How would you answer this?

Question

I am doing a project on why teens should take a class that wil show them how hard it is to be a teen parent and I need these qusetions ansswered, do you think you guys can help?


Do you think teens will really take this class seriously?

What do you think we should do to try and make this ‘law’ be a real law?

How much money do you think the people who pay taxes are willing to pay for the class?

Do you agree with my idea, and why?

Answer 1

I speak from experience on this one.

My od high school offers an elective (hence, not mandatory) class called "Child Development". In this semester long class, students learn about pregnancy, labor and birth, caring for newborns, and about how a child develops up until about the age of 5 (if I remember correctly, it may be 6). Towards the end of this course, for 72 hours, each student has a turn with the "babies" that the school provides for this class. The babies cry, and when they do, you have to insert a key into them and hold it in for about twenty minutes (sometimes more, sometimes less) It simulates caring for a baby. They look really real, and many people gave me dirty looks ( I was 16 at the time of the course) You have to have them with you at all times, during school and work (or you have to request time off from work).

Most kids in my class hated having the baby. For three days, they could not concentrate on school because their baby kept them up all night. They missed work from their classes because their baby cried during class time. It was hard to carry books because they had to carry a bookbad, a diaper bag, and child carrier, making sure they did not tip the baby or it would cry, resulting in an "abuse" that is recorded in the computer inside the baby and resulting a 5 point deduction from your project.

Yes, teens would take this class seriously. Especially with the baby project. It will help them realize how difficult it is.

As for what to do to make the law, it depends on whether you want it to be a state wide or federal objective. I'm guessing that the board of education would be a good idea, as for trying to make it necessary for high school graduation.

I don't know about taxes really... sorry!

Yes, I do agree because there are too many babies being born to mothers who are not ready to have them. If they were forced to take a class that showed them what teen pregnancies and parents are like they would be more likely to use more effective birt control methods.

Sorry I wrote so much.

Answer 2

Do you think teens will really take this class seriously?

If the teens in the class are having sex then they will take it seriously. Thinking of how they might get pregnant or get a girl pregnant.

What do you think we should do to try and make this ‘law’ be a real law?
Get signitures.

How much money do you think the people who pay taxes are willing to pay for the class?

Budget cuts. I don't think people are willing to pay MORE taxes.

Do you agree with my idea, and why?

Yes. I'm 23 and I can't even fathom how a teenage girl could give birth...let alone take care of that baby alone, or even with help. Every 2 hour feedings?

Answer 3

I like the idea of the class, but I highly doubt that most teens would take it seriously. Making it a required class won'y make the students pay attention, or absorb any of the material. If you live in a bigger city where teenage parenting is more common, then hopefully you will have an impact on the students. I'm not sure what kind of money people would be willing to pay for this type of thing, but I personally think it is very important.

Answer 4

In my high school it was required. Mostly because of the ever-rising number of teen parents. I was a young mother, who at the time was alone because my child's father is an active member of the military. If I'd never taken this course I would have been released from the hospital with this fragile human life to care for and I would have failed miserably. Humans, by nature, are the only mammal not born with a genetic "parental instinct".
Kids don't know what they're getting themselves into, they don't understand the risks involved in raising a child. Fist of all you are taking a human life into your own hands. If you don't know how to care for that child properly you could kill it or cause it serious long term harm.
It takes both a male and a female to make a baby. And the boys should be pushed forward to step up and take responsiblity for what they took part in creating. If you are old enough to play the game, you are old enough to deal with the conciquences.
I would think more and more teens are taking this course seriously as they are seeing more and more of their own friends taking the real life crash course of becoming real teen parents.
I don't think it is necessary to become a LAW per-say but it should become a required part of the teen curriculum in all high schools.
If it is required for them to take PE or English in all high schools then this should be at the top of the list, and NOT an elective.
Taxing the taxpayers higher may help but it's not in just the taxpayers hands, the school's finances should make room above and beyond their financial needs to provide the means for this class.
By paying higher taxes for educational class for schools to require this course then we are saving ourselves the money that we, as taxpayers, would be paying either for this teen parent to be living off the state or for their child to be placed in state funded living due to un healthy, un secure or simply un educated parents.

Answer 5

some teens might not and others just might because some well most of them will be in this situation and others wont and they'll belieb=ve it doenst apply to them.

write letters to the mayor and the governor letting them know what you feel and why you feel that way.

im not too sure about that question.

i agree with your idea because i know alot and trust me when i say alot of teens who are pregnant and wish they had the learning to know what they know now would be so hard and complicated when it comes to this. i hope i answered your questions like you wanted.

Answer 6

I think any teenagers contemplating sex and parenting should be forced to spend the weekend with a two year old. They will realize very quickly how much they enjoy their freedom and don't want to be tied down at such a young age.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

most teens probably won't take it seriously and the ones who don't take it seriously are most likely the ones who will become teen parents.