Without paid family leave, teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies (www.opb.org)

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[-] marin@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

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?!

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

And they wonder why people don’t want to be school teachers. Between crazy hours, low pay and this crap, why would you?

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