Pregnant women of all ages often carry on working until just a few weeks before they give birth, and many return to some sort of work after only a brief period of maternity leave. In olden times and in peasant societies today, women would be expected to carry on working in the fields with a baby strapped to them. There doesn’t seem to be anything so different about being at school that rules out carrying on with as much of your previous life as possible once you have become pregnant. Indeed, children under 16 legally have to be full-time education in many countries, so there should be an expectation that very young mothers do stay in the classroom.

We should not be judgemental towards young mothers; it would be unfair to punish them in order to send a message to others. Indeed, it is legal in many countries to get married at 16 and so quite possible for a married student to become pregnant while still in high school. If anything, having young mothers with babies in school is more likely to put other students off irresponsible sexual activity, as the natural consequences of this will be brought home to them. Seeing how demanding a young baby can be and how tired the mother gets is also likely to ensure other students avoid unwanted pregnancies.

Mothers in education are not often going to bring babies into the classroom; they will be in crèche facilities or being cared for by relatives during the school day. In fact pregnant students and young mothers are likely to become more focused in class, motivated to continue their studies and to succeed because it is not just their own future that they are thinking about anymore. Their presence may also help others reflect on the value of an education and so contribute to a better learning atmosphere.

Most women in most societies have to work while caring for babies. Typically extended families help with childcare and this continues today with grandmothers often looking after baby in the day so that young mothers can continue to study. Providing baby has good quality contact with the mother every day and knows it is loved, there is no evidence that a few hours regular absence poses any harm. Where such family help is not possible, schools should be willing to support students with crèche facilities to enable them to remain in education.

If we throw pregnant girls out of school we cut them off from all their friends, socially isolating them at a vulnerable time in their lives. This is deeply unfair and likely to alienate all the children involved from authority. Pregnant girls will be going through all kinds of changes that will accelerate further after birth; at such times they need to know that their friends still care for them and accept them.

Education is essential in modern society to increase chances of stability. Objectively, in my opinion it shouldn't be essential and if you have natural talent or get lucky, by all means you should be able to be successful that way. But with or without a child, education is now an important factor in success. Having a child, even though it's much harder to do both, doesn't change that fact.

Of course they should. Why have them laying around doing nothing surviving off food stamps?

Young mothers need a chance to gain qualifications that will let them earn money to support their child in the future. Cutting these girls off from education denies them this opportunity and makes it likely that the state will need to support their family for many years to come. And isn’t there a fairness issue here? Why should expectant girls be excluded from school but not the boys who got them pregnant?

Of course. Nobody can't deny other people's want to educate and better themselves. I mean isn't deny that "girl's" education hypocritical becuase it was the LACK of education that brought her to the state of pregnancy. I kinda find that hypocrisy funny.

Yes. Unless the ultrasound or some other medical reason prevents it, they should absolutely continue their education. They are obviously not very smart to start with since they got pregnant, so they need to get smarter. It would be crazy to kick them out of school.

Yes, if we don't give them education, they will be more of a liability than an asset to society. We want them to be able to take care of themselves and their baby, so that we don't have to be burdened paying them welfare checks.