We shouldn’t bury our heads in sand. Lets take off the ear muffs and face the facts we are teenagers and we are going to do it regardless. Just because they don’t have a kid doesn’t mean its not happening. We all know.

But we should stop thinking about the way a daycare looks and think about the way it helps.

It gives all teen parents a chance to get back up on their feet and make something of themselves.

We were adults when we had sex and now we are owning up to our responsibilities and acting like adults at school. At the same time there are all these kids failing 5 or more classes and skipping instead of getting tutoring and extra help.

So much for equality. We are here struggling because we have no one to watch our children and we actually do want to be in school getting our education to be something and give our kids a good future. We dont have $600 a week for daycares so we have to stay home. There’s no other option for us.

We’re missing a wonderful opportunity and privilege that other schools have.

If we maybe for one second take away the judgment, maybe just maybe, you’d see our plea and realize how pointless it is if you sit there and try to stop us from trying to correct our wrong. It’s not even a wrong. It’s been done before in history. There’s no way to turn a blind eye to teen pregnancy.

The truth is we know we made a bad choice. We took responsibility and still are untill this day. But having a little less stress and struggle would be great, I mean we all want to soar to excellence right?

I want to walk that stage and show everyone I did it but I can’t do that if I am missing so much school because my home life is all kinds of crazy just like everyone here at Akins. Just because I have a baby doesn’t make me different.

But it does make a difference when I can’t come to school because no one can watch my son, and everyone else chooses to stay home.

So please tell me, does a daycare look better then a large amount of dropouts? Don’t leave behind the few students who grew up too quick. It’s our problem but it will become the schools when the drop out rate goes through the roof because we are receiving no help from a school that supposedly wants the best for all of us.

Right now Texas has the fourth highest rate of births to teen mothers, 30 percent of teen girls who drop out of high school cite early pregnancy or parenthood as the culprit.

Only 40 percent of teen mothers complete high school with some sort of help from family.

I’m not pointing fingers or trying to be a ranting teen mom, but if you see someone trying to stand up after they fall are you going to watch them struggle and push them down or lend a helping hand to help them get back up on their feet?

There’s nothing right about teen pregnancy. It’s not cute, but it happens.