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apparently a school girl feels like a lepper at school because she is pregnant

dont wanna sound cruel but if she thinks its hard been pregnant i wonder what she will make of having to look after a baby

only got her self to blame if you ask me :rolleyes:

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Herself plus one other to blame really.

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She certainly has my sympathies, both with the school and the forthcoming post natal ones, children can be very cruel and are easily led, at the end of the day she is left with the problem, what about the father?

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This is most unusual. From my understanding, half of all fourth-form girls are now at any one time pregnant. So what is so different about this kid?

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I bet she will feel even more of a leper now its become public knowledge, i wonder how many more parents will be telling their kids at that school to stay away from her now.

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I see that the the mother was in the picture with her and not the boyfriend!! all the school are doing are trying to 'save' themselves, in case she hurts herself, its her fault she pregnant not the school!

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her self and her partner are only to blame for whats happend

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I haven't read the telegraph tonight but maybe this is not a bad thing. If the other girls at her school see the way she is treated, it may act as a deterrent to them. The only way to reduce these teenage pregnancies is for parents to educate their children honestly about sex... The school is not responsible for this (unless she conceived in school:D ) There needs to be a degree of stigma... I never thought that I would actually say that but after our government's social experiments of giving them everything, our teenage pregnancy rate only seems to be increasing.

It may be that it is the girl and her parents who are left holding the baby but it is not the schools or the government's fault.....It's theirs and theirs alone. At least, these days, there are paternity tests which are accurate so that the male can take some of the flack. Hopefully, this girl and her family will learn their lesson and not let this happen again, to her or a sister.

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Unfortunately it's not. It is the State that ends up holding the baby and footing the bill. Tax payers like you and me will end up bailing out this little madam!
Society is becoming more and more like watching an episode of Channel 4's comedy series, "Shameless"!

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I have no sympathy for her at all its her own fault and the guys. Welcome to no live.

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Where did the other person in this sorry incedent run off to? If the state (ie us) pay for her and the baby then the chances are the father will be happy to draw benifits so that he dosnt have to pay money for this poor baby and he can go and sire some more. Its part of life that you have to take responsibility for their actions and the school can only do so much. The irony is that some of the girls handing out the hard time might be a tad jealous and therefore making her life hard.

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Apparently, according to the 'Telegraph'.....the pregnancy is the result of a 'long term relationship'...c'mon, she is 16 and the father of the baby is 17......what is the definition of 'long term'????

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http://www.lancashireeveningtelegrap...over_rules.php

Theres the link for it. What i think is that the school was right in keeping her away from the other kids when they are swapping classrooms - there will always be shoving in the school corridor. School dinner times - if shes in school then the teachers can keep an eye on her so if anything does go wrong and she became ill then the school can get help straight away.

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Just been reading that Jen.

Sounds like the school are damned if they do and damned if they don't. If the school hadn't put in precautions to keep her safe the mother would have been in the papers and probably sueing the school, should anything have happened to her. The school can't win really, can they.

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I think the school has behaved well.

As for the girl's mother taking her out of school because she was made to feel like a 'leper', now they are both pictured on the front page of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, I'm sure she'll feel so much better.....not!

As for Willow's comment that the girl is 16 and her boyfriend 17, and at least their relationship was 'legal', we can't know that, she may very well have concieved the child at 15.

Not the best of starts in life but good luck to them.

Let's just hope that in 16 years time the soon to be mother isn't on the front page for taking her child out of school for the same reason.

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it wouldnt surprise me if she was

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Shes 16 weeks pregnant and in her final year at school. She must have been 16 after 1st September. In this day and age people sue for the least bit of anything and so the school is covering itself so that it wont be sued. I think the school has done right. Have you ever been in a school corridor at change of lessons besides being at school. I have and i was squashed - and me being a visitor there! lol Kids dont file down the side of the corridor - they squash through the middle.

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If I was the parent of a pregnant daughter who was still at school, I would only kick up a fuss if the school didn't pay some regard to her safety, as Jen says by perhaps being protected from the hustle and bustle of the corridors.

If that makes her feel like a 'leper', the answer was perfectly simple...wait until you leave school before you have an effin' baby, you silly tart, and don't get yourself plastered all over the local press.

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With things like this your dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. I'd back the school, if she's got cobbiewobbles over it them I blame the mother for making it a issue.

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With all the education around today about unwanted pregancies either your the dumbest kid in school or you wanted it to happen. Now we will have another single parent family who won't be able to control their kids because they couldn't control themselves. When the kids old enough to make decsions the parent will be not much older. More chavs here they come.:rolleyes:

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Spot on Bazf. I think it’s the same arrogance that they have in the street over here now. They just too stupid to think straight and consider all the upheaval it can cause to others, their own families and the authorities.

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The headmaster should permit her back into school, stand her up on the stage in front of the the full school assembly and use her plight as an example to all the other children. The lesson being that they will end up in the same state if they behave like irresponsible slappers!