Gloucester High School girls took a pact to raise their children together. So a whole bunch of them made the decision to go out and do the best to get pregnant. The article says 17 succeeded but I heard another teenager was successful at getting pregnant. Where the hell were mom and dad? What the hell did the school’s medical staff do when these girls kept coming to them and asking for pregnancy tests? If they never told the parents, why not? This is truly a sad story…

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2008/06/20/pregnancy-pact-at-ma...ol-concerns-parents/

“Officials at Massachusetts’ Gloucester High School were at a loss to explain why the teen pregnancy rate at their school had more than quadrupled over the past year. According to a report in the new issue of Time magazine, the dramatic increase is due, in part, to a pact among 17 girls from the school, none older than 16, who vowed to get pregnant and raise their children together.”

I don’t know which kids I feel sorrier for… the schoolgirls or the fetuses.

Human nature and the desire to be loved or have someone to love trumps "just say no" sex ed or free condoms any day.

Brings back memories of high school, no doubt.

How about the fathers of the babies. I'd be curious as to how old they were. I heard some where over 20. I also seen that school has a daycare for the students who already have kids. It makes me wonder if the daycare at the school was a factor in these young kids decision making. Do we know anyone on here whose taxes pay for this "progress"??

I think one factor is parental disassociation. I also think that there are some statutory rape charges pending here as some of these young ladies are under 16 years of age. It will be interesting how this plays out with the school in denial and the police damned no matter how they approach it.

John, if reports are correct, one of the men was a homeless man. The man was little more than a sperm donor to the girls. Of course, to the criminal justice system, they will be label as criminals and the girls… well, I won’t say as to not start an entire new topic. But rest assured, somehow they will be erroneously labeled as victims



Pat, the school principles and policy makers will skate because of the ‘progressive’ policies of Massachusetts. The cops will do what they can but it won’t be enough. The parents of the pregnant teens will sue someone… maybe the school system. The taxpayers will donate to the raising of these conceived children. And the girls…they ultimately got what they all wanted.

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I think one factor is parental disassociation. I also think that there are some statutory rape charges pending here as some of these young ladies are under 16 years of age. It will be interesting how this plays out with the school in denial and the police damned no matter how they approach it.

The school has little to deny, they were handing out free pregnancy test to all these girls from the school clinic. That's how they found out there was so many of them pregnant.

But on the bright side their children will be safe from transfats and quite possibly won't be allowed on an ATV until their fifteenth birthday.

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John, if reports are correct, one of the men was a homeless man. The man was little more than a sperm donor to the girls. Of course, to the criminal justice system, they will be label as criminals and the girls… well, I won’t say as to not start an entire new topic. But rest assured, somehow they will be erroneously labeled as victims



Pat, the school principles and policy makers will skate because of the ‘progressive’ policies of Massachusetts. The cops will do what they can but it won’t be enough. The parents of the pregnant teens will sue someone… maybe the school system. The taxpayers will donate to the raising of these conceived children. And the girls…they ultimately got what they all wanted.

Those girls are victims!!!

They grew up in a socialist state...went to liberal schools and were indoctrinated into believing they are entitled for life.

Why would you expect them to act responsible?.... if they have never been taught about responsibility and accountability they have no real way to understand the error of their decision.

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John, if reports are correct, one of the men was a homeless man. The man was little more than a sperm donor to the girls. Of course, to the criminal justice system, they will be label as criminals and the girls… well, I won’t say as to not start an entire new topic. But rest assured, somehow they will be erroneously labeled as victims



Pat, the school principles and policy makers will skate because of the ‘progressive’ policies of Massachusetts. The cops will do what they can but it won’t be enough. The parents of the pregnant teens will sue someone… maybe the school system. The taxpayers will donate to the raising of these conceived children. And the girls…they ultimately got what they all wanted.

Those girls are victims!!!

They grew up in a socialist state...went to liberal schools and were indoctrinated into believing they are entitled for life.

Why would you expect them to act responsible?.... if they have never been taught about responsibility and accountability they have no real way to understand the error of their decision.

It's sad thing for these young kids. I was just watching FNC and Jamie Colby was interviewing a girl that graduated from that school a while back. She also got pregnant and was happy about having the daycare center at the high school. That has me asking is it just that school in Mass or do other schools have this problem. Maybe I'm out of touch but free pregnancy tests, birth control and day care in high school....something about this pic seems dreadfully wrong??

http://wbztv.com/local/Gloucester.teen.pregnancy.2.754440.html

The latest about this claptrap. The School Dept and Mayor most definetly in "emergency mode #1, Cover thy A$$" gear.

If I was the principal I'd have a "foggy memory" as well because they know a witch hunts on and they are the #1 target.

Does it REALLY matter if there was a "pregnancy pact" or not???

Ya got 18 underage girls in your High School pregnant, "pact" or not. And I find it REALLY HARD to believe that this all went on and nobody knew about it and nobody was chatting about it in the schools hallways and at lunch time, and all the forms of electronic communication available today.

And that includes not only the student body but the teachers as well.

And I'm sure that the parents of these little darlings are out for school system blood as well. Its gonna be somebodys fault, but it ain't gonna be theirs.

I see at least one movie, 10 book deals(following suit of our Governor), and 18 lawsuits coming out of this-JRC

if the school had a gun club and some of the members came in one day and shot 20 ppl would you be so blaming the school for the deaths....or blaming the students themselves? i see a double standard by some on here. you blame the school when it fits your agenda.

pachesma,

Not to defend the principal but a gag was placed on her immediately by the Mayor who is in stage 29 denial.

In MA we have a law Chapter 119: Section 51A which makes mandated reporters of certain professions. Educators and nurses are included. Somebody other than the statutory rapists have some serious explaining to do.

Sac, many schools give out birth control without parental notification. Some schools conduct pregnancy test on students without informing the parents of what the kids are up to. So, the parents might be raising their children without the necessary information. The school is hiding this needed information from them. So, the school is a component in this situation but not the only one to blame.

If there was a gun club, the parent would know that their kids were part of that club. And I don’t see a gun club going crazy. Normally they understand the proper use and safety issues with firearms. And the school would make sure that the parents knew their kids were in a gun club.

YOU WIN THIS ROUND MR DIS....but i'll be back......

A lot of schools have gun clubs only the school administration doesn't know it. I'd love to know how many guns go to school each day.

Sac, now my head is going to swell all up! My hat won’t fit. Man, I ain’t used to this!!

Pat, one gun in the hands of children in schools is too many. But I believe that fully qualified teachers should carry as they can stop violent kids from killing many innocent people!

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Pat, one gun in the hands of children in schools is too many. But I believe that fully qualified teachers should carry as they can stop violent kids from killing many innocent people!

Great now I'll have to wear my Kevlar to work. I disagree that more guns in the school would make the place safer. Try this scenario. There is a report of a man with a gun on campus. the campus police and the local and State Police respond. They come upon a man with a gun pointing it into a classroom or at what appears to be a student. Under the active shooter guidelines the first arriving officers are now trained to take out the subject. Shots are fired, the man with the gun is killed and all is well. Or, we just shot one of the teachers we did not recognize and he was pointing the gun at the bad guy.

I think better and quicker reaction by LE as well as lock down and evacuation procedures on the part of schools will save way more lives than teachers with guns.

I never carry on campus even though, by law, I can.

Hey Hooligan,

Yeah, due to the parents of one of our granddaughters I am sadly acquainted with Chapter 51, mandated reporters and the Mass state agency of agencies, The Massachusetts Dept of Social Services(DSS).

Chapter 51, mandated reporters, and DSS is collectively the biggest load of horse manure this state could possibly throw at its citizens.

Chapter 51 essentially creates and "mandates" mandated reporters. Mandated reporters are pretty much anyone in the state who through their profession have any kind of dealings with children. Lawyers, nurses, Doctors, child care providers, teachers, school guidancecounselors, ANYONE who in the course of their job deals with chldren.

If they see, hear of, or in any other way, shape, or form hear ofa child at risk or being abused or neglected, they are mandated by state law to notify the appropriate authorities.

And "appropriate authority" is where the problem is. That authority in the state of Massachusetts is DSS, the states child protective agency. And that is the ONLY "appropriate authority" in the state.

And the ONLY thing DSS social workers care about at the end of the day is having more files in their little "out" box than they do in their "in" box.

DON'T CARE how they get there, DON'T CARE if they did a good investigation or not(if they even bother ta do one), all they care about is how quickly they can stamp "UNSUPPORTED" on the case file and they are done.

They teach the parents how to lie, scheme, and "get over" on the system under the theory if they teach 'em that the 1st time around then they won't even have to bother the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th time they are called back to "investigate" allegations made by some mandated reporter.

In my house we don't call it DSS, we call it "The Dead Baby Patrol"-JRC

Maybe they should expand the territory around schools (gun free zones) and give bigger penalties similar to what they do for dealing drugs in a school zone.

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And the ONLY thing DSS social workers care about at the end of the day is having more files in their little "out" box than they do in their "in" box.

DON'T CARE how they get there, DON'T CARE if they did a good investigation or not(if they even bother ta do one), all they care about is how quickly they can stamp "UNSUPPORTED" on the case file and they are done.

They teach the parents how to lie, scheme, and "get over" on the system under the theory if they teach 'em that the 1st time around then they won't even have to bother the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th time they are called back to "investigate" allegations made by some mandated reporter.

In my house we don't call it DSS, we call it "The Dead Baby Patrol"-JRC

Amen to all of that, dude! The Louisiana version of this is called the Office of Community Services (OCS). My wife and I have been foster parents for years, and the case workers we have to deal with are the most incompetent, lazy, dishonest people on Earth. As long as at the end of the day, the children are back with their parents, they don't care if the kids are still in danger. They just want to be able to say they "reunited the family", so they can keep their records looking good. And, they don't care how much they have to lie in order to make this happen.

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My wife and I have been foster parents for years,

Then God Bless ya both, Meat, theres a special place in heaven for you both.

In M*******; and according to DSS, as grandparents we have "zero legal standing" in our grandchildrens lives. And thats straight from a DSS employee that works in the DSS ombudsmans office. They are allowed to operate "in secret" with no oversight from any other state agency. And there IS NOT a thing you can do about it!!!-JRC

And to add, even if DSS had been called by a mandated reporter at the Gloucester School system, donuts to dollars the outcome woulda been EXACTLY the same. Except the expectant Mothers would probably already be on welfare and MASSHEALTH