Walking through the halls, child on her hip, backpack on, she heads to class, ignoring the stares of her classmates.

To teach the responsibility of parenting, the human growth and development classes created fake babies out of bags of flour and had to carry them around for the week of Oct. 17.

“My baby was a girl and her name was Alydia Mae Clark,” sophomore Trinity Clark said.

The main objective of this project is to prove to these students that they aren’t ready for a child while they are still in high school. Mrs. D’Anna Roseberry teaches this class. Throughout the weeks leading up to and during the project, she had them watch videos on birth, c-sections and other things pertaining to having a child.

“The purpose of this activity was to show us how much work it is to lug a baby around 24/7,” sophomore Sarah Porter said. “It definitely shows a small portion of the responsibility needed to have a kid and we really didn’t even need to do anything, just remember to carry it around. They weren’t fussy or squirmy, and we didn’t need to feed or change it.”

The students were required to carry their baby everywhere with them, and they were allowed to have a “babysitter”, however if they did have a babysitter they were required to “pay” them in some way shape or form.

“I didn’t have a babysitter, but Mrs. Roseberry told us to pay them in treats or favors, so something like candy or doing the dishes,” Porter said.