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The hidden costs of parental leave Balancing parenting and the teaching profession receive ten of at the beginning of each calendar year. “This is very tough, Last June, English especially for working moms,” said. “Whatever teacher Sheri Horwitz took Horwitz her third maternity leave. time is left that isn’t part The U.S. Department of of the paid leave comes out Labor’s Family and Medical of my personal sick days. When she came back Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 requires employers to provide this year she didn’t have any 12 weeks of unpaid leave for sick days left because she used them as part of the new parents. maternity leave. In Ann Arbor · The Family and Medical “Which is Public Schools Leave Act of 1993 requires really hard for ( A A P S ) , AAPS to provide up to 12 working moms,” teachers are weeks of unpaid or paid, she said. “I don’t eligible for the job-protected leave to eligible have sick days to p r o t e c t i o n s employees for certain family give, so I have to of the FMLA and medical reasons be really careful given they · Eligible - worked for AAPS about taking any have worked for atl 1 year and 1,250 hours sort of days off. in the district over the past 12 months So if my kids are for at least one Method used for calculations sick, my husband year and for is “rolling” 12-month period has to always stay 1,250 hours measured backward from home to [take over the past the date an employee uses a care of them], 12 months. FMLA leave because I don’t Of the 12 · Employees are required to have the days.” weeks of leave use any available sick time To apply guaranteed · FMLA leave begins on the for maternity by the FMLA, employee’s first day off work leave, teachers AAPS pays have to fill out a teachers for six weeks, with the remaining form indicating the expected six weeks being unpaid. date of their child’s birth, Teachers are then required to how many weeks they are
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Teachers face challenges with limited maternity leave policies. For teachers in AAPS, they are not guaranteed pay beyond six weeks of maternity leave. GRAPHIC BY ANNA LEE
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The Huron Greenhouse in the early fall. PHOTO BY ISHA SAVI
The Greenhouse Club has been up and running since the beginning of September and has quite a bit planned for the year ahead. The club started a few years ago when a student approached advisor Mrs. Lemon about creating an aquaponics system for his Personal Project. The project soon unfolded into a
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long-term club that has been thriving over the years. “Not everyone gets to see the greenhouse, even though it’s really beautiful. I feel special when I’m in there to take care of the plants,” said co-president Anna Stenger While the main purpose of the club is to take care of the greenhouse and the plants that reside within it, they do have a variety of fundraising events coming up. “We have a plant sale during parent-teacher
conferences and we usually do a plant sale before Mother’s Day week in the cafeteria,” Lemon said, “I was thinking we’d do one in the fall as well.” The money from these fundraisers goes directly back to the club, allowing them to buy more tools and resources to care for the plants. Greenhouse Club meets every Monday in room 5205 and is always open to new members.