Bringing your *new* baby to school....

[luvmy2angels]

Problem here all....recent member of class had a baby. Now, so far our school has been VERY strict about pretty much everything. Now, I understand that this student is a single mother, on assistance and struggling (well, who isn't nowadays). But anyways she was recently told by our instructor that she can bring her baby to class with her so she doesn't have to miss time. We have class one night a week and we ALWAYS have a test that night because the rest of the week we are in clinical. A lot of the students are complaining that it is distracting, granted she is pretty quiet for the most part but she gets passed around from person to person to be held for the 5 hours we are there and it IS distracting! Plus there are people in class that have had to miss class time because of "children" problems, babysitter couldn't come or whatever....these students feel it is unfair that she was given the choice to BRING her baby to class but others missed time! Something just isn't right about this situation. I don't want to sound like a mean person because I DO want to see her succeed and finish school but at the same time COME ON!!!!!! :angryfire Am I wrong for feeling this way????

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

9 weeks

9 days would have been too long. 9 weeks??? Ridiculous.

[HomeofLove4Him]

ITA w/Woogy! Coming from the standpoint of a married mom on some form of assistance, sorry, but I have little compassion for this woman. I mean, yes, its gotta be tough to be a single mom just trying to better herself so she's not in this situation for the rest of her life. But yanno what? I got married at 19, then had my first two later that same year (twins). Couple yrs later, child #3, and last Christmas child #4. All planned, and all *our choice*. I will be 25 on Thanksgiving. So for the past 6yrs, I have been unable to pursue anything more than distance learning, b/c my hubby has at many times worked 2 jobs to provide for us, and frankly, there's no way we could have afforded childcare anyway. How lovely it would have been for me to start nursing school when my twins were newborns, never skipping a beat in my life and carrying on to pursue a career. Heck, 6yrs later, I could be a frickin nurse practitioner by now....not just starting LPN school in January! Too frickin bad, b/c we CHOSE to have our children before I completed school. So, I've had to pursue degrees available via distance learning all these years. FINALLY the time is right for me to be able to pay for childcare and go to school and I'm doing it. And I'd be DARNED if someone ELSE would jeopardize my one shot at nursing school. As for playing the "it's not fair" card.....It's *NOT* fair, on so many levels. I could save $$$ in childcare each wk if I could bring my kids to school, so it's not fair there.....but the most important way it's not fair is academically; it's not fair to jeopardize everyone else's chance at nursing school--particularly those who have 1) waited til their kids were older, or 2) finally get the chance-- b/c you have a baby. Too darn bad. *shrug*

PS.....glad to hear something was done about this!!!

[Goldenhare]

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