That was her choice. She could have eliminated the problem and marched in the ceremony. She chose otherwise and must accept the consequences.
I'm not concerned about any message the school should be sending. Their message is quite clear, don't get pregnant. Don't like it? Don't attend that school.
I mean if she had chosen to get an abortion, she would still be in all her offices and walking at graduation. So basically they are telling the next girl to get an abortion before anyone finds out.
I became pregnant at the end of my junior year in high school. My parents were told by an administrator that if I "happened to not be pregnant after summer break" then I would be allowed to continue in the program
If she had been caught vandalizing property or blatantly refused to follow dress code or had deliberately harmed someone or had been caught dealing drugs on campus, the consequences would have been the same if not harsher.
Teen pregnancy may be more common but that doesn't mean it's actually a positive thing and how hard is it to keep your legs closed for 4 years?
Codes of conduct are worthless unless they are universally applied.
This girl is getting a harsher punishment because her "mistake" is visible and can be an embarrassment to the school's lily clean image.
That is wrong. This girl is going to face a lifetime of troubles and uphill battles because of a decision she made. That she earned her degree anyway is commendable considering the backlash I'm sure she faced in the school.
Punishing the mother is despicable and is not in line with the Christianity I practice.
IF they punished the pot smokers and the drinkers and the other sexually active the way they are punishing her, that would be fine. But instead they are making her wear her scarlet letter of shame because her "mistake" is visible and hurts their image.
That isn't true according to this story. Other teens were caught having premarital sex, and just received a one day suspension. The act and the violation were LITERALLY the same.
This is coming from a woman who has had 1 sexual partner her entire life (my DH). Wow. Teens have hormones raging through them and do not have fully developed judgment. It is exceptionally hard for many to resist the temptation. She was hardly the only senior who "couldn't keep her legs closed". She's the only one being burned at the stake for it.
I agree that the school should more evenly apply the code of conduct but you realize that if they did that, it would not improve her situation?
The controversy is that students break the honor code all the time, but their "sins" are exempt from this severe a consequence.
Is there another article showing the school knows which other students are having premarital sex? The article in the OP doesn't.That isn't true according to this story. Other teens were caught having premarital sex, and just received a one day suspension. The act and the violation were LITERALLY the same.
Is there another article showing the school knows which other students are having premarital sex? The article in the OP doesn't.
I couldn't find anything specifically noting that. However, her father was apparently on the school's board and was previously someone who voted on disciplinary cases. He apparently knows that there were some more egregious violations of the school's student code that weren't punished as severely as not allowing a student's presence at graduation. And on top of that a graduating class of 14?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...798cbc-4090-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html
Strangely enough, she's going to Bob Jones University. Their student code probably makes her previous school's code look tame.
That was her choice. She could have eliminated the problem and marched in the ceremony. She chose otherwise and must accept the consequences.
I'm not concerned about any message the school should be sending. Their message is quite clear, don't get pregnant. Don't like it? Don't attend that school.
She may not be accepted there much longer since this has gone national.
I dunno. The code supposedly applies to actions that happen while one is a student, and right now there's a certain aspect of her carrying to term that might even be considered a plus.
However, I don't know about how anyone can really live with all the requirements there. I heard about some of the requirements they have in their student handbook. Apparently students can be punished for watching anything other than G movies.
Yeah I just know that any school can remove admissions and the fact that she has taken this all to the media an even stricter school may no longer see her as a good canadiate.
I couldn't find anything specifically noting that. However, her father was apparently on the school's board and was previously someone who voted on disciplinary cases. He apparently knows that there were some more egregious violations of the school's student code that weren't punished as severely as not allowing a student's presence at graduation. And on top of that a graduating class of 14?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...798cbc-4090-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html
Strangely enough, she's going to Bob Jones University. Their student code probably makes her previous school's code look tame.