Get Tested Or Get Out: School Forces Pregnancy Tests on Girls

[DesertRat]

In a Louisiana public school, female students who are suspected of being pregnant are told that they must take a pregnancy test. Under school policy, those who are pregnant or refuse to take the test are kicked out and forced to undergo home schooling.

Welcome to Delhi Charter School, in Delhi, Louisiana, a school of 600 students that does not believe its female students have a right to education free from discrimination. According to its Student Pregnancy Policy, the school has a right to not only force testing upon girls, but to send them to a physician of the school administration’s choice. A positive test result, or failure to take the test at all, means administrators can forbid a girl from taking classes and force her to pursue a course of home study if she wishes to continue her education with the school.

This is in blatant violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Today, the ACLU of Louisiana and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project asked Delhi Charter School to immediately suspend this discriminatory and illegal policy.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/get-tested-or-get-out-school-forces-pregnancy-tests-girls

[Bettie]

1. WTF?

I had to check to make sure this was real.

How sad that it is.

[Warpy]

2. Yeah, because they know a woman's brains come out when a baby does.

I'm really glad the ACLU is on top of this one along with other battles in the war against women.

And yes, I sent them money today.

[rocktivity]

3. Dare I ask how they define "suspecting" that you're pregnant?

And what do they do to MALE students to insure THEY aren't knocking anyone up?

rocktivity

[Sherman A1]

4. Pardon me for a moment

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. ditto

[DesertRat]

16. I know! I honestly have no words on this one

[Horse with no Name]

5. Do they furnish the scarlett letters??

Seriously. What a laughingstock we have become.

[gollygee]

6. Wow, time warp to the 1950s

or earlier! No war on women, right.

[DirkGently]

7. The administration needs to be tested for mad-cow.

[jp11]

8. Charter schools, you know they are all about a better education.

By weeding out all the 'undesirables' that might possibly dare mess with their policies of only taking really good students in order to take the credit for their academic performance.

Nevermind the law just so long as they get to take public money, shutdown public schools, and put teachers in unions out of work.

[SoCalDem]

9. So.. test every month?

[KamaAina]

10. Booby Jindal wants to turn even more Louisiana schools into charters

just like this one.

[grantcart]

11. if that doesn't drive up the rate of abortion, Idon't know what will.

[obamanut2012]

12. Charter school, I take it?

Yup.

[Ilsa]

13. Taliban Charter School. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. omg.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. their contact page - contact form that is easily filled out

http://www.delhicharterschool.org/contact

[DesertRat]

18. thank you

[briv1016]

19. The other option is to make the girl carry a special backpack.

[DesertRat]

20. Haha!

Gotta love Stephen Colbert.