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You can just see another generation of kids lost to the system....
You can just see another generation of kids lost to the system....
Oct 15, 2009 9:35 pm US/Central
Why Are 1 Of 8 Girls Pregnant At Robeson High?
Officials Say A Mix Of Factors Are To Blame, As They Try To Help The Young Women
Reporting
Kristyn Hartman
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
About one in eight girls at Robeson High School are pregnant. Officials say a variety of factors are to blame.
It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing.
CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports.
All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.
If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation.
Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are expecting.
To put it in perspective, their school pictures would fill roughly six pages of their high school year book.
Why is it happening at Robeson?
1 Of 8 Girls At Robeson High School Are Pregnant - cbs2chicago.com