School can be stressful as it is, and sometimes life can add to that, especially for teen parents.<\/p>\n
At Surfside High in Oceanside, however, staff members are supporting student parents all the way through graduation.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrength isn\u2019t always loud,\u201d says Juliana Arispe, who just graduated from Surfside High. “Sometimes it\u2019s a young mom holding her baby in one arm and her future in the other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old Arispe had fallen behind on her school credits, but with Surfside\u2019s educational model, she was able to catch up and graduate ahead of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was able to come to school and, like, be able to do my schoolwork, be able to be in class and know that he\u2019s perfectly OK here,” Arispe said.<\/p>\n
TheOceanside Unified School District recognizes how critical it was to keep its child development center open.<\/p>\n
\u201cFunding has been difficult for a lot of districts in maintaining this program,\u201d said Eric Frandsen, the principal of Surfside High. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s a priority. I mean, we\u2019re all about making sure we\u2019re meeting the needs of the kids where they\u2019re at, and the fact of the matter is: There\u2019s a lot of teen parents out there, and they need a place to build a future.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Child Development Center, staff help mothers with laundry, give them clothing and, most important, accept transfers from students year-round.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s going to grow up knowing that his momma never gave up to do anything and still graduated on time with having a kid at a young age,” Arispe said.<\/p>\n
Arispe hopes other teen moms keep chasing their dreams and education.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because you had a baby at a young age doesn\u2019t mean your future is ruined,\u201d Arispe said. “Just don\u2019t give up, because I wanted to give up so many times, but I did it for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Surfside High accepts applications and transfers from teen parents year-round, even from other school districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School can be stressful as it is, and sometimes life can add to that, especially for teen parents.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,18010,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-198144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-oceanside","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115143129392023468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}