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What do you think? For this particular class I think it was a great teaching moment. Now if it was a math class it might not have been such a good idea.
I think when my child is sick with a fever, I take off work (cancel class if I can't find anyone to cover for me) to stay home with her.
On the very rare occasion one of our faculty does wind up bring a child to work for whatever reason, we find someone willing to let child hang out in their office when them while we teach our class.
If her kid usually goes to daycare, then surely she had some bottles of pumped milk all set and has herself on a pumping schedule. So I don't see that breastfeeding WHILE teaching was necessary. What point was she trying to make?
I have no problem with someone breastfeeding in public (unless one feels the need to disrobe from the waist up to do it.)
But this was unprofessional. It distracted her from teaching and obviously distracted the class from paying attention to what she was saying.
The event was predictable, and she should have had a plan in place to respond to it by the time she returned to work. Was this the first time her child was sick? What will she do next time?
I see no mention whether she attempted to give the baby a bottle first. How is the child fed at day care?
Then, she exposed everyone to whatever illness the baby had.
Finally, she is in an area where there are people who do take care of sick children, as shown on a search site linked to the American University site. She should have considered that when she chose a day care center.
I think that it was unprofessional of her to bring her sick baby to class and breastfeed during a lecture BUT it was a feminist anthropology class so.....
ETA: The name of the class was "Sex, Gender and Culture" If there ever was a class where it was ok for a professor to breastfeed her sick child while lecturing, this would be the class.
I think that it was unprofessional of her to bring her sick baby to class and breastfeed during a lecture BUT it was a feminist anthropology class so.....
ETA: The name of the class was "Sex, Gender and Culture" If there ever was a class where it was ok for a professor to breastfeed her sick child while lecturing, this would be the class.
My point exactly. I understand this was her first class. Hard to call in sick when you have a classroom full of students sitting there waiting.
What do you think? For this particular class I think it was a great teaching moment. Now if it was a math class it might not have been such a good idea.
Though I would agree with students it is a distraction and takes away from the class. I'm blaming 50% school (no emergency back-up options for sick kids) and blaming the teacher 50% (she didn't prepare for this eventuality)
Nothing wrong with that- better to witness this wonderful sight than to watch some woman who has had a partial sex change with a plastic hose coming out of a surgical incision...feeding a child conceived with a turkey baster... I love seeing young families our for a stroll with the father and mother and child...enjoying their wonderful life- natural normal stuff is great- Too much weirdness going on to put down a natural mother......long as the kid is not a projectile vomiting little monster- nothing worse than taking the kid in your arms after the mother has done her job and get second hand breast milk all over you chest...
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