by Barbara Akowuah

Created on: July 03, 2008

The answer is simply no. The only ones who are at fault in this case are the girls and their partners who made the decision to have a baby, as well as the parents of those involved.

Take a look at High Schools across the country and you will notice that the issues of these kids do not lie with the schools but rather on the hands of the parents and the communities that often overlook or neglect these kids.

According to a myriad of news reports these girls chose to get pregnant together by agreeing to make a pact. Whether or not they made this pact in secrecy or told a few others about it, their parents should have been in on what was going on with them, and take the necessary course of action.

The school is responsible for these kids from a set time, the parents, however, are responsible for these kids 24 hours a day seven days a week. The school can only do so much to prevent this type of thing from happening.

There is no policy in place that states that it is the school's responsibility to raise these kids. Schools were intended to educate and assist in the development of these kids as students and as individuals.

The schools can not monitor every single move that these kids make. Gloucester High School has some 1200 kids, how is that School Administrators can be responsible for every single student and what they choose to do while they are in or out of the classroom?

These girls obviously have some deep seeded issues that possibly stem from lack of guidance and/or discipline from the home. If they each felt the need to get pregnant in order to receive "unconditional love" than it is obvious that they felt that they were not getting the love they needed elsewhere.

Schools have always tried to instill and encourage excellence and achievement among students but in today's youth with the lack of strong moral fibers and reliable role models it is very difficult for schools to get this message across because society seems to be telling them the exact opposite.

The situation at Gloucester High School is unfortunate for the community of Gloucester, Gloucester High School and all the parties involved. But what's more troubling is that the ones who are going to bear the brunt of it all is the poor innocent lives that are going to be brought into this world.

The babies of these kids are going to be brought into this world under bogus circumstances by girls who are not mature enough nor responsible enough to raise them properly.

There was a time when kids went to school to aspire to become something great, nowadays it appears that schools have become nothing more than excuses for parents to blame for their own faults in ineffectively raising their children.

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