Memphis Officials Take Action After Spike in Teen Pregnancy

...guess you haven't been to Memphis. White is the minority downtown.

First off, what grade are you in? Your grammar is horrific. Second, I do not know what part of Memphis you live in or have been through, but I can tell you your quite wrong. Just the oppposite of what you said. And very impoverished by the looks of it. 61% african american as a matter of fact....

are you that stupid, memphis has more black gangs than any other state, check home sales there, people will not move there, they give homes away, so before you go calling people a redneck, and you are to damn damn stupid to understand where the name redneck came from, know what you are talking about DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now go get your welafe check

Drake why is it i do not believe you have ever been enar Memphis? As a 1978 graduate of the Memphis city school system and life long resident of teh metro memphis area, i can tell you that the memphis city school system is 90% African American. It hasn't been mostly white for almost 40 years.

It is hard not to bring race into teh argument when it comes to Memphis city school, for everything having to do with MCS is based on race. Race is a major factor in hiring and issuing of contracts. Every decision made in the MCS has to meet racial quotas. It is no surprise that the MCS board has voted to surrender it's charter after making a complete mess of the schools. On the recent state report cards on public school MCS got 3 "F"s and a "D". While the county system spent less money per student and got all "A"s. So what does MCS do, they decide that since the county schools(mostly white) have a better system it is unfair so they will surrender the charter and force the county school to absorb the mess the City school system has created. Sadly it has cost as much yearly to run the city schools as it does to run the entire city government. Still they can not produce a passing school system much less a good school system.

That picture was place to start up a racist chat this is what aol likes to do. pay this sht no mind you can't change how people feel this is just a test to find out how you think and were your head is at FALL FOR THE HYPE...

It isn't just Memphis. I feel like we have allowed people to milk the system everywhere in the US, and those who are willing to exploit their children to get a paycheck have a lot of opportunities to do so. How can we stop something that is so out of control? I'm open to suggestions because it needs to stop now. We are enabling generations of people. Those of us who work, and I am one, would love to stop paying for everyone else when we are struggling to pay our own way.

Unfortunately too many are looking at ways to solve this problem that are too simplistic and unrealistic. Sex education and cutting out welfare is not going to solve the problem. The problem is an entrenched mindset that is prevelent in the memphis inner city. As someone who grew up in the inner city after my parent divorced and who worked in the inner city i have gotten a knowledge of the problem that most do not have. There are two main mindsets that need to be addressed. One is the entitlement or you owe me mentality. You will not believe the number of times i have entered an inner city home working for the landlord and have been cussed out because i did not do as the tenant wanted me to do and not what the landlord instructed me to do. I have listened to conversation in these homes while working and heard the tenants talking among each other how irt is the government's responsibility to take care of their problem. Healthy young adults who refuse to even look for a jjob because they felt they are owed a living because of something that happend almost 200 years ago.

Then there is the macho for lack of a better word mindset. You can hand out condomd and birth control by the millions each year and it will have little effect. For the males refuse to use them. To many it is a badge of honor to father an out of wedlock child. In many cases the more children you father the more respected you are in the community. Sex education classes will not solve this. Until you can get it back to where it is a disgrace to have a child out of wedlock then nothing will change. A lot of the problem lays with the AA churches. The modern AA minister is more concern in political activism that teaching the word of God. They actively and openly support activites that are specifically denounced in the Bible because it is the PC thing to do. When and only when you lay a solid moral groundwork in these communities where wrongful activity is condemened instead of celebrated, you will never be able to correct the problems in today's society. The AA community is second only to the homosexual community when it comes to HIV and AIDS. Given this information, if AA men will not use condoms to protect themselves, do you really think the chance of fathering a child is going to bother them?

It doesn't matter what these boys want. If the girls said NO that would eliminate pregnancies also.

No one blames the girl, but it is her body to take care of, to control, to honor and not be abused and your body is yours. And she does have the baby forever, he doesn't.