A principal is standing by his story that girls in his Massachusetts high school formed a plan to get pregnant.

Gloucester (GLAW’-stur) High School principal Joseph Sullivan denies in a statement Thursday that he could not remember details of his story when pressed.

Sullivan maintains the city saw a huge spike in pregnancies because a group of girls planned to have babies and raise them together.

He says he learned of the plan from the school health clinic’s former nurse practitioner and through “chatter.”

He says the intense attention has distorted the reality of the situation.