SWEDEN: Sex in School

"What should schools do when pupils have children?" asked Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet. A Bible teacher in a school in southern Sweden had posed the question after two girls bore babies fathered by fellow students. Should they be expelled, or at least get bad-conduct marks on their final reports? The Bible teacher's view was that they should. Not so. said the principal, and handed out good-conduct marks. The school's teaching staff agreed, taking the position that "the schools should not punish, now that society no longer does." The outraged Bible teacher appealed to...

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