Baby week was December 1st-5th. All the students in the teen living class carried around a flour sack baby and had to care for it at school and at home. Ms. Murray, the teacher of Teen Living, said, in Teen Living, students learn about how to be a good friend, get along with and appreciate family members and your heritage, personality traits for yourself and others, dating, and sexual responsibility. “Students have to name their baby and clothe it with small blankets. The gender of the baby is drawn from a hat, to emulate the randomness of real baby genders. To care for the baby, the parents have to wake up at one in the morning and take care of the baby.”
“I chose Teen Living because I want to be a mother,” said Sarah Tucker, a ninth grader, “My baby is Victoria Johanna Tucker.”
“I chose teen living because I thought it would be fun, but it’s really tiring,” said Brett Moon, a ninth grader.
At the end of baby week, the babies got turned in, graded and then handed back, either to be cared for or made into cookies. If the parent had recorded any abuse, or if Ms. Murray found some on the baby, the parent were docked points. And thus ends another baby week, but take heart after it is all said and done, bread week begins!