Gaby Rodriguez was a senior in high school and all was going well, she was smart, pretty, had a boyfriend, all was good. All was good but one thing, a stereotype. This stereotype was she was bound to be pregnant before she was out of high school, just like her mother, sisters, and her brother getting a girl pregnant before they were out of high school. “People always seemed to expect that I'd follow the same path just because I'm Latina and a part of this family” (Rodriguez). All things Gaby wanted to prove wrong, but things don’t go as planned. After thinking about it Gaby realized that this is not all a bad thing and she wanted to challenge the idea that a stereotype has to define your future or if it does not. So Gaby wanted to do something to define that stereotype and faked a pregnancy for her senior project. …show more content…
She gave each of them a notebook and told them to write down everything they hear, good or bad. Gaby then told her friend and gave her a notebook for writing quotes down. As time went on the story got out. “Gaby’s classmates treated her with less respect, saying she ‘wouldn't graduate and go to college’” (Dodd). Her teachers started looking at her differently and her favorite teacher started treating her differently and didn’t sign a recommendation paper for the college she wanted to go to. Gaby knew this project was going to be tough going through hearing all of the things said about her, but she never knew there was going to be this