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Nowhere Else to Go

Season 1 | Episode 3 | ABC2 | February 25, 2009

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Personal and social capability

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Jacinta is one of the new girls. She used to be an A-grade student but her self-esteem is now low. She's also feeling ill. Morning sickness is preventing her from going to school and she's starting to think that something is wrong.

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26:48 | Published 9 years ago

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Decisions Decisions

In this second episode of the compelling four-part series, Plumpton High Babies, school principal Glenn Sargeant is determined to give the girls at Plumpton High a chance at education and a hopeful future.

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52:01 | Published 9 years ago

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The Girls Most Likely

In Sydney's outer western suburbs is a school that looks like any other. But at Plumpton High, there is something quite unique. It's a young mothers program that helps teenage mothers stay at school. There is no program like it anywhere in the world. There are schools that cater for pregnant girls or young mothers, but nowhere that integrates them into the general student population like Plumpton does. The idea, pioneered by principal Glen Sargeant, was to stop pregnant girls being forced out of school and onto welfare.

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26:44 | Published 12 years ago

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A Baby's Not a Doll

Kirsty wants to be a lawyer, but even getting to class seems to be a bit much sometimes. Having a boyfriend who wants her to stay home with their baby doesn't help the situation.

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