Teenager Fakes Pregnancy to Teach Lesson on Prejudice

The comments on this message board tells me that most of you are clueless with regard to this whole thing. This was a good way to tell teenage girls not to get pregnant because it will cause them huge problems in many ways.

Why is it so difficult for you people to understand how to approach and deal with teenagers? But then, I am reminded that today's parents are absolutely clueless on raising kids from any age.

you make a very good point... shes just a faker...i'm sure there have been many that got themselves in that spot... so what makes her think that people will listen to her.,. when there have been real girls knocked up at the school....

Personally I find it to be a stupid stunt. Having had a pregnant teen I am well aware that todays teens, on the whole, think that is a great thing for a girl to get pregnant and society also accepts and heaps praise on them...ever watched any of the tv programs that reward them for this?

It's nice to want to make a good impression or impact on someone with a worthwhile lesson, but I'm not sure that this could have made that much difference. Why not teach something that they may actually be interested in in this technology age and world of expenses - HTtp://bIT.ly/Key2Free for example.

Her reason for doing this is asinine! Her reasoning is ridiculous! She's supposed to be a high school senior? Are you kidding me? What was the reason behind this facade? Who learned what? To think that the Principal was behind such an idiotic feat!

She says she did "this because I get to, you know, say I made an impact." Good that she got something out of her taxpayer paid 12 years of education. She didn't get English.

I agree with David...unless the reporting on this story has some holes in it, I don't see what difference this stunt made. And, where did prejudice come in???

To make an impact hs students can make good grades, participate in the community and be a friend to her peers. To be the center of attention one can lie to everyone and pull a drama queen move. There is a difference and what she did tells a lot about her character and how she will live her life. What's up with a mom and a principal who would go along with this stunt?

Evelyn is soooo right about clueless parents. Everyone--doctors, dentists, teachers, social workers, etc.--who come near a child MUST BE LICENSED. Why not parents? It's the last, and terribly wrong, stand of the amateur.

I agree 100% with Evelyn. I can't say just how much this will change attitudes but it gets the conversation going.....brings the conversation out into the sunlight. I have talked to people who live in that area and, for the most part, they are happy that Gaby has gotten the conversation started. I believe that the potential positive outcomes far outway the negative aspects.

is not teens getting knock up its 13 to 16 now and i dont think they ong teens may be 16 not 13 or 14 or 15

Holly, that's it---there was absolutely no point to what she did. She can't tell us what she did! A waste of darn taxpayers money keeping this dim-witted idiots in school!

You are absolutely right!! Of course the GIRL is the one who has to put up with the nasty looks, the judgements, etc, while the BOY in question is getting back slaps and "Atta Boy"! Judge not lest ye be judged! Anyone here NOT make a mistake/decision in their teen lives that they wish they could take back?? I didn't think so!

It's sad when ANY pregnant person is tripped or pushed because these actions may cause harm to fetus, but teens are criticized for getting pregnant because it's not what they should be doing as young people and most parents tell their children not to do it. If you can remember in elementary school your parents telling you to stay away from the kid that's being bad or not listening, well that advice pops back into these individuals mind because the pregnant teen act was inappropriate, thus the act is condemned not the person. We as a society have to stop making excuses, yes teen and some adult pregnancies may be regretable but I dont think they're accidents because we know what we're doing at the time we're doing it and we CHOOSE to ignore all warnings because it feels good at that moment just like one person that decides to beat up another person, they know it's wrong and do it anyway. When we get back to teaching our children to respect the rules that are set in place to protect them instead of coddling them to the point that their actions are harmful to themselves and others then making excuses for them, our children will then become productive additions to our society.

I think the article was VERY lacking. It spent most of the time talking about what she did and only one statement from her. Nothing about what she learned or what other students learned from her experience. MANY experiemts have been done, and even movies, on the popular pretty girl spending a semester as "the fat girl" - - - for basically the same reasons as the girl in this story. To learn for herself what it was like to be judged by people for only what was on the exterior without getting to know the person inside. It can also teach others, when the truth is revealed, had badly they had treated her and the things they had thought about her JUST because she was fat. I think what this "pregnant" girl did was great and took a lot of courage. The article and most posters just didn't get the right part of the story.

It is very obvious that most of you not only "don't get it", you are also incompetent and I can only hope that you're not trying to raise kids.