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Donald Ian Rankin

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9. Access to a private place sounds eminently reasonable, and extra 20 minutes a day off less so.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 06:37 AM

Sep 2014

I can imagining that rescheduling a school day to arrange cover for a teacher while they take an extra 20 minutes a day off could place a lot of pressure on other staff, and I'm not convinced it's fair to do that.

But arranging access to somewhere appropriate in, for example, her lunch break, does not sound like much to ask.

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Miami-Dade teachers want breastfeeding rights [View all] alp227 Sep 2014 OP

.. littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #1

that's what her lunch break is for - personal business nt msongs Sep 2014 #2

Have you seen teachers' "lounges"? No privacy. Mine had the lunch tables next to the LAV doors! WinkyDink Sep 2014 #10

I've met teachers who've been able to do it, but only Ilsa Sep 2014 #3

This was the first thing I noticed when I quit teaching 25 years ago Yupster Sep 2014 #7

i worked with one woman who was a difficult as humanly possible every step of the way brewens Sep 2014 #4

This is not a cogent response. MissMarple Sep 2014 #8

I have never had a child so I don't know marym625 Sep 2014 #5

A lactating breast needs to have milk removed at regular vanlassie Sep 2014 #6

Thank you! n/t marym625 Sep 2014 #15

You are unfamiliar with the way schools, and "breaks," are set up. WinkyDink Sep 2014 #11

Not true marym625 Sep 2014 #16

Access to a private place sounds eminently reasonable, and extra 20 minutes a day off less so. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #9

There are NO "private places" in schools! My h.s. had exactly 3 toilets for 40 teachers*; one WinkyDink Sep 2014 #12

Any school which ostensibly exists to teach... Is at odds with its own purpose if it makes it vanlassie Sep 2014 #13

When I managed our clinic, I told breastfeeding mothers to phylny Sep 2014 #14

That's awful. tammywammy Sep 2014 #17

There is no other species that asks permission to feed its young malaise Sep 2014 #18

Malaise, don't wonder. Yes, corporations are a part of the vanlassie Sep 2014 #19

Women need to know that malaise Sep 2014 #20

It turns out that advertising "special" additives can convince poorly educated women and their vanlassie Sep 2014 #21