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Although the policy allows pregnant students to continue their education through home study courses provided by the school, Esman said it violates Title IX, which prohibits schools receiving federal funds from excluding students based on "pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy or recovery therefrom."
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Louisiana has one of the highest teen birth rates in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate, 54.1 births per 1,000 teens, was 12.6 points higher than the national average in 2008, the latest year for which data are available.
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"The best thing a school can do to prevent teen pregnancy is have a really comprehensive sex education program. If that's the school's goal, that's the way to do it."
Aside from this being illegal I don't see how the school thinks it is succeeding, by taking students and throwing them under the bus and jeopardizing their future. Instead of allowing schools to do this they should revoke the charters, convert it back to a public, and give them the appropriate tools they need to teach comprehensive sex education which is something those states with high teen pregnancy rates all seem to lack.
Aside from this being illegal I don't see how the school thinks it is succeeding, by taking students and throwing them under the bus and jeopardizing their future. Instead of allowing schools to do this they should revoke the charters, convert it back to a public, and give them the appropriate tools they need to teach comprehensive sex education which is something those states with high teen pregnancy rates all seem to lack.
The parents don't want their children to have comprehensive sex education. And they very likely DO want to kick out girls who might influence their children to be sexually active, but because they aren't allowed to do that, they'll settle for them being physically out of the school and away from their kids.
The parents don't want their children to have comprehensive sex education. And they very likely DO want to kick out girls who might influence their children to be sexually active, but because they aren't allowed to do that, they'll settle for them being physically out of the school and away from their kids.
Yes, it's pretty unfortunate. States like LA will continue ranking low when it comes to achievement and in the meantime they'll continue blaming schools and teachers.
Yes, it's pretty unfortunate. States like LA will continue ranking low when it comes to achievement and in the meantime they'll continue blaming schools and teachers.
The irony comes along when it is their daughter who has to go on home study.
Louisiana is funding vouchers for some pretty wacky schools. So things will be worse not better. Of course, some people withdrew their support when they figured out that Muslim schools could also apply.
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New Living Word has a top-ranked basketball team but no library. Students spend most of the day watching TVs in bare-bones classrooms. Each lesson consists of an instructional DVD that intersperses Biblical verses with subjects such as chemistry or composition.
The Upperroom Bible Church Academy in New Orleans, a bunker-like building with no windows or playground, also has plenty of slots open. It seeks to bring in 214 voucher students, worth up to $1.8 million in state funding.
At Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake, pastor-turned-principal Marie Carrier hopes to secure extra space to enroll 135 voucher students, though she now has room for just a few dozen.
Her first- through eighth-grade students sit in cubicles for much of the day and move at their own pace through Christian workbooks, such as a beginner’s science text that explains “what God made” on each of the six days of creation. They are not exposed to the theory of evolution. Heaven forbid, NO! Said Carrier: “We try to stay away from all those things that might confuse our children.”
Not illegal. Charter schools can set pretty much whatever rules they want. The student isn't being denied an education as she can return to her home school.
The irony comes along when it is their daughter who has to go on home study.
Oh yeah. They reap what they sow.
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Louisiana is funding vouchers for some pretty wacky schools. So things will be worse not better. Of course, some people withdrew their support when they figured out that Muslim schools could also apply.
For some reason I find myself not being surprised at this.
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Not illegal. Charter schools can set pretty much whatever rules they want. The student isn't being denied an education as she can return to her home school.
Outside of blatantly violating a law, invading someones privacy through a pregnancy test, and then denying someone access to equal education yeah it's legal. What's next? Corporate punishment? Policies that would target low SES students by suspending them for getting pregnant, not turning in their homework, or coming to school in dirty clothes and putting them in home study?
A charter school is like a private school - their lotteries often exclude kids with learning disabilities, they expell students back to their home school for rather minor infractions, and they generally operate in a bubble. Great if you're in a horrible school and have a child that is motivated to learn. Not typically for the child with "authority issues". They may disqualify themselves from federal funding for violating Title IX, but that doesn't mean they won't get the state and local funding.
Outside of blatantly violating a law, invading someones privacy through a pregnancy test, and then denying someone access to equal education yeah it's legal. What's next? Corporate punishment? Policies that would target low SES students by suspending them for getting pregnant, not turning in their homework, or coming to school in dirty clothes and putting them in home study?
Read up on what private schools, which is what a charter school is even though it's publicly funded, are allowed to do then come back.
All the scenarios you listed are within the realm of being permitted as a reason for removal from a charter school, as with any private school.
I love it when people who don't know their head from a hole in the ground pretend to know school law.
Read up on what private schools, which is what a charter school is even though it's publicly funded, are allowed to do then come back.
All the scenarios you listed are within the realm of being permitted as a reason for removal from a charter school, as with any private school.
I love it when people who don't know their head from a hole in the ground pretend to know school law.
I know what both a private and charter school is. At one point in my life, before I went into education I was for charter schools(which seems to be the trend for people not in education). I don't agree with the direction education reform(privatization) is heading in because of situations like this. Charter schools will do things like this to elevate it's status and fool parents into thinking that they've achieved some secret formula to achievement when in actuality they're dropping the ones they deem undesirable instead of giving them more individualized attention. In this persons case, the schools punishing her because she doesn't fit the backwards moral code of the local community. If LA wants to take a race to the bottom and depend more on other state revenues for social spending in the future then it can continue propping up these schools.
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