True story.
Teen pregnancy was something of an epidemic where I used to live in Maryland. It was kind of tragically common for girls as young as thirteen or fourteen to get pregnant and give birth. It wasn't at all unusual to see girls waddling around the halls at my high school with their big pregnant bellies getting in the way. While hardly the majority, it was still common enough to be unremarkable when it happened.
The school curriculum required a 'health class' credit that featured one unit on sex and pregnancy. The only teacher in school who taught that class--whose name I don't remember, so let's just call her Mrs Med--was a married woman in her mid-fifties who, by choice, never had children. She was very well-informed about everything but couldn't speak from experience when it came to pregnancy and childbirth. This isn't generally a problem in any subject--you don't expect someone teaching a history class to have witnessed historical events firsthand, or an English teacher to have written the books. But when I took that class, two girls piped up during the lesson on childbirth and argued with the teacher that their own experiences with pregnancy and childbirth were different than what she was talking about.
Yeah. So many girls kept getting pregnant at that school that a sex ed teacher knew less about it than some of her students.
Holy mindfuck.
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