Gloucester High Gets Knocked Up
by Aaron Margolis, June 19th, 2008 at 12:40pm
When you are in high school, you try to keep up with the latest trends and fads in order to stay “hip” and “cool.” Typically this involves clothing, or recreational drug use, and of course sex. However, some 17 girls at Gloucester High School kicked it up a notch, and thought it would be super cool to make a pregnancy pact.
There’s a stunning twist to the sudden rise in teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School. 17 students there are expecting and, according to a published report, most of them became that way on purpose.
Time Magazine is reporting that nearly half of the girls confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. None of the girls is older than 16.
Principal Joseph Sullivan has not returned calls from WBZ to confirm the report.
Is there nothing else to do in Gloucester? Seriously? Are these girls just unhappy with their lives that they feel the need to bring a child into the mix and ruin another life, or are they just plain stupid?
Sullivan told the magazine that the pact wasn’t the only shocking incident.
“We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” he told Time.
I guess one girl doesn’t like guys who live with their parents. Good luck getting child support money from a guy whose greatest achievements are not dying in the gutter and sleeping with a girl 8 years his junior. Will she sue the homeless guy for his cardboard box and his collection of empty soda cans?
The jump in pregnancies has, of course, sparked the debate about distributing contraceptives in the school.
Last month, two top officials at the high school’s health center resigned in a fight over contraceptives distribution.
Medical Director Dr. Brian Orr and chief nurse practitioner Kim Daly support confidentially giving contraceptives to students. They were outraged about resistance from Addison Gilbert Hospital, which administers the state public health grant that funds the school clinic.
Perhaps Gloucester should consider a Prop. 2 1/2 override to provide free birth control–well, maybe not. Perhaps they need to revamp their sex education program.
Normally, the school has about four pregnancies per school year.
According to Time, school officials started looking into the spike in pregnancies after an unusual number of girls came to the school clinic for pregnancy tests. Some came by several times.
“Some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were,” Sullivan told the magazine.
So there you have it…these girls are just plain stupid. Good luck raising your bastard children. Can’t wait for my tax dollars to pay for your stupid mistake.
Entry Filed under: Education, Family Issues, Welfare
20 Comments Add your own
1. KtB | June 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Your final sentence sums my feelings up exactly. More dysfunctional ‘families’ and their progonies. Great.
2. Mr. X | June 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Howev, every dark cloud has a silver lining…fewer illegals needed if there are more homegrown…
3. crusader88 | June 20th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Another silver lining: they fornicated, but at least they didn’t contracept.
4. crystal | June 20th, 2008 at 8:00 am
wake up America. We are raising a nation of idiots!
5. TJ | June 20th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Neither sex education nor distributing condoms works in this case - when a group sets out to get pregnant, they’re NOT going to be using condoms, and apparently they’ve got all the sex ed. they need.
no, what is needed here is stiff penalties to be applied to the fathers. by definition, all 16 cases are statutory rape.
maybe that way, -somebody- will get a clue…
6. Voodoo Daddy | June 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Tj… how do we punish the mothers? They committed 1st degree pregnancy with premeditation. Granted, punishing the fathers is necessary, but beyond telling the future-mothers the pain of childbirth and the lifelong commitment of becoming a mother at 16 is their punishment, you got to do more than that.
Can the soon-to-be mothers be charged with statutory rape?
7. BigBish | June 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
We had a word for girls like this in High School - whores. Whores are whores and they can’t stay off thier backs. I could care less what happens to the lot of them
8. Chops | June 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Good Lord! Can’t we have a little bit of decency? Shocking, I know: teenagers make dumb decisions. The fact that some people made bigger mistakes than you or I doesn’t give us license to demonize them, as whores, fools or anything else.
Obviously, on a macro scale, we’d like policies and social norms to discourage this kind of thing. But when a pregnancy pact is big news, that means that it isn’t happening very much. So in this isolated case, let’s all go back to work and let these girls and their parents do the difficult work of raising their children.
The children are not a curse, not a problem, not even unplanned: they are people, and they’re going to take just as much attention and expense as any other children.
No doubt as well the teenagers in this case will get an education of their own that they didn’t quite bargain for. Where schools fail, life lessons can sometimes succeed - here’s praying they do.
9. BigBish | June 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
That was nice. Like a Hallmark card. Doesn’t make the little whores any less slutty. Here’s praying that they remember this little equation:
sperm+egg=baby
10. mojoe | June 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Chops said:
“So in this isolated case, let’s all go back to work and let these girls and their parents do the difficult work of raising their children.”
“…they are people, and they’re going to take just as much attention and expense as any other children.”
And “we the people” will end up paying for far too large a portion of that expense.
Nothing to see here, move along, just an isolated teen pregnancy pact.
11. NHradiofan | June 21st, 2008 at 12:54 am
Each these girls not only committed an incredible act of stupidity and selfishness, they also committed all of us to their care and support without our consent. I do not care to know why they decided to get pregnant. I just want to know why WE are expected to have money confiscated from our paychecks to support them and their offspring. Why are the rest of us the only responsible parties in this whole sordid affair. We are on the hook for child support, not the 24 year old homeless guy. Good luck gettting a dime out of these “fathers”.
At the very least, these girls should be charged with conspiracy to commit statutory rape and/or contributing to the delinquency of a minor (the minor being themselves). If a 15 year old who throws a keg party when his parents are out of town can be charged with contributing to the delinquency of underage drinkers at his house, why will these kids not deserve at least SOME legal trouble?
12. JCM | June 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Unfortunately the babies will end up suffering the most out of this while thing.
Feedings, potty training, temper tantrums, sleepless nights, the complete dependance of another human being on you not to mention the pain of labor, these girls have no idea what they are in for.
13. Mr. X | June 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Wow! With comments like these it’s wonder anyone has kids..what a bunch of selfish bastards..must be libertarians and listen to Jay Severin…did you hear Mr. Tough Guy cry all over the mike about Tim Russert? Made me puke over my radio. The ideology of selfishness (libertarians) is not to be confused with conservatism…libertarians are cave men and should stay where they belong… on GEICO commercials
14. punkypower | June 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Anyone see the promos for Baby Borrowers? It seems this show couldn’t come at a better time, unless of course it came before this happened. They need to educate teens of today that having babies is not as fun as they might think, it’s a lot of hard work and they’re clearly not ready for it before 16.
15. The Truth | June 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Whats done is done now, as a society we can try and figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it. I personally feel that this was an isolated case most likely caused by a combination of bad parenting and personal stupidity. I feel sorry for these young girls babies since they will most likely grow up in poverty and without a strong family. We have one solution to this problem and its called personal responsibility. If these girls were held accountable by their families and society, I doubt they would have done this. We all know they did it because they didn’t understand the consequences and probably never had anyone tell them what is right and wrong. Even though this is isolated, I think parents and students need to wake up and show their children the realities of adulthood. Most of these kids see a picture on TV and think its real when its not. As a society we should look down upon their actions and also work to show younger people what happens when you don’t think.
16. T | June 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 am
“So there you have it…these girls are just plain stupid. Good luck raising your bastard children. Can’t wait for my tax dollars to pay for your stupid mistake. ”
Since when is it cool to call another being especially a child a “stupid mistake”? Granted, this was definitley not a good idea. But where the hell do you get off bitching about your “tax dollars” “paying” for a “stupid mistake” when your same taxpaying dollars also funds state covered (Medicaid APPROVED) abortions, among other things. So is the real crime here in having a baby that people can see and know about of repeatedly getting pregnant and aborting due to promiscuity so that people DON’T know about it and can’t address the real problem of why these girls want to be promiscuous and feel the need to want to have babies. Obviously they need counseling and not ridicule, and these children need not to look back 30 years later and see people calling them “stupid mistakes” . Yeah, that does wonders for self esteem.
17. T | June 23rd, 2008 at 12:55 am
…So is the real crime here in having a baby that people can see and know about of OR repeatedly getting pregnant and aborting due to promiscuity so that people DON’T know about it and can’t address the real problem of why these girls want to be promiscuous and feel the need to want to have babies….
I left out the word “OR” in my other post.
KTB you also spelled “progeny” so wrong…fyi.. it doesn’t need to be pluralized… see? he we are griping about the fall of america because of teenage girls and johnny still cant read (or spell…) I guess that’s the poor babies’ fault too..
18. Amanda Rekonwith | June 23rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
My favorite comment from one of 15-year-old baby mamas was that her pregnant friends “party” (i.e. drink) “a lot less and are wicked responsible”. This said while she gestured with her cigarette. Do they know yet that they have morphed from subjects of pity to entertainment for those of us with compassion fatigue?
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20. Gus | July 7th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Everyone should be put on mandatory contraception and be licensed or given a permit
to conceive. This would take care of a lot of
“useless eaters” in society. Shocking? No!
We are only beginning to see food shortages world-wide.
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