I know next to nothing about Tyra Banks aside from her being a model and I’ve never watched more than a few channel-surfing minutes of any reality show but, apparently, the “Tyra Banks Show” seems to have rocked the sox off many parents of teens and pre-teens.

Many, but not all.  Some parents both understand and accept the new social-sexual paradigm.

Two interrelated series on this website, (three articles on “Teachers Gone Wild” in August, 2008 and an earlier series on those teens at Gloucester High in Massachusetts who entered into a “pregnancy pact,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=201, discussed America’s blossoming teen and teacher sexuality.)

I naively thought I had covered a good portion of what had to be covered on that subject.  (Anyone interested in specifics on those series, perform a site search by typing either “Gloucester” or “Teachers” in the search box.)

I wasn’t even close to being thorough on the topic. 

For those who forgot what went on in Gloucester, the scandal which garnered international attention involved some 17 girls, mostly sophomores, who agreed to get pregnant just for the fun of it and so they could raise their cherubs together while still in high school.  To accomplish their goal, they recruited very willing males, some in their twenties, to impregnate them.

Naturally, and hopefully after parents got these kids by the scruff of their necks and spelled out the reality of the long-term consequences of their actions and after explaining that pleasures are attended by responsibilities, the details and the numbers have been changed since then.  The pact, if not the pregnancies, has even been denied by some of the alleged participants.

What is irrefutable is that there were some teen pregnancies at Gloucester High last Spring, much more than the average, and that the high school was an active facilitator in the sordid mess by establishing an in-school day care center which allowed the kids to tend to their kids and even take them to classes. 

The principal, one Joseph Sullivan resigned in disgrace while protesting his innocence: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/gloucester_high.html

However, back to the immediate subject, the “Tyra Banks Show” ...

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