Highschools and baby care

Today, sunday the 22th of November, a story about a girl was posted in the news. She got pregnant in 2002, while she was still in highschool, and the directive board of her school considered it so scandalous that they didn't took too much time to kick her out. Madeleine (that was her name) got in touch with a lawyer that took her case and started talkig to people, going every day to the Education Ministry, demanding that she was re-intergrated to her school. After a lot of fights she was finaly let back, and her teachers where obligated to recieve her delayed papers and to let her pass her course. Madeleine's case was so known all over our country that it became a statement for the rights of teenagers mothers, and from that year by law any school can expelle students for the only reason of being pregnant, and also that they have to create special, more flexible criterions for them to be able to pass their courses in the time they have.

The story also speaks about after that year, and because of the public treatment that Madeleine's case, a lot of schools in Santiago and some in other cities have incorporated baby care centers for the teenager mothers to be able to go to class with out having to let her babies at home or away from them. I think this is a very good move forward for all women, but specially for our country, to give evey one the chance to develop them selves besides their sex.