American U. Prof Adrienne Pine faces backlash from students over in class breastfeeding
The first think they should do is do away with the dumb class on principle. We are mis-educating generations of silly navel gazers. Man, there are some great jokes in this story just dying to get out!
Professor who breastfed her sick baby during FEMINIST lecture faces backlash from offended students
On the first day of her Sex, Gender Culture class at Washington, D.C.s American University, Professor Adrienne Pine was faced with a dilemma: abandon her students and care for her sick newborn, or bring her baby to work. She chose the latter.
Throughout the lecture, Lee crawled around the floor, fussed a little, and grew hungry.
Professor Pine quickly breastfed her daughter in front of the 40 students, not thinking anything of her actions until a reporter began to hound her, students began blasting her anonymously on the school newspapers website and American University itself damned her actions.
The rest via Mail Online.
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Actually I think the feeding is irrelevant. I’m amazed that she thought it was her “best option” to bring her sick 1 year old baby to class. Students pay a lot of money to be there. Does she not realize how distracting this is for students???? Apparently not. My own son is super busy working his way through college and he knows to speak up for himself when there is a problem like this. I was thinking of him when I read this story. I’m a working mom myself and never did I bring my kids to work with me. My mother was a single mom with 6 kids and NEVER did she take us to work with her. You either take the day off or have one of your back up babysitters help you. If you don’t have back up sitters then start getting sociable so you can have people’s phone numbers when you are in a pinch like this. That’s called having priorities. That’s why 99% of parents don’t bring children to work with them.
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I think this professor is irresponsible, inconsiderate and selfish to not think of
how her students could be distracted or even gotten sick themselves from her sick baby. But the students themselves as young adults would have to speak up and state their opinion on whether it’s distracting for them. I raised my son to speak up for himself when he gets to college because I wouldn’t be there to do it for him. He doesn’t attend that college though. But I know there were students there in the classroom who were distracted but never said anything during class. I think they should have. The highest priority in the classroom to get students full attention. That means minimizing if not eliminating all distractions. It also means behaving and dressing professionally.