"Tenure" has nothing to do with it. If you have civil service protections, yet are supposedly "at will" during the probationary period, a school or school district still can't fire you for pregnancy or in any other protected category. The challenge for anybody wrongly fired is proving discrimination.
However, although both teachers said they had a good relationship with the children, the parents, and the school administration, Suero said that in her case, everything changed when she announced she was pregnant.
“The principal, Evelyn Hey, told me that she wanted a teacher who was going to be with the children for the entire year,” said Suero, age 24, who will give birth in February and promised to only take one month of maternity leave.
Hey told Suero, “I would love for you to come back, but I had a daughter and she got sick with a heart condition, and it took me seven years to return,” indicating to her that teachers have to plan to give birth in the summertime.
[Because the teachers worked at a charter school] “They don’t have the same type of protection that union members have. They can be dismissed without a reason,” said Richard Riley, head of public relations for the United Federation of Teachers.
Riley is either a moron or a liar. That isn't true at all. Pregnancy discrimination is illegal no matter what the employer is or whether or not there is a union.
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