1 in 5 part 2

I wrote about this yesterday. As did Mr. W.

I cannot tell you the number of pregnant (and unmarried) girls in the school. I know that there are many with children.

Their friends celebrate with them - although they are making a choice which will make their lives (and those of their children) harder.

I listen to the boys talk about hos. And the girls act like this is ok.

I listen to the ones who give me the hardest time - because I am disrespectful to them (I ask them to follow the rules, how dare I) - and know they live in single parent homes with siblings with different last names and I know that they will perpetuate their lifestyle with their children.

And I do not know how to change it.

Make Adams writes about the level of college students he receives but I know he gets the best of what we have. (I know the dialogue was made up. There were no F bombs or N words in what he wrote. And the students cannot talk without this.)

One of the teachers I had in high school used to compare the last names of his students with the last names of their parents. And in the 1970s most matched.

I do that and it is less than half.

Do you ever look at the last names of your students? Or how many parents are in the home?