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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue May 28, 2024, 01:40 PM May 2024

On the Washington-Idaho border, a high school for pregnant and parenting teens [View all]

SPOKANE, Wash. — Before giving birth to her daughter, Kaleeya Baldwin, 19, had given up on education.

She’d dropped out of school as a seventh grader, after behavior problems had banished her to alternative schools. Growing up in foster homes and later landing in juvenile court had convinced her to disappear from every system that claimed responsibility for her.

“I was just really angry with everything,” said Kaleeya.

But in early 2020, during what would have been her freshman year in high school, Kaleeya discovered she was pregnant. At her first ultrasound appointment, a nurse handed her a stack of pamphlets. One, advertising a new school for pregnant and parenting teens, caught her attention.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/05/28/on-the-washington-idaho-border-a-high-school-for-pregnant-and-parenting-teens/

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