Many pregnant teenagers in the Central Valley are highly motivated to graduate from high school and continue their education, but some schools make the task more difficult – and violate federal law–- by funneling expectant and parenting students into alternative schools and denying them access to college-track classes, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
The report takes aim at the stereotype of the pregnant teen who loses interest in school and drops out. Instead, the report said, schools often place barriers in the way of pregnant teenagers by penalizing them for missing classes for pregnancy-related medical reasons, shaming them for being pregnant and failing to provide breast-feeding and other accommodations called for under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to http://edsource.org/2015/report-urges-schools-to-do-more-for-pregnant-students/74614#.VOPbCPnF-5V]
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