

New York Eighth Graders Show Gains in Reading

Michael Bloomberg's War on Guns

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[CindyDawg]

I disagree. Girls that are pregnant should not be in regular schools. The Daddies either.

[M203M4]

...the Education Department spent $33,670 on each student this year...more than double the citywide average of per-pupil spending.

Oh, almost $34k a year is expensive, but $17k a year - WHAT A BARGAIN! On a related note, the anti-voucher crowd throws around $6k as the "cash equivalent" value that each voucher would bestow to school age children for their education every year. Is that a Milton Friedman heyday number (1980's) that never got updated? Because it would be consistent with the component-wise breakdown of the change in the consumer price index for that particular commodity over said time period.

[Cacique]

They could have paid tuition at a private ivy league prep school.

[doug from upland]

Perhaps they should have kept their legs closed.

[TBP]

Pregnant girls with an education are more likely to be able to raise their children successfully, thus less likely to hve abortions and less likely to be dependent on government.

Those things are anathema to liberals.

[jalisco555]

Some of the high schools in my area (Syracuse, NY) have day-care centers. And they’re not for the children of the staff. Probably more efficient than seperate high schools for pregnant students.

[Raquel]

It’s probably a good thing that this school is being closed down, especially because of the high cost!! But more because NYC schools running some kind of program like this is always a lose-lose situation. This is again another great argument for vouchers. The Sisters of Life who have a home for pregnant moms in NYC would no doubt do a better job educating young women than the public schools which are wrought with self serving, self acclaimed liberal thinking, pro-abortion, anti-Christian school teachers.

Don’t be so hard on those teen moms!! Yes, they should of kept their “legs closed” but then again you have to give them credit for not aborting their innocent child as so many other young women do. I was a teen mom in NYC in the 80s. I got my GED and went on to college, graduating cum laude at the age of 25. I did it through hard work, not welfare or not because I was a rich kid. I just used my God-given brain and followed my heart.