This one is my favorite.

We need better leave policies in general in the States, kids or no kids. At my last job, with a giant national firm, everyone started out earning 10 days of leave. No differentiation between sick or vacation, just 10 days of leave. This from a company that would also gladly have you work over 40 hours a week but not…

*All* workers should be treated better, but you’re doing nobody any favors by trying to equate paid parental leave and things like paid sabbaticals. Parents and non-parents will not always face the same issues. There are pros and cons to each. But you’re trying to compare apples and oranges here.

It should be once every couple years, because people generally have multiple children, but I would settle for something equivalent to “caretaker leave” if a non-immediate family member or friend get sick.

THIS CHART THO. It needs to be put up EVERYWHERE because it’s so shameful! I don’t understand how people can look at that, and be like, nope, let’s just keep that exactly the way it is, no worries! *pulls hair out*

Even Greenland has maternity leave, and only 7 people live there.

The wording used in the statement is “highly qualified.”

In my state, there has been some alleged—never proven, but alleged—collusion between the fingerprint labs and the state government. Remember, it’s a prime contract for any lab, and the fact that it’s required of all teachers makes it even more lucrative.

My mom was a teacher until she retired a few years ago, and the rule in her school district was that you had to get re-fingerprinted every 5 years. And you had to pay for it. Why????

Many years ago, the state in which I went to college instituted required fingerprinting and background checks for everyone working with students. A friend who had been a teacher in this town’s school system for 20 years joined several other teachers in asking an intriguing question: why should she need to be…

I’d like to pretend that this is the worst injustice I’ve heard about in regards to a teacher, but I have personally witnessed SO much worse.
Its too often a thankless profession, and it chews people up and spits them out. I only lasted 2.5 years before I finally cracked. Now I’m in adult education, working half as…

Just what Alabama needs. Fewer good teachers.

Gender identity is biological. Racial identity is social. When you are transgender, it is literally how your body is hardwired. When you claim to be a race that you are not, you are pretending.

I was born a Polish human girl, but I really identify with the bradypus sloth. Does that get me any love or ridicule around these parts? I’m adorable, vegetarian, and I only poop once a week!

Here are a few pieces that explain the differences:

She may be walking back the texture of her hair, but it looks like she’s doubling down on the self tanner.

I can’t watch the video, but does RD address if she thought she would never be exposed? It’s so weird that she thought she’d go through her entire life and nobody would say “you do realize you’re a white woman, right?”

She may have been born white, but in her heart she will always be Hawaiian Tropic #3a Medium/Dark.

This is the proper place for her to talk about her nonsense. On a panel with black women. All along this is exactly what this story needed - not white men, or white women, or black men. Her actions are an affront to black women and that is who needs to talk to her and set her straight. Bravo.

I just don’t understand how she hasn’t been in bed under like 4 comforters since this happened. How is she not mortified? I wish I could watch this video, I hate work.