homeschoolers don't

I never thought schools actually did this either, until last year when one of the siblings had to care for a stupid egg for a week. In TV, I've also seen variations with animatronic baby dolls (that makes a lot more sense than eggs) or sacks of flour. My personal theory is it's an artifact from when teen pregnancy was considered a much bigger problem (even though it was in decline for a lot of the 20th century), and school curriculums just throw it in nowadays because they run low on stuff to teach. I never had to do that going up through school thankfully. I think the logic is that eggs are like babies? If you drop an egg, it cracks. If you drop a baby, it cracks. If you abandon an egg, it will go bad. If you abandon a baby, it will go bad. If you put an egg in a pan of boiling water, it will get hardboiled...

Anyways, the school district I was in really tried to push abstinence during my last 2 years of high school, beginning with the 8th grade up. Maybe they thought showing kids that "babies" were difficult to care for was a better idea than showing kids pictures of STD-infected body parts? I don't know, I think it's dumb too.

egg baby thing didn't exist in our school. If you took psychology, though, there was this one experiment or something where you had to take care of a bag of flour dressed up like a baby. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of that was, though, since I didn't take that class.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EggSitting

I know about the trope, I was just wondering if in the US it is also a case of Aluminum Christmas Trees (or just a widespread trope that doesn't have any factual basis in real life). I wanted to know if that sort of stuff was still done on American schools or if it has been long done away with. Because the entire thing is really ridiculous. Take an egg home, ignore it for a week and suddenly you are a super-amazing parent?

if I was given an egg and was supposed to keep it in tact, i'd boil it, and just put it in my pocket. you can hit it as much as you want, and you'll still have it. then when grading time comes, take another egg from home for the grade.

stupid enough :/

In israel the fight against teen pregnancy is just nonexistent. I mean yaeh, we're taught about preventive measures, but that's it, and it's like 1 hour a year.