Pregnant students have a right to be educated like everybody else

The Teen Parents Support Programme is horrified at the attitude to, and treatment of, a young mother by a Tipperary secondary school.

While most schools are very supportive of pregnant and parenting students, in the experience of the Teen Parents Support Programme, discrimination of this kind — albeit less overt — is not uncommon.

Young people who become parents have a right to complete their education so as to make the best possible life for themselves and their children.