Wow, try this stunt in the workplace: New Lawsuits Shine a Light on Pregnancy Discrimination
Stephanie Stewart, an honors student at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on an academic scholarship, was due to deliver her son before the end of the spring semester in 2012. She needed some accommodations because she would not be able to attend every session of her women’s studies class. Stewart figured her professor would be understanding—it was a women’s studies class. But she wasn’t. The professor told Stewart that she wouldn’t be able to make up any tests or assignments she missed due to doctor’s appointments or labor and delivery. “When I received a backlash from her and no support from her, I was extremely stunned. I felt disrespected,” Stewart says.
Unbelievable. As Glenn Reynold comments:
I dunno, if she’d said she had to miss class for an abortion it might have been okay.
In this “mixed up, muddled up, shook up world” Glenn just may be right.
Huh. Where I went to school, you were able to make up assignments and tests if you had a note from a doctor that you would be absent (or were absent) because you needed medical attention. That was school policy. Despite what her women’s studies professor said, she should check on what her school’s policy is on that.