“The author who knew her personally does not indicate she was an idiot.”
Perhaps not. However, there is the stereotype and it does feature attributes of idiocy.
The girl is trapped in the hell of liberal public policy and social engineering that defines the government school system and low income urban areas. The only hope she has (outside of Christ) is teachers like the author of this article and/or the liberation of such students from the current school system.
The current system is set up to encourage life long dependency on government programs and a detachment of sexual activity from personal responsibility. It is a sure way to make sure each generation remains trapped in a cycle of poverty, personal defeatism and wrong choices.
I don’t have some starry eyed ideal that she will wake up,
wise up and apply herself to bettering her life. But I would like to think that we get realistic and demand gov’t schools give them the necessary survival tools. Tools that are scoffed at as being archaic and anti feminist these days. You know, like home ec. instead of sex ed.
The big problem is that current policy makes the wrong thing easy. You want child care provided by the school. You can take care of your own baby and go to night school and pay for child care.
Nothing should be free. Based on a sliding scale, sure but not free. If you can’t pay you can put in sweat equity. But we are no longer going to reward bad choices.