<p>It’s not clear that the nonpregnant kids at Robeson are going to do much better in life than the pregnant ones.</p>
<p>There will be some small percentage that graduate, enter college or learn a trade, and have a steady life in the working or middle class. But most of them will not achieve that, whether they get pregnant in high school or not.</p>
<p>I’m a big fan of sex ed, but I don’t think that’s the issue here. Girls are getting pregnant on purpose, or by purposely leaving the possibility up to chance, because they don’t have plans to do anything else that’s worthwhile. Unless they believe they have something better to do, they’ll take this route. Tightening restrictions on welfare did little to change this pattern.</p>