Here’s a statistic for you.

Every 10 minutes, a teenager in Texas is getting pregnant, and with the nation's third-highest teen birth rate, Texas stakeholders have announced a "teen pregnancy crisis."

I guess it is no wonder that I started the school year with three mothers among my 60 ninth grade girls, and one more pregnant to the point of bursting. I’m sure that there will be several more pregnancies before the year ends. And the sad thing is that I’ve reached the point where I’m not even surprised by the extent to which teen pregnancy happens among my students.