Does your school operate in compliance with Title IX?
Title IX of the Education Act of 1972 prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of pregnant or parenting status. Does your school operate in compliance with Title IX? Take this test and find out.
Does your school or school system, its principals, teachers or staff…
- Give students poor recommendations (or refuse to give recommendations) for a scholarship, job or continued schooling because of pregnancy or parenting status?
- Counsel girls who are pregnant or are mothers -- and boys who are fathers -- not to go to college or get further training?
- Deny pregnant students excused absences for medical problems related to pregnancy -- such as fatigue, nausea or morning sickness?
- Deny excused absences for prenatal care or for medical care after the baby is born?
- Make fewer adjustments for pregnant students than for students with other medical problems?
- Deny pregnant or parenting teens honors they have earned, such as valedictorian, honor roll or participation in graduation?
- Refuse to allow pregnant or parenting teens to run for or be elected to class office, the homecoming court or class favorites (such as "Most Likely to Succeed")?
- Deny students honors, awards, team or club memberships because they were once pregnant?
- Expel or suspend students for being pregnant or for being a parent -- or ask them to drop out?
- Restrict the participation of pregnant or parenting teens in sports programs, teams or other extracurricular activities, even though there is no medical reason?
- Put restrictions on teenage mothers that aren't applied equally to teenage fathers?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, look again. Every item violates Title IX.
Adapted from Books, Babies and School-Age Parents: How to Teach Pregnant and Parenting Teens to Succeed
