Sentences with phrase «pregnant girl in our school»

These are the same new friends who were talking later that week, with horrified whispers, about a pregnant girl in our school.

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In addition to the academic losses, not showing up to school increases the chances a girl will drop out of school entirely, contract HIV and get pregnant.

It might be good to use the dolls in high schools to show girls that age what they would get into if they got pregnant.

Another girl called Janet in Freetown, who got pregnant at the age of 11, said however that she is «done with schooling, and fears going back to be harassed by friend and foe alike.»

Over 5,000 school girls, who were pregnant during the 18 - month - long Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, have now been placed into both primary and secondary schools nationwide, an official has said.

The government then set up some 710 remedial centers to provide temporary alternative classes where all pregnant girls who opted to continue their schooling were tuitioned in basic core subjects.

30 primary and Junior High School (JHS) girls in the Daffiama - Bussie - Issa district in the Upper West region are currently pregnant.

Based on a novel by African - American writer Sapphire and set in 1980s Harlem, the film stars Gabourney Sidibe as Claireece «Precious» Jones, an obese 16 - year - old girl who is suspended from school when it's discovered she's pregnant.

A friend in the legal profession shares stories of a boss telling women associates not to mess up their career prospects by getting pregnant; a friend in medicine tells a story of a doctor saying, in an aside, that a young Hispanic girl should have graduated from high school instead of «having a litter»; a friend in business shares a story of colleagues mixing up the name of two African American associates, then saying «Well, they're basically the same person.»

From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural shift.

I asked the school district to let our school health center offer birth control after four girls became pregnant in one semester.

In my day, there were no special provisions for pregnant girls to continue attending school, no motherhood classes for teenagers, and only illegal, dangerous, back - alley solutions to ending pregnancies.

Pregnant girls have been barred from school activities, pressured to enroll in alternative schools and shunned by their peers.

One study found that in African American families (but not European American families), children who lived with stepfathers were less likely to drop out of high school or (among daughters) have a nonmarital birth.41 Similarly, a study of African Americans living in high - poverty neighborhoods found that girls living with their mothers and stepfathers were less likely than girls living with single mothers to become sexually active or pregnant.