School forces students to take pregnancy tests and then ban them if pregnant

They're not kicking them out of school, but providing them with home based learning. I don't agree with their policy at all, but that may allow them to skirt around any privacy or discriminatory laws.

Yeah I just want to know what idiot thought that that wouldn't cause a huge issue. And what about the boy? That is just sexism and asking for trouble. If I were on the school board and someone brought this up I would have died laughing and then asked if they were going to personally pay for the lawyers that would be needed. I would love to hear how this turns out for them.
 

It must be illegal. They are forcing girls to take a test if they are SUSPECTED of being pregnant. You can't legally force a minor to do that. And no penalties for boys. I think the ACLU is already on this.

If they aren't, they should be.

Who is paying for these tests? Most school s have a hard enough time paying teacher salaries and books, who is able to afford pregnancy tests too?

I will say, two years ago about, our district have a rash of pregnancies at the high school. The principal managed to get each and every one of those girls out of the school and either home schooled or placed at the alternative school. I never figured out how people did not have a complete fit but they didn't. I spoke to one of the mother's of a pregnant teen, her daughter did home school, and she said her daughter just wasn't up to the fight.

It is a charter school (in Louisiana, which makes tons of sense) so they can set some rules about attendance. And like another poster said, the girls aren't kicked out of school, they are still enrolled (since charter schools have to accept everyone), just homeschooled. And the test is an option when pregnancy is suspected. It'll be interesting to see the outcome of the ACLU case.

It's not optional for the girls. Any girl suspected of being pregnant (and no mention of what constitutes reasonable grounds for suspicion) will be removed from school if she refuses to take the test. 

 

And it seems to me that if they're worried about pregnant girls in school being a bad influence, they've got it bass-ackwards. A girl who stays in school despite being pregnant, when it would be easier in the short run to quit, sets a damn good example of making the best of a bad situation and not compounding one mistake with another. 

The school is changing their policy after the ACLU threatened to sue.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/la-charter-school-changin_0_n_1758097.html

 

 

Good! Louisiana is backward enough as it is, and I say that as a native who wishes it weren't so.