In an interview for CNN, Marcella Mares denounces how one of her teachers violently humiliated her in front of her whole class for asking her, in private, if she could turn off her camera when she is breastfeeding her baby. Camera which must be turned on due to distance learning courses. Revolted, she did not let it go and obtained justice.
Breastfeeding feeds the newborn baby through the mother's breast. A process that has long been taboo, as society viewed a mother's breast as a sexual asset, not just a limb containing breast milk. Nowadays, we fight so that breastfeeding is recognized as a completely normal and natural act, and from which we should not hide.
Unfortunately, not everyone seems to think like this. Marcella Mares, mother of a 10-month-old baby girl, began studying at Fresco University in California. Courses that had to be given online due to the coronavirus pandemic. One month after returning to school, one of his teachers announced that during online classes, students were required to turn on their microphones and cameras. But here it is, Marcella recently gave birth to a baby, and she needs to breastfeed. So she sent in to notify her teacher via email that she should turn off her camera during this process.
A mind-blowing reaction
His professor's odious response says enough about his understanding: “Glad to hear you will have your camera and microphone on, but please don't breastfeed your daughter during school hours, that's not what you're supposed to do there ”, he replies. “Do it right after class”. It is well known that infants can patiently wait for so-and-so to finish their chapter before they are entitled to be fed.
Already shaken by her teacher's response, Marcella is far from the end of her surprise. She tells CNN. As the class begins, the teacher does not wait to be able to say Hello ’as he unwraps it without delicacy which he received an email earlier today.weird"From a student who wanted to do things “Inappropriate”At the same time as its course. You will understand, ladies and gentlemen, having to feed your baby is inappropriate!
“I felt humiliated. Then I realized, it is he who should be humiliated ”, she confides in an Instagram post. Marcella felt deeply indignant at such a lack of humanity on the part of a professor. In her post, she rightly says that a child is not like a phone or a television, you can't leave them out or put them on break for class. Fortunately, members of her family had knowledge, and Marcella was able to be properly referred to invoke California law, which requires schools to accommodate students with children, and the needs that children require.
Justice operates
The teacher was of course forced to apologize to the young mother, and the latter was allowed to breastfeed her baby during class if necessary, although she gave up the latter for others. reasons. Asked by the head of the university, the professor said wonderfully: “I think she was offended because I didn't let her breastfeed her baby, like he was going to starve. There are other ways to feed a baby besides breastfeeding him. We can bottle-feed him ”.
Marcella was able to breastfeed her little girl during her other classes, and has never had such problems again. We continue to hope that breastfeeding becomes normal, and that those not affected by breastfeeding no longer give their opinion.