How should you support and respect the trust of a school pupil who reveals she is pregnant?
A teacher tells of just such a case, where the young person's prime concern was that her parents should not know.
As a teacher, I like to think of myself as fairly approachable. I was in my first teaching job when a girl in my class told me she was pregnant.
The first thing is what do you say?
She told me that I couldn't tell anybody, but I knew I couldn't promise her that.
She was shocked and confused and I was a new teacher, and I didn't know what I was meant to do, what the legal repercussions were or if I was under any obligation to inform her parents.
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