todays telegraph headline - Page 2

shillelagh · 22-11-2006, 21:19

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.

Tinkerbelle · 22-11-2006, 21:33

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.

garinda · 22-11-2006, 22:20

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.

flashy · 22-11-2006, 22:35

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Originally Posted by garinda

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.

it wouldnt surprise me if she was

shillelagh · 22-11-2006, 22:55

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.

garinda · 22-11-2006, 22:59

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

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.

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.

Doug · 22-11-2006, 23:00

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.

Bazf · 22-11-2006, 23:32

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.

Doug · 22-11-2006, 23:44

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.

WillowTheWhisp · 22-11-2006, 23:45

Now that I've read the article itself I can see that I misunderstood the opening post. I thought the girl was complaining that being pregnant made her feel like a lepar, not that the school taking care for her safety was the cause of it. Actually the more I read and think about it, it doesn't sound like she got too stressed until her mother decided to take her out of school and kick up a fuss.

As for her age when she conceived. I was doing a touch of the Miss Marple's and trying to work it out going off how far into the school year we are and if she's 16 now when she must have turned 16 in order to be in the year etc. I suppose I could be wrong.

Anyway more to the point I think the school should be commended for caring about her safety and if she'd wanted to be treated like all her non-pregnant friends the answer to that would have been not to get pregnant in the frst place. Now I suppose if she has a miscarriage the mother will blame the school for causing stress.

Sparkologist · 23-11-2006, 17:51

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!