64 girls pregnant in the same HS class

[thebullet]

Ohio High School Has 64 Pregnant Students

AP
CANTON, Ohio (Sept. 1) -...part of a statistic that has snagged the nation's attention: 64 of Timken High School's 490 female students - 13 percent - are pregnant.

Hey they've got nothing on the town I used to live in. We had a very small school, only 80 in the graduating class. 1/3rd of the Senior girls were pregnant. That's 33 percent. The kids used to say there were only three things to do in that town: get high, get drunk and get laid.

 

[R. Richard]

All I want to know is A) Who ran the sex education classes? B) Did they get paid for their incompetence?

 

[Stella_Omega]

All I want to know is A) Who ran the sex education classes? B) Did they get paid for their incompetence?

What fucking sex education classes?
They don't believe in sex ed in Ohio.

 

[HollyHawkk]

OMG! Never mind the sex ed classes... How about talking about how hard the future can be.

I was married and well into my 20's when I had my first child.. I thank god every day that I did'nt have a teen preg. to deal with in my life.

I live in a small town... I need to talk to my kids! Thanks for the wake up call.

 

[thebullet]

Seriously - in today's atmosphere where it is getting increasingly difficult for schools to discuss anything but abstinance, a parent had better start talking to her children, because abstinance ain't gonna happen.

I saw some news show on TV that claimed that some outrageous number (something like 30%) of middle school kids were having oral sex.

When I was in middle school I didin't know what a blow job was. The thought of eating a girl wouldn't have occurred to me in a million years - and if someone told me about it I would have called him a liar. Strangely, now it's all I think about.

 

[woodnymph_O]

Seriously - in today's atmosphere where it is getting increasingly difficult for schools to discuss anything but abstinance, a parent had better start talking to her children, because abstinance ain't gonna happen.

I saw some news show on TV that claimed that some outrageous number (something like 30%) of middle school kids were having oral sex.

When I was in middle school I didin't know what a blow job was. The thought of eating a girl wouldn't have occurred to me in a million years - and if someone told me about it I would have called him a liar. Strangely, now it's all I think about.

*giggles like mad**

but seriously
my family , not including myself has seen 4 abortions in 5 years
seems to be an aftersex birth control around here
some of the problem might be the tiny horizons these girls have
they thhink there is nothing in the world but drugs alcohol and sex,and by the time they realize it isn't true they are already in the boat
sad situation

 

[Stella_Omega]

I started screwing around at about 16, and I averaged one new guy per month for the first four years! LOL!
But I KNEW about birth control, and i KNEW about STD's, and I never got pregnant (although I did have to take more than one penicillin shot) until I was ready to have my babies- and that was later, at 33 and 36 years old.

 

[The_Darkness]

All I want to know is A) Who ran the sex education classes? B) Did they get paid for their incompetence?

Incompetence? I'd say the kids were fairly educated.....shit there's some of 'em probably know more than I do...

 

[Alex756]

Can I ask a serious question?

Where were the parents?

What was stopping mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, older siblings or whatnot from talking about sex to these boys AND girls.

I've already had a very serious talk on the topic with my little sister in law and her cousin (12 &13) I know both of their mom's have also talked to them.

-Alex

 

[thebullet]

Alex:
Not to be flip, but my experience living in small town America tells me that sex of all kinds is one of the primary pasttimes. So the parents are doing much the same thing the kids are doing.

There really isn't a lot to do at night except cruise the big circle through town (every small town I've ever lived in had a cruisin' street that the kids went up over down over and up - all night long). One town's cruisers specialized in Corvettes, you could see 20 or 30 'vettes every night, just cruisin'.

As I said in an earlier post: get drunk, get high, get laid: that's life in snall town America for these kids. And the parents aren't far behind them as I recall. (When I was there it was a lot less 'get high' from the parents and a lot more 'get drunk'. But 'get laid' remained a solid #3.)

This is not to condemn these little towns. These are wonderful places to live for the most part. But the girls have got to watch out or they are gonna get pregnant. That's a fact of life.

 

[Alex756]

Alex:
Not to be flip, but my experience living in small town America tells me that sex of all kinds is one of the primary pasttimes. So the parents are doing much the same thing the kids are doing.

I grew up in a small town with the main 'cultural' event being the stock car races every Saturday. Its a choice. Doesn't stop responsible adults from talking about safe sex. Doesn't mean you have no choices but to get knocked up.

I don't even want to say how young I figured that out, but I also knew how to play the odds of safety.

I think blaming the schools is not the heart, its the families with primary responsibility.

-Alex

 

[The_Darkness]

I grew up in a small town with the main 'cultural' event being the stock car races every Saturday. Its a choice. Doesn't stop responsible adults from talking about safe sex. Doesn't mean you have no choices but to get knocked up.

I don't even want to say how young I figured that out, but I also knew how to play the odds of safety.

I think blaming the schools is not the heart, its the families with primary responsibility.

-Alex

Good call. Good or Bad Parenting...or even parents who just can't be there because of work, or are there all the time, lessons of responcibility, and lessons of respect are all things that shape our young lives. I was blessed with awesome parents that made clear to me what would and would not happen with things like drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. Not everyone has that benefit.....and when that benefit is not there, you get 33% of the kids in a class that get pregnant.

My real question is how many of the boys in the class were sexually active and how many of them will be paying child support on at least one kid?

 

[gauchecritic]

outline of tongue visible in cheekal area.

Can I be the gad guy here and sound a voice of dissent?

I'm going to assume a few things about the situation but teenage pregnancy isn't as bad as all that, there is a lot of upside to early pregnancies. (I'm sure you can all list the downsides from your end)

At age thirty five:

An early mother has a vast knowledge of childhood ailments, psychology and pharmacea.

A late mother knows... how to do her job.

An early mother has fulfilled a large part of her biological potential and joined a worldwide sisterhood achieved only through pain and heartache.

A late mother has... gotten promotion.

An early mother has the drive and energy to continue her studies, attend night classes, hold down some (pleasant) part time work (or not as she chooses)

A late mother has to... hold down everything and to cap it all has only pain and heartache to look forward to.

An early mother is just 35 with grown kids and now has more varied and deeper experience than the chief assistant to the assistant of the ceo.

A late mother is... 35, with no experience and less energy than her lazy boss.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Thank God for Bush's sex ed politics - "just tell the curious, bored, hormone-ridden teenagers NOT TO DO IT, and everything will be OK".

 

[impressive]

Can I be the gad guy here and sound a voice of dissent?

I'm going to assume a few things about the situation but teenage pregnancy isn't as bad as all that, there is a lot of upside to early pregnancies. (I'm sure you can all list the downsides from your end)

At age thirty five:

An early mother has a vast knowledge of childhood ailments, psychology and pharmacea.

A late mother knows... how to do her job.

An early mother has fulfilled a large part of her biological potential and joined a worldwide sisterhood achieved only through pain and heartache.

A late mother has... gotten promotion.

An early mother has the drive and energy to continue her studies, attend night classes, hold down some (pleasant) part time work (or not as she chooses)

A late mother has to... hold down everything and to cap it all has only pain and heartache to look forward to.

An early mother is just 35 with grown kids and now has more varied and deeper experience than the chief assistant to the assistant of the ceo.

A late mother is... 35, with no experience and less energy than her lazy boss.

Damn it, gauche! You just made me realize I'm old enough to be a GRANDMOTHER if I'd been an early mother and so had my child.

I think I'll just go jump off the fuckin' roof.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Damn it, gauche! You just made me realize I'm old enough to be a GRANDMOTHER if I'd been an early mother and so had my child.

I think I'll just go jump off the fuckin' roof.

Isn't it funny how you sometimes hear "in some countries, you'd be a grandmother by now" - and then you realize that the country in question is your own..?

 

[Guest]

My cousin was a grandfather at 32, and a great grandfather at 47.

And yep, real small town.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Say, what do you do for fun in a small town like this?"
"We go fishin'... and chasin' gels."
"And what do you do in the wintertime?"
"Then we don't go fishin'."

 

[thebullet]

In my little town the wife of the town cop used to walk around braless (about a D cup) in a skin tight tee-shirt that said:
Candy is Dandy but Sex don't rot your teeth

 

[Guest]

In my little town the wife of the town cop used to walk around braless (about a D cup) in a skin tight tee-shirt that said:
Candy is Dandy but Sex don't rot your teeth

I'd heard that Thelma Lou married Barney, and then went bad. So it's true?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

It's more important to spend money on extracurricular activities than to promote competent sexual education programs.

 

[Guest]

Ten Years ago at the country club...

"Damn, too many kids keep graduating high school and going to college. We are having trouble getting a cheap labor force. What shall we do?"

"Simple, call up those damn politicians we own and tell them to insist on absenence only -- and outlaw learning about birth control. Those teenage baby makers will be too busy to go to school, and have to take any job they can to support their kids."

"Great idea. Hey, didn't I hear your daughter is bound for your alma mater Harvard next year?"

"Sure is. Good thing she's on the pill. She's been boinking football players since middle school."

 

[kendo1]

I suppose they could get a diploma in Post Natal Depression.

Anyway, no-one ever got pregnant through oral sex- maybe that's what they should be taught.

 

[fifty5]

Damn it, gauche! You just made me realize I'm old enough to be a GRANDMOTHER if I'd been an early mother and so had my child.

I think I'll just go jump off the fuckin' roof.

Hold it Flicka (till I get there and we can jump together).

I AM a gran'dad. The woman (great lass - I DTP'd her PhD thesis) who used to live with my eldest son had a kid this year, by someone else (but my lad still fixes her computer - and she visits him with her new bloke!) My youngest - and the lady he isn't married to - are great parents to my grandchild, despite her being brought back from a continental back-packing holiday 'by accident'. - And we get on very well with the 'out'laws...

Dunno what that proves, except that: "it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it!"

 

[gauchecritic]

Damn it, gauche! You just made me realize I'm old enough to be a GRANDMOTHER if I'd been an early mother and so had my child.

I think I'll just go jump off the fuckin' roof.

Well if you still have the body of a woman half your age then you're perfect material for the sloppy bastards who think mature just means older.

"For a 65 year old woman she could still fill a swimsuit better'n most girls a third of her age."

I detest idle writers that simply change the age of a person to fit a category. I loath those short sighted wankers that can't see the beauty of stretch marks and crow's feet.


OK rant over. Nothing to see here. Go back to your thread.