Less than one-fifth the largest school districts offer paid parental leave for teachers, and only a handful of states guarantee it — like Oregon. That leaves few options for educators who want to start a family.
she found herself educating lawmakers on basic biology to get her point across.
Maybe lawmakers should be taking basic empathy classes too because this is dystopian as hell. And they wonder why the younger generations don’t want kids?!
And they wonder why people don’t want to be school teachers. Between crazy hours, low pay and this crap, why would you?