Should a Charter School Be Able to Require Students to Take a Pregnancy Test?

by Fox Report with Shepard Smith Posted 2012/08/08 15:00:00

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Michelle 2012/08/08 23:53:32 (edited)

No

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That's ridiculous and demeaning to women. Are they also going to test if the boys have fathered babies?

That's between the girl, her family, the father, and her doctors. Furthermore, this accomplishes nothing but informing the school that the girl is pregnant-- which is irrelevant. Government funded schools that kick girls out if they fail the test are refusing to provide a girl the education she has a right to get?
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pig soda 2012/08/09 19:33:45 (edited)

No

But they should have special sex rooms. Its great exercise and lets face it some of the fat kids could do with it lol...

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Shadow13 2012/08/09 19:26:35

No

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Further proof of the fraudulent myths of success of these corrupt institutions. Pregnant, disabled, poor, issues, or just a little too dumb? They'll drop you back into people capable and willing to assist you. Charter schools rig their evaluations and then flout the fraudulent results of flawed evaluations.

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wpsark_BN_0 2012/08/09 19:25:37 (edited)

No

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no way..It's not the school's job to perform pregnancy tests on the tax payer dime. WTF? Charter schools are still public schools. not to mention that it's none of their business...

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readmylips 2012/08/09 19:19:02

Yes

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If you can't follow the rules go elsewhere. Why do you go to a charter school.? Usually because they have rules set in place that are followed. My opinion. When entering a private school, parents are usually asked to sign that they will abide by the rules...not enroll in order to change the rules 'cause their darling little one is above abiding bythe rules.

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Greg 2012/08/09 19:14:15

Yes

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Depends on what is meant by charter. If it a completely private school, then yes. A government funded school, then no, but those shouldn't exist in the first place.

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Any to Greg 2012/08/10 01:52:33

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Charter schools do receive public money so they are not considered private schools.

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xcide13 2012/08/09 19:05:56

No

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Just guessing, but isn't that an invasion of privacy?

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Deep007 to xcide13 2012/08/10 01:55:13

No...it not...its weeding out undesirables....like you

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xcide13 to Deep007 2012/08/10 14:21:43

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Son, i scored in the top 96% in the nation on my SATs and aced every standardized test the state had. There isn't a public school in the nation that wouldn't LOVE to have had me as a student.

Its the morons such as yourself that need to be weeded out.

Carry on, fool.

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Melizmatic to xcide13 2012/08/10 16:13:53

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Just ignore the troll and it goes away.

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xcide13 to Melizmatic 2012/08/11 16:16:29

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Apparently...

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Deep007 to xcide13 2012/08/11 20:10:59

Public schools SUCK....so what..its all BS and indoctrination and you have learned that well

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xcide13 to Deep007 2012/08/12 05:23:32

What would you like to discuss? There is not a subject in which you can compete. I have outperformed private school students in every academic competition in which i have participated. So what is it?

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Deep007 to xcide13 2012/08/13 12:43:16

Haaahaaaahaaa....
Well FOOL... you about to get yer ass kicked now...
Why did Thomas Jefferson resign as Secretary of State

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xcide13 to Deep007 2012/08/18 05:01:32

My apologies, i had an accident...so how would you rather compete?

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Rave 2012/08/09 18:51:10

No

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Because, why would they? Honestly, apart from invading a young girl's privacy there's no other reason for it. Girls will tell their parents or school when they are ready for it.

Unless they also want to test for other medical problems, which would apply to both boys and girls. Why is pregnancy specifically being targeted?

Are there really that many pregnant teens in the US? Over where I live, you don't even hear of such a concept as teen pregnancy, not really. And it's not like they aren't having sex either.

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bpf 2012/08/09 18:13:44 (edited)

Yes

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If its a private than you can go else where, in early years 50's, 60's if a student got pregnant the school would take her out of school until she had the baby and that was it.... what's going to be next students demanding to be allowed breast feeding in the class room because they couldn't control their hormones?

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Monty to bpf 2012/08/09 18:30:49

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omg,i never thought of that

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xcide13 to bpf 2012/08/09 19:06:48

Aren't charter schools public?

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Melizmatic to xcide13 2012/08/09 22:21:02

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Sort of.

They're partially funded by state taxes, but not entirely.

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xcide13 to Melizmatic 2012/08/10 14:22:20

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The charter school my wife taught at for 10 years was entirely state funded.

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Melizmatic to xcide13 2012/08/10 15:50:57

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Interesting.

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Any to bpf 2012/08/10 01:53:24

It also used to be that pregnant women were stoned to death. Golly gee, what happened to the good ol' days?

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stevegtexas@aol.com 2012/08/09 18:11:22

Not sure

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Should a Charter School Be Able to Require Students to Take a Pregnancy Test?

by Shepard Smith PostedAugust 08, 2012......Why would they want to do that.....other than trying to find out if someones pregnant, the obvious answer.....whats the underlying reason? (does the school feel it might be a, "blemish" on their reputation? you really got to wonder if society is headed towards a, "lack of freedom of speech" and less communication? why, really? why?

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Riobhca 2012/08/09 18:11:06

No

This is not an area that the school should be sticking its nose into. And just how do they judge which students are to be tested? It's too subjective and an invasion of their privacy.

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MarcusRP 2012/08/09 17:58:39

No

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That's awfully personal.

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overdog001 2012/08/09 17:55:20

No

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Unless it can be proven that the child is spreading a disease of some kind, it is absolutely unacceptable for any school to have any say at all over any child's medical business.

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Stacie 2012/08/09 17:53:36

No

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A Pregnancy is a medical condition, and hence is covered under HIPA privacy restrictions.

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Melizmatic to Stacie 2012/08/09 22:21:42

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"They's gonna" get sued... a lot.

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Stacie to Melizmatic 2012/08/10 16:55:23

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Sure are. :)

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Libertys Martyr 2012/08/09 17:52:16

No

Not if it's a public school.

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Katfish 2012/08/09 17:40:02

Yes

Private schools should be able to chose who they accept/keep as well as families having the choice to attend.

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Chocola... to Katfish 2012/08/09 17:57:18

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It's technically a public school.

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Katfish to Chocola... 2012/08/09 18:11:40

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I stand corrected. They should be more privatized then...

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Chocola... to Katfish 2012/08/09 22:37:13

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Yeah they should.

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xcide13 to Katfish 2012/08/09 19:08:11

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I'm not sure about all charter schools but i know some are public...and funded by the State.

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Katfish to xcide13 2012/08/09 20:06:44

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Yeah, according to the bit of research I did since my first comment, they arent nearly as private as I thought.

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xcide13 to Katfish 2012/08/10 14:23:22

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Yeah, my wife's ex-employer(a charter school) was entirely public.

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Katfish to xcide13 2012/08/12 10:06:08

Yeah, sounds like they are as useless a a public school.

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Epistemically Justified -- BN7 2012/08/09 16:58:12

Not sure

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Charter schools are an interesting case -- not quite private, not quite public.

My gut reaction is "no" that this violates the girl's privacy and is unfair in that this rule will only give consequences to the mother of a child, not the father. However, from a school admin position, I think I can understand that teen sex and teen pregnancy is an issue. Perhaps if the language of the charter agreement includes an explanation on how teen pregnancy will be handled, then it would be ok.

In that case, should they request pregnancy tests of young women the suspect of being pregnant and the result is positive, IF/WHEN they take action in removing the pregnant girl from the school, then I think they should also take the same action against the father of the child. Just my two cents.

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