Posted on 10/16/2009 7:15:57 AM PDT by MindBender26
(Video of pregnant girls)
All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.
If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation.
Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are expecting.
To put it in perspective, their school pictures would fill roughly six pages of their high school year book.
Why is it happening at Robeson?
"It can be a lot of things that are happening in the home or not happening in the home, if you will," Morrow said. Absentee fathers are another factor, he said.
LaDonna Denson and two other Robeson students say parents not talking to teens and, in some cases, the pursuit of public assistance also factor into the pregnancies. None of them thought they'd be moms at such a young age.
They said they have support at home. But not all girls do, they said. In fact, some girls get thrown out of the home.
Not on Morrow's turf. "We're not looking at them like 'Ooh you made a mistake,'" he said. "We're looking at how we can get them to the next phase, how can we still get them thinking about graduation?"
So there's help in a teen parent program. And coming soon, right across from Robeson, developers are turning a one-time crack house into a day care for student use. "We have to provide some type of environment for them and some form of support for them," Van Vincent, CEO of VLV Development, said.
It's all made an impression.
"Just cause you have a baby, that doesn't mean your life is over," one student said.
One thing they might not know about their principal: His mom had him when she was 15. That's why accepting the problem -- and working through it -- is so important to him
Why does this happen?
Here are three hints:
#1: They are having unprotected sex! (like, Duh!) #2: No morals #3: The school, in Chicago, is named after an African American Communist, Barack Obama, oops, I mean Paul Robeson!
“There is no simple explanation.” This is where the fuzz starts. It is SO SIMPLE. Perhaps it should read, “There is no common sense.”
Hey, someone has got to pay for my social security in 25 years....
That is, if they are working....
“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.”
“I am going to teach my daughters first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
—BARACK OBAMA
Robeson was a commie.
It doesn't only apply to married couples.
"It wasn't green or yellow, so I
didn't think it needed a condom.
No fathers...
for about FOUR GENERATIONS.
Perhaps the COMMUNITY is is into COMMUNITY SEX?
When a mommy bird loves a daddy bee...
Ya think?
ACORN has started a new program: Register In The Womb. Twice!
It’s all about destroying the family.
Start with neutralizing men as fathers.
End with a destroyed society.
Look no further... We have found the cause of the violence in Chicago. Feral children, raised on the streets and in community centers.
Gee, did they even mention anything about these babies daddies? How many of them are teachers? How many of them are the same daddies?
Its not like kids today have any kind of moral foundation except "not to be judgmental".
The girls life has just become really messed up - Man - I cant even believe in todays society they don’t know better. Statistically they are finished.
When you’re young, you’re stupid. - Wendy Hiller
Condoms fail 1 in 20 times under perfect conditions.
So “protection” is a matter of degrees
BTW, I;m in the same boat as you - we get the bills for irresponsibility. I'm not picking on you personally.
“1 Of 8 Girls Pregnant At Paul Robeson High In Chicago (in a Chicago “Neighboorhood School!”
Oh those horny swiss immigrants.
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