Thursday, January 15, 2004
Maternity leave for High Schoolers???
New York has decided to grant maternity leave to pregnant hi-school students! Itz estimated that abt 20k students in New York City wud be "benefitted" by this decision, 8k of them are under 17 yrs. Without going into the merits/demerits of this decision, what should make ppl start thinking is the very fact hi-schoolers need maternity leave. If in India there is one kind of fight against pregnancy among minors, in America itz a different struggle.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
--Swami Vivekananda
New York has decided to grant maternity leave to pregnant hi-school students! Itz estimated that abt 20k students in New York City wud be "benefitted" by this decision, 8k of them are under 17 yrs. Without going into the merits/demerits of this decision, what should make ppl start thinking is the very fact hi-schoolers need maternity leave. If in India there is one kind of fight against pregnancy among minors, in America itz a different struggle.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
--Swami Vivekananda
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