In the third episode of High School Confidential we met Jessi. Jessi was “terribly, terribly shy” when she was a child so her mom put her in acting and she loved it. Her parents were engaged, but split up before Jessi was born. She never met her father.
When asked what she expected from her first year in high school, Jessi said she expected it to be terrifying. She also said she thinks there will be a lot of teen pregnancies and teen drug addicts. She was worried because she never felt like she fit in.
Her freshman year did not go …read more

Yesterday I talked about a mom who I believe did not handle the news of her daughter’s pregnancy very well. Cheryl even admitted she could have handled it better when she found out her fifteen-year-old daughter, Justine was pregnant. I don’t know the whole story. We only saw glimpses of their life and the whole nine month’s of pregnancy was condensed in to about about ten minutes, but it seemed like Cheryl was only thinking about how the pregnancy affected her rather than how it was affecting her teenage daughter. It also seemed that Cheryl made the decision to give …read more

In episode 2 of High School Confidential, we met Courtney and her family. Courtney was a good girl who relied on her faith to help her make the right decisions. She was a cheerleader and a soccer player with hopes to play soccer in college.
As they interviewed Courtney before she entered high school they asked her what she expected and about peer pressure. Courtney said she was not planning on drinking or having sex or any of those things. Just the other day I asked my son if he was ready for high school and if he thought there would …read more

Have you been watching the show High School Confidential? It is the brain child of Sharon Liese, a single mom of a twelve-year-old daughter. The show documents the lives of 12 girls from the start of their freshman year in high school until their graduation and everything in between. All twelve girls attended Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. The school has around 1,200 students. The show touches on unwanted pregnancy, sex, drinking, drugs, health crises and family issues. We see the girls through boyfriends, friendships, heartache and maturity.
I thought the show sounded interesting so I’ve been TiVoing it, …read more