You're f'ing kidding me right?

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90 Girls Pregnant at One Tennessee High School
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Ninety girls at Frayser High School in Memphis are pregnant or have recently given birth, according to Fox affiliate, WREG 3 of Memphis, Tennessee.

This shocking statistic isn’t uncommon for the Memphis area, says local Alicia Williamson.

“There were a whole lot of bellies. You had to watch out so you didn’t bump into them,” said Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004. “Being 2011, I thought a lot of them would have thought this is not the right way to go, having babies during school time.”

Deborah Hester Harrison, who heads the teen pregnancy prevention organization Girls Inc., says Memphis’ teen pregnancy rate stands at between 15 and 20 percent, almost twice the national average.

Tennessee law requires schools to teach “Family Life Education.” In Memphis City Schools, this curriculum is taught to students in the ninth grade for several weeks each year. According to the Department of Education, Family Life Education puts an “emphasis on abstinence from sexual relations outside of marriage.”

A sign that abstinence-only education isn’t working? Nah.

It’s not that simple, says Memphis City Schools board member Stephanie Gatewood. There’s a lot that goes into sex education. It’s not like you just throw some soft porn onto a screen in the gym and hope the kids figure it out for themselves.

“If we do teach sex ed, we need to do it a whole lot sooner than 14, 15, 16,” Gatewood said. “So the question then becomes, when do you do it?”

Maybe sooner than 14, 15, 16? Just a thought.

If 1 of every 5 girls attending your schools will become pregnant at some point in their time there, you might want to try mixing things up. Experiment a little. If you don’t, the kids certainly will.