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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kindergartner's teacher had her baby right at the end of the 2015-2016 school year (before we were in her class). She is taking a full maternity leave, and will return to her class (with my child in it) in mid-October.

The good news is that her assistant teacher started the year with the class (under the sub) and will continue in that role when the teacher returns. We know him from aftercare last year and my child loves him and always hugs him goodbye at pickup time. So we've got stability and continuity of operations.

The bad news is that the class has had a couple of different subs and the kids don't seem to have gotten their feet under them yet. Every day one or more of them still has a screaming don't-leave-me tantrum at dropoff. My own child, who has always been breathtakingly easygoing and even-keeled, now freaks out and bursts into tears for reasons like "it's a PE day and THESE SHORTS ARE TOO THICK!!".  Generally my child deals just fine with change, provided it's change from Steady State A to Steady State B. Flux, on the other hand, is rough for everybody.

Long story short, I agree with the subject line, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the teacher or her choices. [b]Rather, it has everything to do with the same system that punished me when I had my kids. A maternity leave should not create a gaping hole in the fabric of your operation. This is something that can, and should, be foreseen and worked around.[/b][/quote]

This.  The "OMG whatever will we do, let's put together a hodgepodge, slapdash response to this as if it were a completely novel, non-repeatable event that will leave everything in dysfunction for 12 weeks" response employers have to maternity leave is pathetic and leaves everyone in the lurch.  Not unique to schools in the slightest, every employer I've had seems completely unprepared when an employee takes maternity/paternity leave, like it's not a completely normal human life event to have a child.  [/quote]

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