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July 17, 2012
I recently met online a former high school boyfriend from 25 years ago. We've seen each other briefly at reunions, but now we are both single and he is over the moon with me before we've even had a chance to meet in person again, which will happen tomorrow. I am confused and overwhelmed by his interest in me, how do I proceed?
I am a 45 year old single mother. Until the birth of my daughter 5 years ago, I enjoyed a fulfilling career as a researcher and have had the opportunity to travel extensively -- and live in several countries--during the past 20 years. I had an exciting life. Six years ago, I moved back to my city of origin to be closer to my family as well as work at a prestigious university. My daughter's father and I had a very rough relationship and broke up soon after our daughter was born. We were not married and our relationship lasted less than 18 months total. He was bipolar and went back to drinking and smoking a lot of pot soon after my pregnancy. He's a loser, will not pay child support but demands to have time with our daughter. I won full custody but he has visitation rights despite being an outspoken pot-smoker (the courts just don't care). Prior to that, I ended several relationships, including an eight year marriage, due to a lot of insecurity and feelings of abandonment--I had been cheated on a couple of times too. My relationship history has left me feeling little hope of having a stable loving relationship. I have been in therapy for three years, but left about six months ago due to a job change and loss of mental health coverage. I feel I made great strides in therapy, although it catalyzed me to end most of my friendships and family relationships, which were grossly dysfunctional. I have been on a path to make room for healthier, loving people in my life, but I'm finding it pretty overwhelming to figure out if people are "healthy" or not. It's like I never learned what healthy is, so how can I know if I am making the right decisions. I would say that everyone I meet is unhealthy, as even people who appear normal have abnormal behaviors when you get to know them. When do I move on and when to I accept foibles. I tend to reject most people out of fear they will be dysfunctional and try to pull me into their world. My boundaries are so rigid that I am unable to see the good that is surely to be there with some people I meet. This leads me to my question: I recently encountered a man I had gone to high school with. He's spectacularly funny and has raised two very high functioning children who are now in college. He's a manual laborer, very bright and hard working. But here is the problem: we haven't had a chance to actually get together in person but he's talking like we are destined to be together, how he is so overjoyed to be in touch with me, that he's never forgotten about me. I, on the other hand, have been feeling curiosity about catching up and learning about him. See, I believe that I'm the healthy one here and it's wrong to overdo it with emotions so quickly. But I am also the unhealthy one, historically. I want to meet my life partner but how do I know who he is, as I have been wrong so many times before? How do I proceed if I don't love him but want to know if I will some day if he is already "in love"?
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Maybe you should ask him if you can take it slow. Tell him you like him but he's moving a little too fast for you.
Good luck!
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At least one of you is having the appropriate response to reconnecting.
Husbunny and I started dating after knowing each other for over a year on-line. When we met IRL, I had the expectation that we'd be as close as we were on-line. It was disconserting, but it's like we had to build a separate, real-life relationship, apart from our on-line relationship. Thankfully, we did that and a year after our first date we married.
The point is, that your high school boyfriend is confusing you with his high school girl friend. He's meshing the you he knew 20 some-odd years ago with who you are today. He'll get the rude awakening soon enough. You'll meet him at the door and you won't be 17. Intellectually he knows you aren't 17, but his emotions and his expectations are over-riding his logic circuits.
Go out, re-connect and if you want to keep seeing him, great, see where it leads. If you don't have a connection, oh well, it was nice to see him after all of these years.
As for what he says, feels and does, that's on him. He's a big boy, he can take care of himself.
If he's head-over-heels, and you want time to suss out the situation, be honest and take it from there. Sometimes it happens that way.
In case you were wondering, I was the head-over-heels one in the relationship, but I respected Husbunny's reticence. I knew I was loony, but I was okay with it.
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Has he already said he's in love? It's hard to figure out exactly what he said vs what you're reading into it or interpreting it as. Some people are just more romantically demonstrative and certain about things than others and it's easy over email or text to come across wrong. For example, I regularly say that I adore things or that I think people are wonderful (including platonic friends) but that certainly doesn't mean I think I'm in love with them.
Anyway, if you want to hang out with him do, take it slow, spend time in public places so you can get to know him without pressure for physical or emotional intimacy beyond what you're comfortable with.
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the young rope-rider
on July 17, 2012
Listen, sweetie: you have historically NOT been the problem... you've been involved with people who are mentally ill, people who cheat on you, people who don't fulfill your needs or mess you up in other ways. YOU have led an exciting life, been the sole caregiver for a kid, taken the big step of entering therapy to get healthy, etc. YOU sound like you're doing great.
That's why you gotta trust your gut. Your gut is telling you "hey, dude, it is NOT normal to be so effusive about a romantic partner so early!" And your gut is RIGHT. Everyone I've known who has come on super-strong, super-fast has turned out to be super-DUPER-scary later down the road. Give yourself credit, trust yourself and give this one a pass. When it's right, there won't be those warning bells blaring away in the background.
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we haven't had a chance to actually get together in person but he's talking like we are destined to be together, how he is so overjoyed to be in touch with me, that he's never forgotten about me.
If that is too much too soon for you (regardless of whether you trust yourself to judge), then it is too much too soon for you. Tell him that. "I am excited about getting to know you again but I need you to take it down a notch." See how he responds to that, and trust your gut. If your gut is wrong and you pass up something that had potential, then so be it. You will meet someone else. But if your gut is right and you ignore it, then you will soon find yourself in sadly familiar territory.
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(Sorry, I should clarify, I also think that he's being a little whack to be so effusive, but if you are genuinely really skeptical or wary of affection, it might be that you're reading too much into what he said. It's hard to tell without knowing him or what he actually wrote. Also, you totally have my permission to both let this guy go AND go on to find love and happiness. This is not your last chance.)
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the young rope-rider
on July 17, 2012
Well, to appropriate an adage from a different context, no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, you know? It's awful easy to convince yourself someone's perfect for you on paper; it is likely that you immediate problem will be solved by actually meeting each other and finding out that you don't click (most people don't, so in terms of the statistical norm, that should probably be your expectation).
In the less-likely event that you actually meet this guy and like him and he's still over the moon about you, then you tell the guy you need time and want to take things slow and if he is in fact an awesome guy he'll respect that. If he does not he is non-awesome and there's your answer.
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on July 17, 2012
See, I believe that I'm the healthy one here and it's wrong to overdo it with emotions so quickly.
In this case, you are right. He is making two critical mistakes here:
1. The "you" he's talking about is not only idealized by the passage of time and nostalgia (this is not a fault of his - it's just something people do) but is based on who you were twenty-five years ago; in other words, twice-removed from your actual self.
2. As he hasn't talked to you in person, he has no idea what you're actually like.
Also, expectations are a killer. If he's already decided you're someone who's magically destined to be his lady forever, the reality is pretty much inevitably gonna disappoint him, and that's not your fault.
My advice? Meet him and give the guy a chance, but take things slow in every aspect, and tell him you're into taking things slow and go from there. Communicate your reservations and see how he handles being told this. That should tell you a lot of what you need to know. If he turns out to be a loon, you're only out the time spent on a couple dates.
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on July 17, 2012
the young rope-rider's follow-up comment said, just about word for word, what I came in here to say:
he's being a little whack to be so effusive, but if you are genuinely really skeptical or wary of affection, it might be that you're reading too much into what he said.
That said, I don't think there's anything wrong with planning ahead and think about what your responses might be if when you meet up, you find that he is somebody worth pursuing but he still is more effusive than you feel comfortable with -- recommended suggestion: something along the lines of "I'm into you but I need to slow down a bit"
(Any other situation like "You not being into him" (which is a whole different problem) or "He isn't as effusive in person." (which isn't really a problem) can also be something you consider, but you've probably already thought those through.)
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on July 17, 2012
Go slow, go very slow.
I've seen a few similar cases in the last few years: teen or early-twenties romance, a breakup, and then the reconnection years later. (Facebook has a lot to answer for!) Some have gone well, but more have not. I think a big chunk of the problem is that many of the people involved think they are reconnectng with that long-lost love from twenty or thirty years ago, not the person their ex really is now (let alone the fact that THEY aren't the same person either!), and they're seeing the past through rose-colored glasses.
Sometimes they're unhappy or unsettled in their current life, and it's simply a way to reset the clock to what they remember as a happy, stress-free time: their current marriage is going through a rough patch, their kids are driving them nuts, they hate their job or their boss, maybe they've had an emotional upheaval like a parent or spouse dying. But way back when, love was young and bright and beautiful, and all they saw in the future was hope. And honestly, many lie to their exes, and are actually still in relationships and are sneaking around on their spouse.
This particular guy may very well be telling you the truth; the problem is, YOU DON'T KNOW. Either way, it sounds like he's really pushing you much farther and faster than you'd like to move, and he needs to back off. Take your time, and don't let him talk you into something that makes you uncomfortable.
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I would agree with those who've said that if he's going too fast for you, you have the right to slow him down or otherwise act accordingly.
There is a lot of room for interpretation in your situation. For example, you say that you would say everyone you meet is unhealthy. You can be skeptical of this feeling, and suspect that you are being too ... um, suspicious. Or you could accept that nearly everyone *is* unhealthy. Most of us have been deeply affected by something somewhere along the line, or have failed to learn something important, and act unreasonably in some situation(s) because of this. It is what it is. It can just be reality, not a minefield or a morality play.
This guy is super-into you super early, and that's alarming you. And I would never counsel anyone to ignore their alarms. But you're looking for your life partner, and here is someone who is seriously into you who already knows I assume a decent amount about you. That too is what it is. It doesn't have to be bad. It could be good. Or it could just be what it is: an apparent option. I would suggest trying to look at it that way, seriously think about the ramifications, and *then* seeing if the alarms are still going off.
Also, some guys are just this way. I am. When I was single, I wasn't a play-the-field type. I fixated on one girl/woman at a time and thought a lot about how great it could be with her. Sometimes I never made a move. Sometimes I dated her and was disappointed. The last time, I was not. I like to think that once in these relationships, I came off as relatively normal. He seems eager to you to be in the relationship. Maybe, if he gets what he wants, he will calm down. I think it's more likely he just has kind of a big mouth. :)
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This might be a good thing to read, about
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Here is what eventually happened. I went out with this high school friend after having been in contact with him from an online dating site. I was looking forward to seeing him again but felt somewhat miffed at how overconfident he felt in us having a relationship, like we were already going in that direction. I was pretty turned off by his attitude, but wanted to see this through and make sure that I wasn't just reading him wrong. After our date, I was certain that I didn't want to have a relationship with him and told him so. He pretty much ignored what I said and continued to be in touch with me as if we were going to see each other. It was very bizarre; he would describe future "dates" together, describing how our kids would really get along, how he's never forgotten about me and is so glad we have the chance to be together again. Without talking with me about it first, he said he made plans for my birthday that were going to last all day, so I needed to be sure I booked that day with him. I told him I didn't want a birthday gift from him. He said he already paid for a half day spa treatment, so I HAD to show up. I said NO, I did not and I would not. He said something about how he didn't want to make me so mad, but he understood. Then on my birthday I came home to a large cooler full of wine and beer, along with gifts for me and my daughter. I called him and said it was nice he thought about me but I had told him absolutely no gifts. He laughed it off and said it was just friends and for me not to get so uptight about his intensions, he explained, again, that he knew I just wanted to be friends, and he felt friends should be able to buy gifts for each other if they wanted. I explained again that I was not interested. He continued to text and email me despite me not replying to him again. One day a couple weeks later I came home to two large gift bags on my doorstep, one for me and one for my daughter, full of little presents. I texted him that I didn't want presents, nor did I want him coming by my house unannounced, ever again. He again made it out like I was going overboard. He texted me that I was a "control freak". I replied that his comment was very inappropriate, an I was not kidding when I said to not come to my house again. He replied that he was sorry and he wouldn't be in touch with me until I contacted him first. I said best wishes.
What a nightmare.
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on September 17, 2012
Awww, honey. I'm sorry. I was hoping (although not hopeFUL) that this wouldn't happen. But consider yourself lucky to have dodged this bullet. There is someone out there who's right for you, and when you meet them, they will be HAPPY to go as slow/steady as you want them to.
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MeFites,thanks for all of your very helpful advise. It helped put me in a better frame of mind going into this, to trust my feelings and do what's best for me rather than thinking I have to be nice to someone who is creepy.
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Women in metal–a subject that often starts heated arguments filled with strong opinions and misconceptions. Many stigmas exist about female metal musicians, especially metal vocalists: they're inferior and can't bring it as hard as the men can. This article will debunk that ideology. Just because the genre's more famous leading ladies include Amy Lee of Evanescence and Christina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil doesn't mean that every other female follows in their footsteps. This ideology has existed for quite some time now, even classic bands like Girlschool saw a strong amount of prejudice throughout their career. In an interview with Lemmy of Mötorhead from Metal: A Headbanger's Ball he recounted someone who said, after a Girlschool performance "She was pretty good, for a girl" and he responded "Well, f*** you, she's better than you are!"
Women are infiltrating the metal world. They're not all singers who only have angelic voices and fit into the "pretty girl" role. More and more, they're taking on the "badass" persona, and are even playing other instruments in bands, as opposed to just being vocalists. Jeanne Sagan of All That Remains, Marta Peterson or Bleeding Through and Karin Axelsson of Sonic Syndicate have all been holding it down on bass for their bands for years now. Liz Buckingham has been rocking the guitar in Electric Wizard since 2003 and Laura Christine has been playing guitar in a bunch of metal bands lately though she's best known for her work with Warface. You even have some bands that are primarily women, like Zeenon, who are known for playing really great death metal insted of being "hot metal chicks".
Now comes the problem of image. As routinely acknowledged by women metal musicians, being good isn't always enough—you've also got to be really good looking (strongly expressed by the band Kittie in an interview for Metal: A Headbanger's Journey). For a while the expected role of any woman in metal was to either be a groupie or be attractive and little else (not to say there weren't people who broke free of that, Doro Pesch being a famous example). As more women entered the metal scene, many that were on par with their male peers, the stigma of women being less talented than men slowly and surely phased out almost completely. Though it's still a pretty lopsided ration of men to women, it's certainly not as skewed as it once was, and the public eye looks at women a bit differently than it used to. Unfortunately, certain metal publications still focus heavily on women's looks, such as Revolver's annual "Hottest Chicks In Metal" feature.
Today, there are more bands fronted by women who put on the tough guise and bring it just as hard as any man around, and this is likely due to the influx of women into metal and the shifting of mindsets. In Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy talks about adopting a tougher style and persona in order to feel powerful on stage. She also speaks about how young girls come up to her after shows to talk about how her performance inspire them. Most metalheads know Angela, who happens to have one of the best guttural screams live in the whole metal genre, but there are a lot of other bands out there that don't get quite the same press. OurStage's own Abnormality (whose song "Visions" was featured in a Rock Band game) is one of these bands. While listening to Mallika's vocals, it's nearly impossible to tell she's a woman, and it's refreshing to hear a female fronting a brutal death metal band. Other women who rock the guttural vocals and the tough guise include (and is certainly not limited to): Otep Shamaya of Otep, Krysta Cameron of Iwrestledabearonce, Candace Kucsulain of Walls of Jericho, Mel Mongeon of Fuck The Facts and Alissa White-Gluz of The Agonist.
Still think that all bands with women are like Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Epica, Nightwish, In This Moment and the like? I can't really see how you could. If you still need convincing, check out this video of Angela Gossow and Arch Enemy commanding a crowd in Japan to the tune of their song "Tyrants of the Rising Sun"
When Jerzy Jung sings "I'm going down," on her song "The Anchor," you might be inclined to go with—nevermind where "down" might be. Seduction's a powerful thing, and Jung – a pop songstress from Hellertown, PA – knows how to wield it. "The Anchor" is haunting trip-pop consisting of quavering guitars, shadowy drum machines and Jung's muscular voice. Think Evanescence's Amy Lee meets Sara McLachlan. It's sexy, heady stuff, but lest you think Jung is just a torch singer, lend your ears to "Black Dress White Dress," a urgent little pop melody, or the graceful ballad "I Hope." On the latter, an elegiac piano, twinkling xylophone and soft, marching drums each reveal themselves in fleeting glimpses. What's more provocative – the hint of something or its full reveal? If your vote goes for Option A, you'll enjoy the Jungian art of seduction.


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Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate stayed at 10.3 percent in September — unchanged from a revised 10.3 percent in August, the state labor department said Thursday.
There has been no improvement from a year ago when the metro area's jobless rate in September 2010 was also 10.3 percent, the labor department said.
Among the core metro counties, Clayton had the highest unemployment rate at 12.8 percent. Fulton was next with 10.8 percent, followed by DeKalb (10.5 percent), Cobb (9.5 percent) and Gwinnett (9.2 percent).
The city of Atlanta posted a jobless rate of 11.5 percent in September. That was down from 11.7 percent in August, but up from 11.3 percent a year ago.
Last week, the labor department reported that Georgia's unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in September, up from 10.2 percent in August.
September was the 50th consecutive month Georgia has exceeded the national unemployment rate, which is currently 9.1 percent.
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Email Usage Among GenZ Kids Plummets
A new report, provides a snapshot of usage trends across the digital space.
Perhaps most noteworthy was the shift in e-mail usage, particularly among young people. Total Web-based e-mail use was down eight percent last year, led by a walloping 59 percent drop among 12 to 17 year olds. The second biggest drop was among 25 to 34 year olds (18 percent) and third biggest was among 45 to 54 year olds (12 percent). The only age category to increase its use of e-mail in 2010 was 55 to 64 year olds (up 22 percent), which the report attributed to continuing Internet adoption among that age group.
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Transmuting base (instincts) into gold…
The folks at 826LA (an institution inspired, it seems, by 826 Valencia in SF) have performed an alchemical feat: they've made cheating good!
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One simply forms a team, raises tax-deductible contributions to 826LA– then spends that loot on "cheats" (explained here) in the contest. A good time is had by all– and 826LA gets to continue its work "helping students across Los Angeles finish all their homework, write their first books, and become all-around more confident writers."
As we practice recognizing diphthongs by ear, we might recall that it was on this date in 1811 that Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron) returned from the two-year trip that was the inspiration for Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)… as a result of the publication of which, Byron became a major pop star– whose taste, manners, and fashion were all widely imitated. Quoth the startled poet: "I awoke one morning and found myself famous."
Loving Godzilla, 17 syllables at a time…
From SamuraiFrog, an arresting (and very amusing) collection of Godzilla Haiku.
"Monsters are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice; that is their tragedy"
– Ishiro Honda (Kurosawa friend, Toho director, and creator of Godzilla)
Honda on the set of the original Godzilla
As we rethink our attraction to urban centers, we might compose a birthday rhyme for Torquato Tasso, the 16th Century Italian poet; he was born on this date in 1544. Tasso was a giant in his own time– he died in 1595, a few days before the Pope was to crown him "King of the Poets"– but had fallen out the core of the Western Canon by the end of the 19th century. But he resonates still in the poems (Spencer, Milton, Byron), plays (Goethe), madrigals (Monteverdi), operas (Lully, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Rossini, Dvorak) , and art work (Tintoretto, the Carracci, Guercino, Pietro da Cortona, Domenichino, Van Dyck, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Tiepolo, Fragonard, Delacroix) that his life and work inspired.


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Mom's Apple Nut Cake- Cupcakes this time!
This Apple Nut Cake recipe, which my Mom clipped from the pages of the Los Angeles Times in the 1960's, was her go to choice for potlucks when I was young. She had a 13" x 9" baking pan with a slide on cover that was well used to bake and carry this cake.
When she first read through the recipe, she expressed concern that there had been a mistake made in the printing, as there are 4 cups of diced apples to 2 cups of flour, and felt sure that it wasn't enough flour to hold the cake together. But, no, the recipe was correct, and quite delicious, too. I briefly wondered the same thing over 20 year later when I came across the recipe for Marion Cunningham's Raw Apple Muffins in Gourmet Magazine, then realized, after a quick comparison, that it was exactly the same recipe except for the addition of a cup of raisins.
Which points to a subject of discussion at the Cookbook Friends Facebook page just over a week ago. Russ Parsons had reposted his article "The complicated case of a simple cookie" from the L.A. Times there. The article had to do with where recipes originate and proper attribution, as the issue had come up (once again) in this year's L.A. Times Holiday Cookie Bake Off. Popular food blogger and cookbook writer, David Leibovitz, commented on the post saying that someone once had given him a treasured family recipe, verbally, which he wrote down and then wrote up, attributing it to her family, at which time someone pointed out it was from a book. Cookbook author and editor, Martha Holmberg, commented that when she wrote for The Oregonian "we had a holiday cookie contest and received several recipes for a "nutmeg log" -each attributed fondly to an aunt, mother, grande-mere, and each identical. Probably was a recipe in the red-and-white-checked BHG cookbook of yore. Even funnier is the chocolate crackle cookie that a Martha Stewart book claims is from Martha's relative but suspiciously like the one on the Hershey's cocoa tin."
And wouldn't you know it, last week I saw another Facebook friend, Hilary Cable, post that she was making a birthday dinner for her nephew which included "that famous apple cake with the lemon cream cheese frosting".
What can I say, a good recipe gets around. This Christmas Eve, it was transformed into cupcakes to introduce to a new generation of my family's youngsters.
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A big question about four-day school weeks — a budget solution that several Georgia systems adopted to cut costs — was what students would do with that extra day off from classes.
An Elbert County teen health center is hoping that the answer won't turn out to be have sex and babies at higher rates.
Take a look at this interesting article in the Georgia Health News. Here is an excerpt:
"Elbert has had the problem of teen pregnancy for a long time," said Adriane Strong, the adolescent health educator of the Teen Matters Clinic in Elberton. "The teen birth rate was higher several years ago, then it came down. But recently, it may have gone back up," Strong said.
"Around 20 teens aged 15 to 18 visit our clinic every week," said Strong, "The majority of them are seeking services including birth control and STD testing and treatment."
Strong suspects that three-day weekends could contribute to the rebound of the teen pregnancy rate. "There is a large gap of time when teens are unsupervised on Mondays," said Strong, "That may bring the potential for them to do things that they may not do when they are occupied with school, though they tell me they just stay at home or do babysitting."
Lack of adult supervision is an established factor in studies of risky behaviors among teenagers, according to Matthew Lee Smith, assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior at UGA's College of Public Health. "When students have additional unsupervised time, it may facilitate opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors," said Smith.
Another factor may be the shortage of safe, constructive alternatives for teenagers in this rural county. "We have no malls, no movie theater, no bowling alley in Elbert," said Strong. "There isn't a lot for teens to do. When they have more time on their hands, we really cannot control what may happen."
The last time the Northeast Georgia Health District surveyed teens about behavior and risk, in 2003, about 38 percent of Elbert County's 15- to 19-year-olds said they were sexually active. Of those, 67 percent had multiple partners and 25 percent said they did not use condoms.
More surprisingly, Elbert County had a teen birthrate of 53 per 1,000 teens during the years 1996 to 2001. That was higher than the national rate, showing why teen pregnancy continues to be a top health concern in northeast Georgia, according to the BART survey.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
May 2nd, 2012
4:22 am
Will it increase teen pregnancy?
At what point do we DEMAND that parents be accountable for their children, and not rely on the nanny state?
May 2nd, 2012
4:25 am
Lack of adult supervision is an established factor in studies of risky behaviors among teenagers,
Well there's an easy answer for THAT. We just ask teachers to make thrice weekly home visits to each student in the class, to increase the home/school connection.
But let's be reasonable and RESPECT the teacher's time. No more than 90 per home visit (unless of course the teacher has more than 25 students, then no more than 75 minutes per home visit)
May 2nd, 2012
4:28 am
I think any good teacher, knowing the role of the school in preventing teen pregnancy should be compelled to give 10% of their salary to teen pregnancy prevention efforts. This should not apply to the superintendent, because they have a stressful job, and it would be unfair to ask them to do that.
Any teacher who balks is obviously not committed to the betterment of children and should be promptly removed from the profession.
May 2nd, 2012
6:08 am
Teen pregnancy has nothing to do with how many days a teenager goes to school. Teenagers are impressionable and all they see from morning until night are sex images on the media. Hormone switches are turned on earlier when all they see and hear is bad adult(?) behavior.
May 2nd, 2012
6:26 am
A lot of workplaces have gone to four ten-hour workdays rather than 5 eight-hour workdays, for efficiency and commuting reasons. But it is a BAD idea in our schools. What will it save? A little bit of diesel fuel from less bus trips? A little heating and air if the thermostats are set higher (or lower)? Or were you planning on paying the teachers only 80% of their salary for doing the same work in four days?
In the olden days (when I was growing up), the school days coincided with most work schedules, so there was not unsupervised time. Day care could take care of the younger kids, but who puts a sixteen year old into day care? We already create a monster problem for parents by scheduling so many breaks throughout the year, why add a Friday every week that parents have to come up with some arrangements for child care?
It seems like a stupid idea to save pennies while creating huge issues.
May 2nd, 2012
6:32 am
There are always two ways to balance a budget – cut costs or raise taxes. Since no one seems to want to raise taxes, just cut eduucation spending, put 100 kids in a classroom, then fail them on their testing, hold them back, rinse and repeat. When they get sixteen (and in the third grade), they can drop out, become criminals, and get busted. They won't go to jail because we are revamping our sentencing of criminals to keep them out of jail, so they will just continue burglarizing the rest of us. (so just call it a tax when you get burglarized).
Simple solution.
May 2nd, 2012
6:33 am
This is interesting, I never thought of Teen Pregnancy as a scheduling issue. It would be interesting to see if Peach County has the same issue as they went to the 4 day schedule a couple of years ago.
May 2nd, 2012
6:47 am
@Jack,… I believe it rests with the number of days the kids go to school, which keeps hands busy instead of idle.
May 2nd, 2012
7:00 am
This is rediculous.
May 2nd, 2012
7:09 am
NCBT, it isn't the hands that cause pregnancy.
Teen pregnancy is a result of lack of goal oriented, long-term planning. Kids who are having sex who have long term plans do not get pregnant, generally.
I don't think the schools should be worried about the sexual mores of its students. Presenting health information? Yes.
The schools have been given too many tasks as it is.
Bev: In the 1960s in Alabama, teachers were required to make 1-2 home visits a year for every student. In the 1970s, I met with every parent twice a year. I went to their homes if they could not come to school. I met one at the DQ, and another at their place of business. I know you are being TIC, but required meetings can help a student a lot.
May 2nd, 2012
7:20 am
I agree that the sexual activity of the students is not the schools responsibility, but when schools go to stupid scheduling that makes it so difficult on parents to adequately supervise their kids, all for a few pennies of savings, then something needs to be said.
I haven't even addressed the issue of student learning that is affected by requiring them to be in school longer hours, therefore they are more tired in the later classes. What about teachers – are they going to be as up in the last class of the day, after ten hours of teaching?
Teen pregnancy is just one unfortunate offshoot of these stupid schedules. What about burglary rates from those "idle hands" on the fifth day? What ARE those students going to do with their free time?
May 2nd, 2012
7:26 am
this is why I have given up trying. I continue to play the pretend game.
May 2nd, 2012
7:40 am
@Mountain Man 7:20 Are you SERIOUS?!!!
May 2nd, 2012
7:41 am
@hmm 7:26 Amen!
May 2nd, 2012
7:45 am
Its not up to the school to babysit your kids. It's YOURS!! What a idiot!
May 2nd, 2012
7:51 am
Beverly Fraud are you crazy? Since when are teachers responsible for children they do not parent?? What does being a teacher have to do with morals taught to students. We are not allowed to teach them in school. Why should we pay for the lack of parenting???
May 2nd, 2012
7:51 am
Let's see – first school's are supposed to accept responsibility for a student's diet. And in many areas, sex education. Now also for teen pregnancy because of a four-day week? What's next – accept responsibility for guaranteeing a 100% rate of placing drop-outs and grads in paying jobs? Or door to door transportation to school because of the dangers of walking or riding in their parent's cars? How about giving the schools a break!
May 2nd, 2012
7:51 am
@Mountain Man. You actually hit a point there. Business owners(and our own Super) stressed the importance of having students in school not necessarily for the education but to keep down the number of B/E's and shoplifting. Retailers hate school holidays and would go nuts if we went to a four day plan.
May 2nd, 2012
7:57 am
There are quite a few things to say about this:
First off, I don't give a rat's a$$ what happens in Elbert County. If this is a primary concern for the people of Elbert, I'd hate to see what other trivial idiocies they deem worthy of scrutiny on a daily basis. Second, this sort of thing would be a moot point if we didn't live in such a nanny/welfare state. Hicks bouncing out babies wouldn't really concern me if my taxes weren't being poured into such a wasteful poverty canyon. Third, as others have already pointed out, this is NOT the province of the school or county or any other government institution. This is the problem of the parents. (However, it becomes the problem of the government because, well, see reason number two. Sigh.)
Oh, and to all of you who routinely dismiss sports as a waste of time and money. Perhaps it's time to reevaluate that position. When I was in high school, my parents were still at work. We were dismissed at 2:10. I had about two hours until my mom made it home from the elementary school. Know what I did with my time? I went to practice. For hours. And I didn't come home until she had been home for a few hours. Then I ate dinner, did my homework, and went to bed.
Funny thing, I didn't get anyone pregnant, do drugs, break into homes, or cause problems. I was too busy. Imagine that. If you want to know the real power of sports, that's it. It KEEPS KIDS BUSY. And healthy. Motivated. Dedicated. Etc.
May 2nd, 2012
7:59 am
Beverly was being tongue-in-cheek. She no more believes that than any of us do.
May 2nd, 2012
8:06 am
So long as government financially supports bad behavior we will continue to get all the bad behavior we financially support. Bad decisions should create bad circumstances for those who make them.
May 2nd, 2012
8:12 am
The mission creep that has encumbered public education for decades has all but paralyzed the ability of teachers to teach and students to learn, as witnessed every day by the anguished posts on this blog. Schools must be able to allocate resources, including budgets and calendar days, to best support the central goal of education. Throwing in yet another responsibility that has nothing to do with learning (except, perhaps, the hard way) just ties one more leash holding back educators from actually imparting needed knowledge and skills, like Gulliver bound by the myriad tiny Lillputian ropes.
Teens free on Mondays? Get employers to allow flexible work time. Require teens to pick up trash, visit seniors, tutor younger students, perform community service or school maintenance. Coordinate with local churches or businesses to prepare a list of needs that teens can fill, and to arrange transportation when necessary. Ask local businesses to allow them to intern or apprentice. They can do useful things and gain work experience, which in itself might help to convince them that they don't want to add raising a child to the mix quite yet.
May 2nd, 2012
8:14 am
So someone explain to me how the four-day week saves the school system so much money? Or is this just another "new" idea that sounds great on paper but in reality is stupid.
May 2nd, 2012
8:14 am
It is just as likely to increase crime as pregency, or increase tv watching or provide more time for a young person to work. Any action can cause another action to take place. If your kid is brought up right then you should not have any thing to worry about.
May 2nd, 2012
8:16 am
@Beverly Fraud – You opening post to kick off this thread of conversation pretty much summed it up. We can all go home now, there is nothing to see here……
May 2nd, 2012
8:18 am
To Mountain Man… The buses do not have to run.. one less meal to provide. one less day to heat or cool schools .. one less day of lights on in school. … Believe it or not this amounts to a lot of money.
May 2nd, 2012
8:20 am
This essay tells me without doubt the America I grew up in is definitely gone with the wind.
Goodbye America. I knew you well.
May 2nd, 2012
8:22 am
mountain man Talk to Murray County. They have been doing this for a couple of years.
May 2nd, 2012
8:23 am
By the way, no one is suggesting that it is the responsibility of the school system to keep the kids from "playing doctor on their new day off, it is simply a disagreement over why the school system feels it is necessary to go to a four-day week. It just adds another problem for parents of teenagers to deal with. Most kids don't have a stay-at-home mom these days, both parents work. I doubt that day cares or camps are magically going to spring up to take care of these kids one day a week. Churches might see the need and step up, if the kids can be made to go. My problem is with what the schools get for wreaking such havoc.
I believe the systems that have gone to this have justified it by saying that since teachers are paid for a 180-day calendar year, we should just cut the calendar year by 20% and cut the teacher's pay by 20%. Sort of like scheduling our workers to work 4-tens but only pay them for 8 hours of work. Voila! instant savings. (I am sure the TEACHERS are going to LOVE this, first no raises, then furlough days, now a 20% cut in salary for the same work).
May 2nd, 2012
8:24 am
"Around 20 teens aged 15 to 18 visit our clinic every week," said Strong, "The majority of them are seeking services including birth control and STD testing and treatment."
Maybe if public schools had effective sex-ed classes, these students wouldn't be running to the health clinic. What an idea! Using the schools to educate young people.
May 2nd, 2012
8:24 am
"mountain man Talk to Murray County"
And how much money have thay saved and where did they save the money?
May 2nd, 2012
8:26 am
i suppose that's a reason to go to school year round? just wondering why the rate of
teen pregnancy doesn't triple in the summertime. what's wrong with getting a part time
job on the 3 day weekend? we have created a culture of teens getting pregnant to receive government
assistance/money and like it or not many of young teens have caught on to it quickly.
May 2nd, 2012
8:26 am
All the changes I have seen in education fall into the category of "it wasn't broke, but we decided to fix it, now it is broke".
May 2nd, 2012
8:29 am
@catlady – As once told to me by a principal in an Atlanta metro area elementary school, "That sounds nice and I would love to do it, but I simply don't have the time to cover that much ground". I point out that the student population at her school (which was K-5) was approximately 600+
I took it her point to mean the student population she was responsible/accountable for was simply too large to implement such an approach.
May 2nd, 2012
8:30 am
"teen pregnancy doesn't triple in the summertime."
There are resources such as summer camps that can be utilized in the summer break.
May 2nd, 2012
8:31 am
By all means… lets let the tail wag the dog.
May 2nd, 2012
8:33 am
I tend to agree with what Mountain Man said, though. I would imagine whatever money is freed up by this cut in work days will surely be wasted elsewhere in baffling ways.
May 2nd, 2012
8:35 am
This may be totalIy unrelated to the topic being discussed, but I would like to apologize for some of my comments on arecent blog about the Trayvon Martin. I have noticed that discussions that become personal are less fruitful than those that respectfully address issuse and not bloggers.
May 2nd, 2012
8:37 am
But what about the "free lunch" kids who won't get that breakfast or lunch? Will they get a voucher at McDonald's?
and conversely it may reduce pregancy for the 20 and 30 something "stay at homers". It's all about the funding and the local Health Department wants more money.
May 2nd, 2012
8:49 am
I am a working mom, with a 6 and 14 year old. Believe me when I tell you that if my school system were to modify the school schedule to only 4 days a week, the county day cares/churches/YMCAs, etc. would all adjust to accommodate this schedule. Many of them currently take these kids after-school, so they would just expand for that one day to have school-age children there all day as it generates extra money for them.
My youngest attends a charter school. One morning as I was "attempting" to drop him off at school, an adminstrator was outside telling parents that they were having plumbing problems and sending all the kids home. Luckily, I have a job that allows me to work from home when needed, so it wasn't a big deal for me. However, the day care that normally picks him up from the school in the afternoons actually called me once they found out about the situation, to find out if I would be needing their services for that day. The childcare facilities do, and would, adjust as necessary.
May 2nd, 2012
8:54 am
Look at the make up iof the teens getting pregnant…not to be a racist…but how about parents and stable homes…but wait, we did away with that with Johnson's Great Society and no one is responsible. the NAACP, and the government worked hard to break up the family and insert the government as the provider and disciplinaring..see waht has happened…Three day weekend…not the problem…breakdown in society as per the Federal Government and other organizations create the problem…Way to go NAACP
May 2nd, 2012
9:14 am
…the Times-Free Press in Chattanooga reported yesterday on the four day week, with Chattooga County Schools boasting, aside from almost $800,000 in budget savings, increased graduation rate, increased test scores, a 73% decrease in discipline referrals for 9-12th grade and decreased absenteeism for both students and teachers
May 2nd, 2012
9:25 am
@Cosby 8:54 We are just as concerned about white teeagers that become pregnant.
May 2nd, 2012
9:42 am
@Catlady, Murray County did not go to four day weeks. We have a three month summer and go back the day after Labor Day instead of early August.
@Mountain Man, I think the savings has been $300,000+ each year. These savings come from heat/air, lights, transportation. The kids come to school 160 days, but those days are extended by about an hour. Our pay cuts come from furloughed professional days, not the reduced number of days that the kids are here.
As for hicks bouncing out babies, we have that problem, too. Maybe we should see when the most babies are being born. If it's in May or June, we'll know it's the school system's fault because we aren't in school during August!
May 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
I'm sorry, this "pregnancy argument" seems silly to me. As a teen, I always found time to get with my girlfriend regardless of how busy I was. Of course, we took precautions and produced no babies.
May 2nd, 2012
10:18 am
Haha! Good point! I wasn't an angel, myself, but no "accidents" happened. Probably two reasons for that:
1. My parents supplemented the lackluster sex ed. program (idiotic Republicans) by telling me the ills of irresponsible sex.
2. Those same parents would have gladly adopted my illegitimate child, had one been produced, because they would most obviously have killed me.
May 2nd, 2012
10:24 am
I got news for you! I know for a fact that some kids are having sex at school! Some of their favorite places to hook up include: (1.) the restrooms (good place for gays to have sex since nobody pays attention to people of the same gender in the restroom), (2.)the weightroom area, (3) in and beneath portable classrooms, (4.) area near the bookroom. Do you really think that having one day less in school will matter if these kids are foucsed on such self-distructive behavior. Who really should be responsible for their sex lifes: The School System?
May 2nd, 2012
10:24 am
Why don't we just teach them about abstinence, problem solved!
/sarcasm font…
May 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
I've found closing my eyes, putting my fingers in my ears, and stomping my feet to be quite effective.
Jesus also works because he's ALWAYS watching.
May 2nd, 2012
10:32 am
The way some of these young behave you would think that having an illegitamate child was equavilant to earning college degree. Some of the have dropped out of college to have babies with absolutely no prospect of a job. Who in their right mind would make such choices. To just throw opportunity down the drain. It is the value sysstem of these people.
May 2nd, 2012
10:35 am
According to a teacher who worked there until this school year, Haralson County has seen an increase in teen pregnancy since going to the 4 day school week.
May 2nd, 2012
10:50 am
Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt!
May 2nd, 2012
11:06 am
Okay, I can't believe we're even having this debate. Kids' attitudes about and particpation in the act are a matter of upbringing, not school attendance. If they're going to do it, a day in school isn't going to stop them. They're idle because their parents don't make them do anything or trust them and let them stay out until all hours of the night. Mine think I'm mean because of the porch light rule at my house. And I hear kids, on school nights, still out after dark. That is NOT the school's fault or our problem to fix.
I read somewhere that the economy also impacts this. The parents are away from home more working extra or are disengaged because of stress and worry. The kids get stressed and guess what? They go looking for a release. Another day in the building at school can't fix that.
Geez, next thing they'll be blaming global warming on the energy production to keep schools running and the awful bus pollution.
May 2nd, 2012
11:18 am
I have always believed women were more motivated than men to accomplish goals and fulfill needs. Sometimes I even believe women are smarter. But that must not come to be until they reach college age. Can you believe that young girls do not believe you can get pregnant having sex. Or they are complete risk takers. Some of course blame the guys but blaming the guys does not put the hardships on them as it does the girls. How can girls not know in today's times? Do they not care because they can run down to the local butcher and get an abortion? One extra day to do it will not increase it what is already happening.
May 2nd, 2012
11:19 am
I thought abstinence education was supposed to stop teen pregnancy.
May 2nd, 2012
11:19 am
Why not take a more educated guess at this? Peach County went to a four day school week for a couple of years before abandoning this last year. Why not take a look at the teenage pregnancy rate in Peach County before and during this change in the school week? I certainly understand that what happens in one county is not a guarantee of what will happen in another county but using this data is better than blindingly guessing.
May 2nd, 2012
11:25 am
OK so have the school system deposit the monthly savings in a bank savings account and have it show up in an independent annual audit along with the teen pregnancy count. FAT CHANCE!!!!!
May 2nd, 2012
11:31 am
Sorry, Batgirl. Guess I got Murray and Chatooga mixed up!
May 2nd, 2012
11:31 am
I was having sex on school days too…so I dunno…
May 2nd, 2012
11:43 am
The only birth-control I needed was a visit to my yankee cousin who had a baby before her sophomore year. Seeing her having to stay at home in July while other 15-16 year old enjoyed their summer, watching my aunt yell "get up" your child needs feeding , was the only visual I needed to keep my legs closed….as we use to say way back when, couple that with my mother shaking her head in despair was all the encouragement I need to reach for higher goals. My neighbor woman use to say "accidents are something you don't see coming, but when it comes to a randy teenage boy I've got 20/20 vision. Doesn't matter whether they go to school 4 or 5 days if there is no family nucleus or a household where women and teenage girls aren't valued, pregnancy will happen especially when the grandmother , mother and daughter were all teen mothers.
May 2nd, 2012
12:14 pm
"Murray County did not go to four day weeks"
Then why set up Murray County as an example of four day weeks? What would $300,000 per year be in percentage? 1%? 1/2% If they have a $30 million school budget, that would be 1%.
May 2nd, 2012
12:36 pm
On a related topic…….Moms, wait to buy that Prom dress. See what tattoos you will need to cover up after the Panama City Spring Break!
May 2nd, 2012
1:10 pm
Given that shcools are little more than subsidized day-care centers for working parents, one would expect problems when the prisoners are let off the leash.
May 2nd, 2012
1:27 pm
I worked in Elbert County for a while. Lots of very poor, drug-adicted folks, both black and white. Very limited middle class. Girls saw having babies as a way to grow up. I worked with a 15 year old girl who had just had a baby. "Grandma" was a 30 year old illiterate person also. I couled foresee what was going to happen to that child before she was 15.
May 2nd, 2012
1:59 pm
This just confirms my opinion that our school system is just an expensive baby sitting service provided to families, but paid for by property owners. It is time to end the property tax system of financing the school systems, and impose a tax on each and every child enrolled in the school system, a head tax if you will, so the beneficiaries of a public education, the child and his/her parents pay for that service, and not some third party such as moi! Let the families benefiting from the school system full fund said system, then maybe there will be some accountability.
May 2nd, 2012
2:43 pm
School should be scheduled six days per week, Monday through Saturday. Only off days would be when all levels(local, state, and federal) of government are closed for a holiday and Sundays. Doing this could permit greater use of facilities and hopefully an attainment of a more highly educated populus. Additionally, academic terms could be scheduled with a greater variety of factors considered such as climate, intelligence grouping, readiness, desired outcomes, etc.. Even more could be done if schools were open year round to further accelerate the process for those so inclined and also provide all schools, except administrators, the opportunity for more paid days of contract employment.
May 2nd, 2012
6:43 pm
Wow! You are all so scary…I see the prevailing philosophy of everyone else being responsible for raising your kids is still going strong. I promise you, as a teacher, I'm already spending a lot of time trying to help your children learn responsibility and accountability. No worries about having to pay teachers for time not worked, our paychecks have been cut so much – furlough days – that most of us aren't making what we would make for four days, so you're getting a bargain – more days much less pay! Since MOST teachers put in WAY more hours than bell to bell, it would be great to have a four day work week; then I might have time to get a part time job! Bottom line, if you have never been a classroom teacher, you have NO idea of which you speak, so stop trying to act like you do!
May 2nd, 2012
7:32 pm
Few Points — Bill Nigut did a Frontline show in about 1992 about the sexual patterns of tweens (yes, tweens, not teens) out I-20 in Rockdale (I think — I'm doing this from memory, while I had a toddler….) — It was appalling — these tweens were watching and mimicing porn after school in very high-end neighborhoods (with security gates etc.) — white kids — and they showed sexual patterns and diseases (male and female) of prostitutes…. it was quite eye opening. My take away from the episode — which I've really done, I think, a good job with for my now teens — is that they are to have very little "down time" alone and we discuss condoms and birth control. We "hold court" and discuss how the boys must pay child support and how it is important for the boys to be with girls their age or older. We discuss the Duke lacrosse case and the Tennessee pizza guy case of examples of "guilty until proven innocent." Secondly, abstinence doesn't work — evidence "A" Sarah Palin's daughter. Third, "teenager" as a concept was invented by a professor at Johns Hopkins in 1908 or 1909 — the harmones and the body have historically and are around the world treated as adults. You have grandparents and greatgrandparents who were married and traveling around the globe, alone, and having babies as teens. Teens go off to war. Teens have gone to work. Teens have created empires. Teens have been put in charge of empires. It's only in America in the 20th and now 21st century that we "baby" our teens and our teens have these inconsistent mesages being received into their bodies and brain waves, along with very adult harmones and bodies. Then we wonder why they want to have sex and why they wind up in jail and make stupid decisions……
May 3rd, 2012
9:38 am
on the other hand…:
Thanks for sharing the link about Chatooga County moving to a 4 day week. IMO, this blog should discuss their successes and question whether that could scale to larger school districts, such as those in the metro area.
I agree with the other posters that there is no correlation between the length of the school week and the teen pregnancy rate.


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Playbill Playlist: Sierra Boggess shares her favourite Andrew Lloyd Webber songs in an interview with playbill.com (21 Aug 2013)
i love her and her music (or at least taste in it) so much! i hope to sing all of these songs one day :)
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