Parent twist at Bronx HS (25% of students are pregnant or teen parents...)

NY Post ^ | 12/27/11 | YOAV GONEN Education Reporter

[jimbo123]

A shocking one in four students at a Bronx high school slated for closure is a teen parent or pregnant, The Post has learned.

That startling statistic is buried in thousands of pages of documents the city Department of Education submitted to the state earlier this year when it initially sought funds to fix the long-struggling Grace Dodge HS in Belmont.

It has since proposed shuttering the school — with, critics charge, no regard to the parenting teens.

[jimbo123]

[corkoman]

when there is a financial incentive to pop out babies the babies will pop out.

[Tzimisce]

The responsible people of the world once again paying for the irresponsible people.

Just another day in Obamaland. :(

[junta]

This crap is why non-government job white libs (excluding a few psychopaths who love to race bait) have taken to enviromental concerns and other such less depressing topics.

[Niuhuru]

“A shocking one in four students at a Bronx high school slated for closure is a teen parent or pregnant,”

This cannot possibly be the fault of society or of America in general. This HAS to be about the personal responsibility and it sounds to me like the school is struggling because the students are not trying and they are futureless, so they believe.

“It has since proposed shuttering the school — with, critics charge, no regard to the parenting teens.”

This is a school, not a daycare center for children. Really, these kids have ahd it bad enough, but they are just making things worse for themselves via getting pregnant in their teens.

[Niuhuru]

I wonder how many more citizenry will have to put off having kids they desperately want in order to pay for the kids that teenagers pop out with merry glee.

[MrB]

There are incentives to being a “single mom” in our society today,

so, therefore, there will be more single moms.

[Niuhuru]

the problem is that the system was designed to hlep people who accidently got pregnant out of wedlock and now it’s being used as an ATM machine.

[paul51]

a good start on the next generation of government dependents

[SamAdams76]

This is what happens when the government gives out "free" money for unwed mothers. A lot of young girls also see pregnancy as an excuse to drop out of school and spend the rest of their lives on the dole. As we are taking the "shame" out of the experience by issuing them EBT cards (which look like regular debit cards), we can only expect more of the same.

Unless this trend is reversed, eventually the system will collapse in on itself and it will be quite ugly for those who live in the cities.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My bet is some of them got pregnant right on site at the school.

[Tucker822]

“critics charge, no regard to the parenting teens.”

They had plenty of “regard” when they argued that teens are “going to do it anyway” and that sex is a natural consequence of being a teen.

They’ve reaped what they’ve sewn in my opinion.

[Niuhuru]

I’m not paying for it. After I get schooling and some funds, I am bailing to a country that does NOT support endless litters of illegitimate children. I want kids of my own and I am not putting having them off because I have to pay for Tamiqua’s spud or TaChinta’s brats who were created from the loins of a variety of gangster thugs.

[oldbrowser]

Sounds like a future democratic stronghold.

Do people like these create the need for cradle to grave government programs?
Or do cradle to grave government programs create people like these?

[bgill]

These are kids being raised by two working parents (a male daddy and a female mama) with Christian values, right?

[MrB]

No, but the left would go find the ONE that was and hold them up as the example that “Christian values don’t stop this behavior”.

[Beowulf9]

http://www.city-data.com/school/grace-h-dodge-career-and-technical-high-school-ny.html

White students(%): 1.0% This school:
1.0%
State average from 4363 schools:
55.4%

Black or African American students(%): 32.0% Here:
32.0%
State average from 4343 schools:
22.0%

Hispanic or Latino students(%): 65.0% Here:
65.0%
State average from 4390 schools:
22.0%

Asian students(%): 1.0% Here:
1.0%
State average from 3851 schools:
7.1%

American Indian or Alaska Native students(%): 1.0% Here:
1.0%
State average from 1182 schools:
2.1%

Limited English proficient students(%): 16.0% Here:
16.0%
State average from 3206 schools:
10.9%

Students in the highest grade who were also enrolled during the previous year(%): 88.0% Here:
88.0%
State average from 4425 schools:
91.0%

Students eligible for free lunch(%): 99.0% This school:
99.0%
State average from 4568 schools:
42.

[EyeGuy]

“I’m not paying for it. After I get schooling and some funds, I am bailing to a country that does NOT support endless litters of illegitimate children.”

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Asia?

‘Cause the vast majority of formerly brilliant and ascendant Western Civilization, has weakened into thieving, destructive Socialism.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Maybe we need to go Biblical on unwed mothers.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Better test the water in the school swimming pool.