Shame on Time and reporter Kathleen Kingsbury. Shame on principle Joseph Sullivan. Shame, shame, shame. Can anybody say remember a story Dan Rather once did?
I read this evening that Kathleen Kingsbury of Time has been caught telling two different tales of whether or not she talked to any of the pregnant teens. I’m not surprised and she should lose her job along with principle Joseph Sullivan. While we are at it, if I was the parent of any of those 17 girls I’d find it hard pressed to be as disappointed in them as I am in the school district and the media.
Are you kidding me? These are children, children that shouldn’t be having sex or getting pregnant maybe, but they are children. This story reeked of suspicion from the very start. Am I the only one who believes that something is amiss here with this story?
Remember school, can you tell me the biggest click in your school? Did it consist of 17 girls? Please. Do you know how many women try to get pregnant a year? It is actually harder than is purported. Even if what is being reported that eight or so had a pact, you’re telling me they could really all get prenant at the same time.
This is nothing other than a big coincidence. If it weren’t there would be about a handful of other girls or so that tried and were part of said pact that didn’t get pregnant. Talk to any doctor and I’ll bet you ten to one they’d agree with me. At least you’d think there’d be girls who decided not to try…and they’d be talking.
It is easy for Time’s Kathleen Kingsbury and principle Joseph Sullivan to say these things. Who’s going to believe a bunch of teenage girls that have already shamed their families enough? Who would think they would come forward?
While I believe there are teenage girls lacking maturity that think it is okay to get pregnant, there is no way I believe you can find 17 girls in one school who think it is okay to get pregnant. This is beyond belief. Remember the saying if it is too good to be true, then it probably isn’t.
And if it is true…I still stick by my shame on them, there is just a bit more shame and a bit more of them if there was a pact. The adults in this story are not out to help anybody, solve any problems, they all just get their names in the paper and denigrate the children in this story. Oops, maybe this is why this happened, I’m sure there’s more to this story than meets the eye, but we may never know and I hope that we don’t have to hear from Dr. Phil on this one.
I remember being a young middle school kid and a sixteen year old bus mate took me aside and told me how she would have to be leaving school and her life was about to change and she hoped the same thing never happened to me when I was older. I remember that. And I’ll tell you this, it was from the heart, and I really feel that there is no way there are 17 girls reveling in their predicament and shame on anybody who thinks otherwise. They are just trying to make lemonade out of lemons right now. Kudos to the couple that made an appearance on Good Morning America and explained the real pact of the matter.
So, I just wanted to say I’m tired of the blogs beating up on these girls. It serves no purpose. They are being painted as immature, selfish, witches who supposedly tricked a bunch of boys. Real nice. As usual the boys did no wrong, has anybody talked to any boys? I bet all involved are banking on them not coming forward too.
Come on, anybody having hindsight about this story? Anybody the least bit sorry for this kind of injustice? If it was your daughter? A little tough love? Or this?