this world is fucked up
i'm doing a research project on pregnant teens in high school...i'm coming up with a group therapy, daycare, family planning thing that could work in schools and i might like to try it when i get into a school.
but i never knew how bad it was for teens til i started talking to them. some schools push them out and send them to these night schools, others just don't go back because they're scared to, and most just feel they can't have an education when they get pregnant.
so this is shitty and it should change and i'm not going to be naive enough thinking i can change the board of education...but i am ambitious/optimistic/naive enough to think i can try to start something in one school.
so for the new few years this will be the main focus of what i'd like to attempt:
-create a support system in the school for pregnant teens so that they know exactly where to go for help
-group therapy for pregnant teens, where they can support eachother.
-daycare within the school, offering health/science credit to pregnant teens who help out at the daycare (learning to care for babies AND still using it towards a diploma)
-Career/Family planning....teenagers can't get jobs as it is let alone getting one pregnant.
i would love to talk to the principal at lehman and see what he thinks of it. just to get a principal's opinion. then again it might be better to get a female principal's perspective.
i mean isn't it silly that they say "if you get pregnant, it's likely you won't finish school" when they don't offer any reason for you to even try to stay in school!
ugh.
the only problem is the daycare part....there could very well be a whole lot of babies to take care of, and what school is going to want to pay for that?
So the research begins!
but i never knew how bad it was for teens til i started talking to them. some schools push them out and send them to these night schools, others just don't go back because they're scared to, and most just feel they can't have an education when they get pregnant.
so this is shitty and it should change and i'm not going to be naive enough thinking i can change the board of education...but i am ambitious/optimistic/naive enough to think i can try to start something in one school.
so for the new few years this will be the main focus of what i'd like to attempt:
-create a support system in the school for pregnant teens so that they know exactly where to go for help
-group therapy for pregnant teens, where they can support eachother.
-daycare within the school, offering health/science credit to pregnant teens who help out at the daycare (learning to care for babies AND still using it towards a diploma)
-Career/Family planning....teenagers can't get jobs as it is let alone getting one pregnant.
i would love to talk to the principal at lehman and see what he thinks of it. just to get a principal's opinion. then again it might be better to get a female principal's perspective.
i mean isn't it silly that they say "if you get pregnant, it's likely you won't finish school" when they don't offer any reason for you to even try to stay in school!
ugh.
the only problem is the daycare part....there could very well be a whole lot of babies to take care of, and what school is going to want to pay for that?
So the research begins!