Reimagining the experience a parenting student has on a college campus is an opportunity to reimagine young adulthood in our society.
is a three-part series examining the realities that teen parents face in trying to access four-year college — from lack of structural support to stigma — and how they plan to shift the notion of what a "traditional" college experience is, and who "average" students are.
Lynsie Kimple is 18, a high school senior, and gets straight A's. She works several part time jobs, cleaning houses and waiting tables at a large chain restaurant. She is also the parent of one-year-old Quyntin. “[It’s like] all stages of your life being thrown together at once,” Kimple says about being a young parent.
Kimple had her baby in December 2020, during the pandemic. Before that, she says her high school gave her the option of finishing a semester’s worth of work early, which she did. But around two weeks after she gave birth, classes started up again and she was fielding emails from her school asking her toto virtual class — both to mark attendance, and because Kimple says she hadn’t been given the option to work ahead on second-semester lessons.
She’s tasked with completing her class assignments, doing homework, working a full eight hours a day , and caring for her son. Aside from a child care program that allows her to swap points that she earns by getting good grades and attendance at school for diapers and other baby supplies, Kimple has found little structural support available in her community. As a teen parent, “I have more things I have to try to fit in one day to make sure my baby and I thrive,” Kimple says.
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