Incentives for SAHMs - anyone read Fiona Phillips today?

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Link here

I think if you can get past the slightly guilt-inducing title, what she is basically saying is quite interesting. It's the first thing I've read in a while that doesn't write SAHMs off as useless bovine idiots.

Obviously don't want to start the old fight of working vs sahm, but what do we think about some kind of incentive for mums to stay at home?

FWIW I have recently become a SAHM by accident after stupid sexist boss forced me out of my job - I am taking him to a tribunal. I am looking for work but am pregnant so not sure how that'll go down with potential employers! I'd like to work PT ideally but I feel really under pressure from everyone around me to get a job and stop being a "boring" SAHM.

1dilemma, I agree I played the system but it's a system that's unique to teaching due to the long hols.

I know many teachers who have done exactly the same, some even put the first day of the holidays as their return date. Lots of teachers plan their pregnancies around being able to stretch their mat leave by taking it up to the hols.

Teachers with babies due in Aug or Sept never start their mat leave when we break in July. If baby is born during the break they start it on the baby's birth day or if baby born Sept they start it on the first day back. Therefore, they're still getting payed f/t without eating into their ML and they don't need to be there.

It's a quirky perk of the job which helps make up for all the days hols where we go into work, all the governors and parents evenings and all the work I used to find myself doing on a Sunday afternoon when I was F/T.

FWIW, they wouldn't have paid the poor temp teacher over the holidays as hers was a term time only contract so they may as well be paying me. In most other jobs they would start paying the permanent employee again when they stopped paying the temp. It's just that in most other cases the permanent employee would be required to physically be there during the next 6wks.

Cushioncover wasn't meaning to criticise since the system is set up that way I am completely neutral as to how you use it (IYSWIM) although you are talking to the one with winter babies who was/still aiming for July!!Was just trying to use it as example for starlight.
Starlight in view of that then there is nothing else you can do you are clearly not mucking them around just working within thier rules!

Oh I wasn't offended!
Just wanted to clarify what usually happened.

Oh and just FYI, most teachers try for autumn/winter babies!