Quote Originally Posted by devochka
So this is another school than the one with the supposed pregnancy pact?
Yes, this is different then the school with the girls who had an "agreement" to get pregnant. When I had lunch with my older daughter today and mentioned to her that I had posted this her first question was "How many are from the same boy?"

Quote Originally Posted by devochka
When I was in high school, I think maybe only a couple of girls got pregnant.
Same here. There was one my junior year and one my senior year (or at least that is all I knew of as I skipped my senior year).

Quote Originally Posted by devochka
Is the teen pregnancy rate as high in the rest of the US? I mean, not 1 in 7 of course, but higher than average (although I wouldn't know what average is).
Good question! I am not certain and I don't know if the "average" changes depending upon the area of the country. Say a big city like Chicago or small town rural areas.

Quote Originally Posted by devochka
They are part of our biology classes and later on of our religion classes too (to learn a healthy approach towards relationships).
Interesting! Now did you attend a public school or private school?

As my girls attend public school, religion can't be taught and that is also why parents can opt their kids out of the program. As that class also covers birth control and as that is a religious choice, parents have the right to pull them out. There was a BIG battle here in our county over a video that showed the children how to correctly place a ummm protective device shall I say on a certain part of the male. Their was NO actual male parts being shown! Yet the idea of kids being informed that they had choices INSTEAD of abstinence was the problem.

Also the issue of teaching that "families" can be made up of not just a male and a female as in "Why does Susie have two moms?" was a hot topic in that curriculum.