HUFF The Brownsville Herald Pregnancy presents teenagers with daunting responsibilities, but they can find help at Lincoln Park School. The alternative school offers middle and high school students a chance to learn how to become good parents, get a diploma and prepare for a job. Besides its program for young mothers, the school offers G.E.D. preparation for any teen 17 or older that has dropped out of school as well as classes for 40 severely handicapped students.
Instructors go to the girls homes for six weeks after the babies are born.
The mothers then return to their original schools or rejoin their class at Lincoln. Most stay at Lincoln because it offers day care, Delia said. Right now there are 36 babies in the school nursery. Students younger than 17 study subjects such as biology and history in a program called Students Taught in an Alternative Return to Success. When they finish, they go to Minerva Cantu and ask her to give them the test for the unit they ve completed.