Marilyn what a gwaan?

[evanovitch]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I knew I would draw you out!!! </div></div>

heh heh... heh heh

[lonewolf]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> can't account for it. For 9 years I was the counselor at the school set aside for pregnant female students. You didn't have to go , it was optional. If you chose to go there you got free day care, but you had to bring your child to school, because the daycares were learning labs meant to help make you a better mother (if one just must be one too young). If you were a 5th or 6th grade girl, they promoted you to 7th grade and sent you over there to me, because they didn't want them PG in elementary school with the other little kids. So getting pregnant in elementary school would automatically make you a junior high student.

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That's just great.....Yep, let's reward bad behaviour. There's no deterent, why wouldn't they get pregnant?

[CyberPhobic]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

Juss crazy on a whole lotta levels.

Every year, every generation. Mi nuh kno what can be done. Inna di land of opportunities all dese peeple can do is breed and breed. Inna di land of no opportunities, a di sayme ting. Breed, breed, breed.

Mattaz nat if dem have odda tings fi do yes or no a bay breed dem can find interestin fi do.

Why di problem widdi manz dem whe need fi be castratid not gettin enny attenshan doe?

Di issue is dat nobady naaah address di dutty dawg dem whe too ole fi nuh kno betta. A dem a prey pan di vulnerable homone screaming yung gurlz dem.

[kia027]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lonrwolf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> can't account for it. For 9 years I was the counselor at the school set aside for pregnant female students. You didn't have to go , it was optional. If you chose to go there you got free day care, but you had to bring your child to school, because the daycares were learning labs meant to help make you a better mother (if one just must be one too young). If you were a 5th or 6th grade girl, they promoted you to 7th grade and sent you over there to me, because they didn't want them PG in elementary school with the other little kids. So getting pregnant in elementary school would automatically make you a junior high student.

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That's just great.....Yep, let's reward bad behaviour. There's no deterent, why wouldn't they get pregnant?

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What is the reward you see here? They get to go to a special school and learn life skills to be a better parent. Is that the reward you are referring to?

[Gen]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

being &quot;allowed&quot; to go to 7th grade (while a 5th/6th grader) when you probably weren't doing any work to begin with saka yuh a try ketch man and now have belly

while the other students who were working hard watied the entire year to take and pass their exams before being allowed to go on to 7th

unless mi reading wrong

[kia027]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">being &quot;allowed&quot; to go to 7th grade (while a 5th/6th grader) when you probably weren't doing any work to begin with saka yuh a try ketch man and now have belly

while the other students who were working hard watied the entire year to take and pass their exams before being allowed to go on to 7th

unless mi reading wrong </div></div>

help me understand: so the 5th/6th grader who was barely getting by, by merely having a belly gets the intellectual capability to perform at a 7th grade level now? or it is only in the parenting classes dem can pass can stay in 7th (1st form) and repeat it till dem memorize the exams to pass?

[Marilyn]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">being &quot;allowed&quot; to go to 7th grade (while a 5th/6th grader) when you probably weren't doing any work to begin with saka yuh a try ketch man and now have belly

while the other students who were working hard watied the entire year to take and pass their exams before being allowed to go on to 7th

unless mi reading wrong </div></div>

help me understand: so the 5th/6th grader who was barely getting by, by merely having a belly gets the intellectual capability to perform at a 7th grade level now? or it is only in the parenting classes dem can pass can stay in 7th (1st form) and repeat it till dem memorize the exams to pass? </div></div>

It has nothing to do with intellect and performance. The practice is only done to get the elementary child away and out of the view of the other elementary students for safety of all concerned and not to be offensive (or impressionable or IMPRESSIVE) to smaller chidlren. Remember, that now pregnant 5th or 6th grader is in the same buidling with kingergarten and 1,2,3,4, graders, not a good thing at all. It is not meant to &quot;reward&quot; the pregnant child, it is more to protect those around them.

In some cases this child is age appropriate for elementary school but just early menustrating, therefore capable of pregnancy. In some caeses , then are stil in elementrary school, but older due to failures in lower grades. In most of these cases they were usually preyed upon by someone older. Some of these pregnancies are a result of rape or incest in the family.

[kia027]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

Marilyn

What happens to the 5th/6th graders who then get promoted to 7th. Are they now doing 7th grade work or do they have 5th grade work to do given their age/circumstances.

I hear you on the early menses thing because it is a trend where girls and they say particularly black girls are hitting puberty earlier which has many implications, the worse being an early pregnancy

[evanovitch]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

does it really matter if they r separated out at school wen the home .neighbourhoods etc where they come from, go home to, an get their real socialization, those areas r packed with the evidence of the early pregnancies...not decrying the method of putting them apart so as to address their new issues in addition to their education, but how realistic is it to think schools can effect and affect children's behaviour wen teacher cannot deal wid a recalcitrant student cause dat student wi cuss u out but gawd help di teacher if dem hangle dat student

i guess wat i am getting at is ,the said community that seh dont parent my child should not now expect school to explain r make better high pregnancy rates in said chillums...

an wid a dawtas n moddas being pregnant at di said time n if u no careful even grandmodda , wat really is the answer but personal responsibility...

i mean do those 9 women on Maury really believe Tyrone can care for all nine children as they insist that is all dem want from him

[Marilyn]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Marilyn

What happens to the 5th/6th graders who then get promoted to 7th. Are they now doing 7th grade work or do they have 5th grade work to do given their age/circumstances.

I hear you on the early menses thing because it is a trend where girls and they say particularly black girls are hitting puberty earlier which has many implications, the worse being an early pregnancy </div></div>

Well at that particular school , the girl was then doing 7th grade work, but they would have to try very hard to fail. The school was very small and focused with some of the most excellent, loving, patient and caring teachers I have ever known, the day care is bar none , the best I have ever seen with a staff that is beyond compare, and the principal. well let's just put her up for sainthood.

The girls have no boys to distract them, no activites, sock hops, dances, sports activities, so all they do is focus on their lessons and learning how to be some kind of mother at that age. Actually you will see some of them improving light years in their studies and progressing well. SOme make honor roll for the first time ever.

I distinctly remember two girls I adjusted two grades up due to their ages, and they then went into a competition to see who could keep the highest GPA, so the two of them varied from a 4.0 to a 3.8 ever six weeks in their new grades, making honor roll every six weeks for the first time in their lives.

I found becoming a young mother a make or break experience for some girls. Honestly is made some of them better people as they realized they had another life to account for, while others it overwhelmed.

That school is still in operation now and working on the work everyday.

[Marilyn]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

Kia,
Also LOL at your avatar

[SistahD]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

Hey Marilyn... just dropped in to give a little hug!

[Marilyn]

Re: Marilyn what a gwaan?

Hi Sistah,back at cha

[Skelly]

Memphis Teen Moms Update

When word of one Tennessee high school having 90 teen moms this school year hit the news, the internet exploded with comments and questions. Due to all of the media attention, the Memphis School Superintendent held a press conference to clear up some common misconceptions about the situation at Frayser High and to update everyone on new initiatives to address the teen pregnancy issue.
According to Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash, the reason there are so many teen moms at the school is because pregnant teens seek out the school. The former principal Dr. Cassandra Turner started a program last year that specifically targets pregnant teens and teens who already have children. Dr. Turner says 35 pregnant teens have transferred to Frayser High.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton spoke during the press conference as well as Meri Amour, President and CEO of Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, which has a mentoring and training program for teen boys.
“We hope that our story and our united response will be an inspiration to other community leaders and groups,” said Mayor Wharton as he pledged to aggressively combat the teen pregnancy issue.
Now that you know the high school in question has a teen pregnancy program, are you any less outraged at there being 90 teen moms at the one high school?

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-superintendent-speaks-out-on-school-pregnancies-story,0,1671068.story

[Gen]

Re: Memphis Teen Moms Update

What's the superintendent point ? 35 transferred that mean seh 55 are from that hs originally