Schools for pregnant girls to close
Don’t know why, but pretty much every part of this article makes me throw up in my mouth just a little bit.
A dozen girls, some perched awkwardly with their pregnant bellies flush against the desks, were struggling over a high school geometry assignment on a recent afternoon.
No pencils, no textbooks, no Pythagorean theorem. Instead, they sewed quilts.
That is what passes for math in one of New York City’s four high schools for pregnant girls, this one in Harlem. “It ties into geometry,” said Patricia Martin, the principal. “They’re cutting shapes.”
May 24th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Hmm…I’m not sure I could ever pass that type of geometry. Hand/eye coordination not so much.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Do they make them remove their shoes before Home Ec class?