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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
It's worth noting that many teachers take significant amounts of time off to be mothers. When they return to teaching their pension is not worth very much.
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Do teachers take more parental leave than people in other professions? If not, then this is just an individual's choice to trade time off while young in exchange for working more later in life.
I think the big thing there is most jobs don't offer people that opportunity, so if it is available to teachers, that's just yet another perk of being a teacher and not something we need to feel bad for them about. It's a sweet deal. Anybody else would lose their job for that and be starting from square one when they finally decided to get back to work.